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arbours where they are fpinning ; for this 

 would ilop and interrupt their work, fo 

 that fome would defift from making any 

 more filk, and the pods of others v/ould be 

 ill-formed, and difficult to reel off; for 

 which reafon you muft always take care, 

 in whatever way you are employed about 

 thofe worms which are fpinning, to fhake 

 or m.oleil them as little as you can. 



As yoa were directed, in feeding the 

 worms, to keep thofe which were of the fame 

 age on the fame hurdle, fo you fhould alfo, 

 in diftributing them as they grow large, al- 

 ways have kept them on the fame fland, that 

 they m.ay fpin at the fame time, fuppofmg 

 that you have many ftands of hurdles. 



When moffc of the worms that lie on 

 any hurdles have climbed the branches 

 in order to fpin their pods, you will gene- 

 rally have fome on each hurdle, which, 

 though they are ready for fpinning, yet are 

 either too lazy, or too infirm to climb the 

 branches, and remain below, wafting their 

 filk among the fhreds of leaves j thefe 

 fliould be colle(Sl:ed from all the feveral 

 hurdles where they lie, and fhould be 

 placed on beds of branches ftrowed pretty 

 thick on fome Ipare flielf, or other convcr 



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