Page:String Figures and How to Make Them.djvu/308

Rh strings tight (Fig. 620). You now have a loop on each wrist, a loop on each thumb and a loop on each little finger.

Fourth: Holding the loops securely on the thumbs and little fingers, turn the hands with the fingers pointing down, and shake the wrist loops off the hands. Separate the hands, and restore them to their usual position (Fig. 621).

Fifth: Pass 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, and return the thumb to its position (Fig. 622).