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let it remain till morning. By this time the 

 hornets will be motionlefs ; then taking the 

 bag out, tread upon it, to crufh the neft flat. 

 Turn the neft out upon a parcel of ftraw, 

 which being lighted, will of courfe burn 

 them ; for the water will not kill them, and 

 they will revive. But if poultry are at hand, 

 the cakes of brood may be taken up by a pair 

 of tongs, and laid before the poultry, and 

 they will foon devour the young as a deli- 

 cious feaft. The fame may be done with 

 the brood from wafps' nefts. 



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