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 and take up your hen-bag, and to shake your hen, pigeon, or any other fowl. This is a noble fancy if well handled.

You must get a double funnel, that is, two funnels soldered one within the other, so that you may at the little end pour in a quantity of wine or water. This funnel you have ready filled beforehand, with whatsoever liquor you please, and call for some of the same kind; then draw your funnel, and setting your middle finger into the bottom of it, bid some body, or else do it yourself, pour it full, and drink it up before them, and turn the broad end of the funnel downwards, saying, "Gentlemen, all is gone;" and in a trice turn yourself about, and in turning, pronounce some terms of art: withdraw your finger from the narrow end, and let the liquor out between the funnels, and it will be thought to be that which you drank out of the funnel, and so you may persuade them it is the same.

Take little figures of glass that are made hollow of an inch and a half high representing little boys, which may be had at the glaze-blowers.-These little images have a small hole in one of legs, and are lighter than water. Immerge into the water contained in the glass A B. This glass is about a foot or 15 inches high, and  with a bladder which is tied fast over  top: a small quantity of air is to be left