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When your Lime is cold, take your Rod^ and warm 

 them a little over the Hre ^ then take your Lime and 

 wind it about the tops of your Rods, then draw your 

 Rodsafunder one from the other, and clofc them again, 

 continually plying and working them together, till by 

 fmearingone upon another, you have equally bcftowed 

 on each Rod a fufficient proportion of Lime. 



If you lime any Strings, do it when the Lime is ve- 

 ry hot and at the thinnell, befmearing the Strings ori 

 all fidesj by folding them together and unfolding them 

 again. 



If you lime Straws, it muft be done likewife when 

 the Lime is very hot, doing a great quantity together, 

 as many as you can vvcll grafp in your hand, toiling 

 and -working them before the fire till they are all be- 

 fmear'd, every Straw having his due proportion of 

 Lime: having fo done, put them up in cafes of Leather 

 till you have occafion to ufe them. 



Now to prevent the freezing of your Lime either 

 as it is on Twigs, Budies, or Straws, you murt adde a 

 quarter as much of the Oyl called Tetrohum as of your 

 Gapons-greafe, mix them well together,and then work 

 it on your Rods, &c. and fo it will ever keep fupple, 

 tough, and gentle, and will not be prejudiced ihould it 

 freeze never fo hard. 



The heft and moH Experienced way of making 

 Water ^Bird-lime. 



Uy what quantity you think fit of the ftrongeft 



Bird-lime you can procure , and wa(h it as long 



in a clear Spring-water till you find it very pliable, and 

 the hardnefs thereof removed j then beat out the wa- 

 ter extraordinary well, till you cannot perceive a drop 

 to appear, then dry it well s after this, put it into a 

 Pot made of Earth, and mingle therewith Capons- 



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