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CHAP. IV. 



THE BEE DRESS 



JLS to be made of thin bonking cloth, which 

 may be bought at about fixpence a-yard. It 

 is to be fewed to the brim of an old hat, 

 when reduced to two inches and a half in 

 width ; the cloth is to hang down a foot in 

 breadth all round the head. A broad tape 

 is to be prepared, long enough to tie the 

 cloth, clofe round the neck, under the chin. 

 But as the nofc, chin, and neck, would be 

 liable to htjiung through the mefhes, there- 

 fore, to fecure thofe parts, fome oiled linen 

 mud: be ftitched oppofite the face and neck, 

 within fide, leaving two inches and a half 

 free, oppofite the eyes. 



Or, a kind of hood of the like cloth may 

 be made of fuch a breadth, that from the 

 bottom of the crown of any hat in ufe, it 

 may hang a foot below the rim. It is to be 

 gathered up to a ferret binding, to let the 

 crown through, and encircle it clofe round. 

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