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22 and return the middle finger back through the index loop to its original position (Fig. 35).

Release the loops from the thumbs and index fingers, and transfer the two loops on each middle finger to the thumb, by putting the thumb from below into the loops and withdrawing the middle finger.

Seventh: In the centre of the figure is a small triangle the base of which is on the far side and is formed by the two strings passing from one little finger to the other; each side of the triangle is formed of the two near thumb strings after they have crossed the corresponding strings from the other thumb (Fig. 36). Pick

up from below on the back of each index the strings forming the corresponding side of the triangle (Fig. 37), and return the index to its position.

You now have two loops on each thumb, two loops on each index, and two loops on each little finger.

'Eighth: Put each middle finger from above through the two index loops, and (as in the Sixth movement) pick up from below on the back of the middle finger the two far thumb strings (Fig. 38), and return the middle finger, through the two index loops (Fig. 39), to its former position.

Ninth: Release the loops from the thumbs and index fingers, and, keeping