2!o THE AP.TIST's ASSISTANT.

If you would have a {mail infect to ftand upon a
leaf, then dip the ends of its legs in turpentine, and
put it on the plant before you dip it; if it is a fpider
or grafshopper. or any other infeft which you think
will be too ftrong for the turpentine, kill it firft in
vinegar, and after that put its legs in the turpentine,
and fix it to the leaf of the plant.

To caft figures or medals in brimftone :—Melt in a
glazedpipkin, half a pound of brimftone over a gentle
fire, with this mix half a pound of fine vermillion,
and when you have cleared the top, take it off the
fire, ftir it well together, and it will diffolve like oil;
then caft it into the mould, after being firft anointed
with oil. let it cool, and take it out ; but in cafe your
figure fhould change to a yellowifh colour, you mull
only wipe it over with aquafortis, and it will look
like the fineft coral.

How to form and caft all manner of fmall birds,
frogs, fifh, &c.—Take an earthen, iron, or tin ring,
which is high and wide enough to hold the animal
you defign to caft, and fet a ring upon a clean board,
or pafteboard ; then lay the animal upon it, and caft
the fine mixture of plaifter pretty thick over it, the
reft of the vacancy you may fill up with a coarfer
plaifter, even to the brim. When this is done, and
pretty well dried, turn your ring, and putting a little
fhort ftick clofe to the bodv of the animal, caft a
cruft on that fide, to cover that part which lay clofe
to the board, and when dry, burn it, and go about
the cafting as direeled ; after you have burned or
glowed it thoroughly, you muft dry the afiies out of
the hole which is made by the little ftick, and this
you may ufe for your inlet,

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