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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 -, 

 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 y then lay it 

 on a table, prefiing 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, fi:icking to the gummed paper, form a 

 juft likenefs of both fides of the wings in their 

 natural lhapes and colours. 



The nicety of taking off Flies depends on 

 a juft degree of moiftiire of the gummed 

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

 blotted and confufed -, and if too dry, your 

 paper will fi:ick fo faft together, that it will 

 be torn in feparation. When you have open- 

 ed your gummed papers, and they are dry. 



