2i6 THE CULTURE 



kept in the bed, or between pillows. It 

 may therefore be of advantage to open the 

 bodies now and then in a warm place, and 

 flir the eggs that the frefh air may have 

 accefs, arid the eggs, by fdrring them, en- 

 joy an equal degree of warmth 5 but they 

 mufl: be expofed only a very fhort time, 

 left they cool too much. 



It would be eafy to make a communi- 

 cation between the external air and the 

 box, by means of a fmall reed or a few 

 quills, and the air which palled through 

 fuch a tube, would be fufficiently warmed 

 by the pillows before it came into the box :,. 

 fuch a tube might alfo be fixed to the top 

 of a little box, fitted to keep eggs in a 

 perfon's bofom or pocket, and then there 

 would be no occafion for having fuch box 

 pricked with holes to admit the air thro* 

 the bag which is in it, as I mentioned in 

 the method of hatching the eggs ; and the 

 box being clofe, and only communicating 

 with the outward air by means of its tube, 

 theie v»^ouid be no fear of the perfons per- 

 fpiration or fweat hurting the eggs. A 

 litde tube of leather kept open by rings, 

 which could be cut out ot a quill, would 

 bend in any direction, either out of the 



bofon; 



