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temper them well with your finger, and fpread 

 a little of it on a piece of thin white paper, 

 big enough to take both fides of your Fly i 

 when it begins to be clammy under your fin- 

 ger the paper is in proper order to take the 

 feathers from the wings of the Fly ^ then lay 

 the gummed fide on the wings, and it will take 

 them up -, then double your paper fo as to have 

 all the wings between the paper ; then lay it 

 on a table, prefling it clofe with your fingers ; 

 and you may rub it gently with fome fmooth 

 hard thing ; then open the paper, and take out 

 the wings, which will come forth tranfparent 

 The down of the upper and under fide of the 

 wings, (licking to the gummed paper, form a 

 juft likenefs of both fides of the wings in their 

 natural fiiapes and colours. 



The nicety of taking off Flies depends on 

 a jufl degree of moiilure of the gummed 

 paper ; for if it be too wet, all will be 

 blotted and confufed -, and if too dry, your 

 paper will flick fo fad together, that it will 

 be torn in feparation. When you have open- 

 ed your gummed papers, and they are dry, 



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