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Rh string (Fig. 401). Now, by turning each hand down and then up toward you under the near thumb string, you can put this string on the backs of the four fingers. Unclose the hands (Fig. 402).

Third: Pass each thumb up on the far side of the string which, passing between the thumb and index, crosses the back of the four fingers, and let the loop slip down on the wrist (Fig. 403).

Fourth: Incline the hands slightly toward each other, and keeping the strings tight, turn the palms away from you, and pass each thumb under both the near and