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'are purely of a fancy nature. For the purpose of sim])lifying the matter, a 

 few of the more useful and easily-tied knots are here shown. These are all 



Fig. 3.— Running bowline. 



easily tied , and were tied and photographed specially with the view of showing 

 clearly how it is done. For this reason they are not pulled up tight, but were 

 just tied loosely, so as to show as clearly as possible how the ropes "lay" 

 over one another 



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Fig. 4. -Becket, or sheet benJ. 



There are two knots that stand out us useful knots above all others, and 

 these are the " reef " or "square" knot and the " bowline." The reef knot 



