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262 separate the hands; turn the palms toward each other, and straighten the little fingers. Draw the strings tight (Fig. 6o6). You now have a loop on each wrist and a loop on each little finger.

Second: Holding the loops securely on each little finger, by bending the four fingers on the palm, turn the hands down (Fig. 6o7), and let each wrist loop slip

off the wrist, and, as it slips, transfer it to the thumb, by catching with the back of the thumb the near wrist string (Fig. 6o8 as seen from above). Put the hands in the usual position.

Third: Bend each thumb away from you over the far thumb string, and pick up from below, on the back of the thumb, the near little finger string (Fig. 609), and return the thumb to its position.

Fourth: Pick up from below, on the tip of each index, the far thumb string (not the palmar string) (Fig. 6io), and straighten the index. Press each thumb