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upfide down, fix it in the fame manner as 

 before over the (learn, thus will the pods 

 which were before uppermoft be now next 

 the water. Thus when they are fufficlently 

 ftoved, pour them out in a heap on a blan- 

 ket made very hot, and wrap them up 

 clofe, but not fo as to bruife them, that by 

 this continued heat you may be more cer- 

 tain of having killed the chryfalis ; then 

 fill the bafket again, and proceed in the 

 fame manner till all your balls are ftoved. 



When the balls are cold in the cloth 

 where they were wrapped, they fnould be 

 fpread in the fun, or in an airy place to 

 dry any moiilure which they may have 

 gotten from the fleam of the boiling water. 

 If the weather is not favourable for drying 

 them abroad, you may do it by fpreading 

 them on the fhelves of hurdles where the 

 worms were fed, at the fame time open- 

 ing the windows, that the air may have a 

 free pafTage. You may, after they are 

 quite dry, heap all the balls on the (helves 

 of the flands till you have occafion to reel 

 them of; they will be more fecure here 

 than if laid on a floor, where rats and 

 mice may get at them, and will gnaw and 

 deftroy a great many for the fake of the 



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