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To soak sand

You need to have a big basin full of water to
q soak the molds to open them, a
tankard full of common water, a
lead bowl for soaking your sand, a small
wooden spoon to collect the soaked sand in the
bowl. The big basin ispour
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To make handles for your large oil brushes, if you do
not have large enough feather quills, take two of them,
& split them & join them together.


Decoction of sands

Already mentioned.


Molding en noyau. Mixture of sand

Having reheated your sand, namely the plaster, the
alum de plume & the brick, & having
passed them finely through the sieve#, mix them this way, take four parts of
plaster, two of brick, & one of alum de
plume. Mix them all together with your hands,
qu’il in such a way that one cannot discern one from
the other. With your sand ready, you need to kill the animal that you
want to mold de in this way.

# except for the alum de plume which
should be ground in a mortar.


Putting to death the animal for molding

You need to be careful to not wound it in taking it. And having put
it in a glass bottled with
bran, or in a barrelfull half full of
fresh & damp earth, if you want to stock them or keep them a
long time, give them live frogs & not dead ones
to eat. For if you keep them without feeding them, they wither &
grow thin, & have long wrinkled skins. Thus the best would be to
mold it as soon as apres possible
apre after it has been taken. But before, put it to
death it in this way. Place it in a clean bottle or vessel so
that it collects no dust. And put inside such a quantity of good
vinegar & urine that it can be covered. And shake it
& torment it therein until it is dead, which will be in one
hour or a half hour. But if you are in a
hurry


To know if it is quite dead, take it out of the vinegar and take
it by the tail. If it moves it, do not mold it for it still has feeling,
& when piercing it, it would retract & spoil the mold.

Water snakes hardly bite.

