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116 To hang up the "Squirrels," pick up on each thumb the straight string crossing the figure (Fig. 257 ) Release the index loops and separate the hands (Fig. 258). The opening movements are interesting modifications of Opening A, and occur, so far as I know, in no other figure.

THE LEASHING OF LOCHIEL'S DOGS

This game is well known in Scotland, Ireland, and England. It has been described by the Rev. John Gray (p. 118, Fig. 4) from the Island of Eriskay, Outer Hebrides; it is also called "Tying Dogs' Feet." In some parts of Ireland, it is known as "Duck's Feet." It is the same as the Cherokee Indian "Crow's Feet." (See Haddon, 5, p. 217.) Dr. W. H. Furness has found it among the Kabyles of Algeria, introduced from France under the name of "Cock's Feet." It is known to the Ulungu of Africa as Umuzwa=a Wooden Spoon. Roth gives a similar pattern from Australia (pl. xii, 1). It closely resembles the "Two Hogans" of the Navaho Indians, just before the completion of that figure.