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Rh Second: Hold the ring thus formed between the teeth where the strings cross, the original fight hand string crossing below the original left hand string. Hold the long loop straight down with the left hand.

Third: Pass the fight index away from you through the long hanging loop, with the palmar surface facing you; then bend the finger toward you and hook it over the lower hanging string of the small ring held in the mouth (Fig. 789). Move

the right hand to the right on the near side of the right hanging string of the long loop, and put a twist on the loop held by the right index, by turning the finger to the right and up so that the palmar surface faces you.

Fourth: Move the right hand to the left, and put the right index (with its back from you) away from you through the long hanging loop; then place its tip on the tip of the nose (Fig. 790); release the loop held by the teeth, at the same time pulling down the end of the long hanging loop and protruding the tongue. The string should then come free from the right index.

It is very evident that the twist you put in the right index loop (in the Fourth movement) untwists the cross in the ring held by the teeth.