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Mr. W. W. Rouse Ball 



[March 12, 



string, and with its back pick up from below the next string-, and 

 return. Fourth : Bend each little-finger towards you, and with its 

 back pick up the next string. Fifth: Grasp with the left hand all 

 the strings in the centre of the figure where they cross, pass this 

 bunch of strings from the palmar side between the right thumb and 

 index-finger so that the bunch lies along the arm, with the left 

 thumb and index-finger take hold of the two loops on the right 



A Tent-Flap. 



thumb, draw them over the tip of the right thumb, let the bunch of 

 strings also slip over to the right thumb to the palmar side, and then 

 replace the two loops on the right thumb ; make a similar movement 

 with the other hand. Lastly : Lift the wrist loops over the hands, 

 letting them fall on the palmar sides, rub the hands together, separate 

 the hands, and the figure will appear.] 



The two designs, represented in Figs. 3 and 4, will serve as 

 examples of figures in Class (3. The first of them is supposed to 



Fig. 3. — A Max Climbing a Tree. 



represent a Man Climbing a Tree, his arms and feet (or perhaps 

 his feet and tree-band) clasping the tree trunk. It is derived from 

 the Blacks in Queensland ; since only a drawing of the design was 



