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webs clipped off, that in laying them the gum 

 may hold them by their fhafts. When you be- 

 gin to lay them, take a pair of fteel pliers to 

 liold the feathers in -, and have fome gum-water, 

 not too thin, and a large pencil ready to moiften 

 the gummed ground-work by little and little as 

 you work it v then lay your feathers on the 

 moiftened parts, which muft not be waterifh, 

 but fomething tacky or clammy to hold the 

 feathers, You fhould prepare a parcel of fmall 

 leaden weights, in the form of fugar-loaves, 

 which you may caft in fand, by firft making 

 holes in its furface v/ith a pointed flick : thefe 

 weights will be neceiïary to fet on the feathers 

 you have newly laid on to hold them to the 

 gum, till they are dry and fixed ; but you mufl 

 be cautious left the gum come through the 

 feathers ; for it not only fmears them, but dries 

 to the bottoms of the weights, and you will be 

 apt to pull off the feathers with the weights^ 

 which will diforder your work. When you 

 have wholly covered your bird with feathers, you 

 muft, with a little thick gum, flick on a piece 

 of paper cut round, of the bignefs, and in the 

 place of the eye, which you muft colour like 



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