Handle your Fans,
Unfurl your Fans,
Discharge your Fans,
Ground your Fans,
Recover your Fans,
Flutter your Fans.

By the right Observation of these few plain Words of Command,
a Woman of a tolerable Genius, who will apply herself
diligently to her Exercise for the Space of but one half
Year, shall be able to give her Fan all the Graces that can
possibly enter into that little modish Machine.

But to the end that my Readers may form to themselves a right
Notion of this _Exercise_, I beg leave to explain it to them
in all its Parts. When my Female Regiment is drawn up in
Array, with every one her Weapon in her Hand, upon my giving
the Word to _handle their Fans_, each of them shakes her Fan
at me with a Smile, then gives her Right-hand Woman a Tap
upon the Shoulder, then presses her Lips with the Extremity
of her Fan, then lets her Arms fall in an easy Motion, and
stands in a Readiness to receive the next Word of Command.
All this is done with a close Fan, and is generally learned
in the first Week.

The next Motion is that of _unfurling the Fan_, in which are
comprehended several little Flirts and Vibrations, as also
gradual and deliberate Openings, with many voluntary Fallings
asunder in the Fan itself, that are seldom learned under a
Month's Practice. This part of the _Exercise_ pleases the
Spectators more than any other, as it discovers on a sudden
an infinite Number of _Cupids,_ [Garlands,] Altars, Birds,
Beasts, Rainbows, and the like agreeable Figures, that
display themselves to View, whilst every one in the Regiment
holds a Picture in her Hand.

Upon my giving the Word to _discharge their Fans_, they give
one general Crack that may be heard at a considerable
distance when the Wind sits fair. This is one of the most
difficult parts of the _Exercise_; but I have several ladies
with me who at their first Entrance could not give a Pop loud
enough to be heard at the further end of a Room, who can now
_discharge a Fan_ in such a manner that it shall make a
Report like a Pocket-Pistol. I have likewise taken care (in
order to hinder young Women from letting off their Fans in
wrong Places or unsuitable Occasions) to shew upon what
Subject the Crack of a Fan may come in proper