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lifting up the lid as before. If the eyes are mot 
fufficiently protuberant, you may introduce more 
cotton by the orifice, through which the threads lead; 
and when you have by this means fixed the eyes 
properly, tye the ends of the filk, and cut them off. 
There is another method of fetting the eyes, which 
is by introducing the beads by the orifice in the roof 
of the mouth, and when they are placed, fluffing 
cotton through the fame pafiage to keep them firmly 
in their places. The flop of cotton mud now be 
taken out of the throat, and fome of the fame 
material thruftdown very carefully by little at a time, 
with a quill, to fupport the neck in its plumpnefs 
when it becomes dry. We now come to the me- 
thods of placing and retaining the birds in the atti- 
tudes we would have them ; and firfi, we muff 
provide the legs with wires fufficient to fupport the 
weight of the body, which is done in this manner. 
Take a brafs or iron wire of a proper thicknefs, and 
made fharp at the point ; which run through the foot 
up the leg and thigh, through the cavity of the body, 
on the infide of the wooden bread:, and fo up the 
neck, and out at the upper part of the head, juft 
above the bill. The point being then made very 
flender, and turned back like a hook, take hold 
of the other end of the wire below the foot, and 
draw it back till the hocked point has fixed in 
the head, and by it you may adjufl the length 
and pofition of the neck and head. (N. B. the 
wire which is put through the other foot and leg, 
&c. need not extend to the head, half way along 
the body will be fufficient). Next prepare a piece of 
wire for fupporting the tail ; this muft be about two- 
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