25§ THE CULTURE 



which you defign in the thread. It might 

 therefore be convenient in the beginning of 

 the thread to put a few more pods than 

 you intended to continue, v/hich will foon 

 be reduced to the proper number. 



As foon as the pods begin to give the 

 thread freely, the reel is turned with a 

 quicker motion, and the fame thing which, 

 as I mentioned before, regulates the heat 

 of the water, v/ill alfo regulate the mo- 

 tion of the reel j for if the pods leap up 

 often, and beat againfl: the llop-wire, the 

 motion of the real mull be flackened, and 

 if the thread comes off in burrs, it mull 

 be turned quicker. And of this the fpin- 

 ner, v/ho has her eye upon the balls and 

 thread, muil, as flie fees occafion, apprize 

 the reeler -, and at the fame time the fire 

 mufc be increafed or diminifhed, that the 

 reel may be allowed a proper motion, 

 which ought to be as quick as may be, 

 without endangering the breaking of the 

 thread, or hurrying the ipinner, fo that 

 {he cannot add frefli pods as fail as the old 

 ones are ended. 



While the reel is turning, the fpinner 

 is continually adding freih pods to each 

 thread as fafl as fhe can find the ends, not 

 -waiting till fome of the number flie be- 

 gan 



