274 FLIES AND KNOTS. 
'No. 6 is a double water knot. The latter are used for 
tying lengths of gut together. But recollect that before 
a knot is made in gut it must be wet, and had better be 
soaked for some time in warm water. In using the 
double knot, the ends need not be whipped down. 
No. 7 shows how a dandy fastens his droppers to the 
leader. No. 8 shows bow a lazy man does the same 
thing. 
No. 10 is a reef, or square knot. JSTo. 11 is a granny 
knot, and you had better not knot that knot as a reef 
knot at sea. The former never slips, and yet never jams ; 
the latter always slips and always jams. E"©. 12 is a 
bowline, the best knot of all. 
No. 13 is a wall. No. 14, a wall and crown ; follow 
the strands round with the ends, and it is a double wall 
and crown. No. 15, a Mathew Walker, is made by 
unlaying the strands a sufficient distance, and carrying 
one end underneath and through its own bight, then the 
next underneath through the bight of the first and its 
own bight, and then the third underneath through the 
bight of the first and second and then its own. No. 16 
shows the first strand passed ; No. IT is the finished 
knot. A diamond knot. No. 18, is made by laying the 
strands back along the rope, then passing the first end 
over the second through the bight of the third, the 
second over the third and through the first, and so on, 
drawing all tight. It may be crowned like a wall. 
No. 19 is a sheet bend. No. 20, a studding sail bend. 
No. 21, a rolling hitch. No. 22, a timber hitch. No. 23, 
a clove hitch. A whipping is put on as shown by No. 24, 
})j first passing the turns over one end, and then the 
