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MOUNTED INSTRUCTION 

 Method of Stretching the Picket Line 



Figure 14. Attaching 

 end of picket line. Tie 

 used on spoke just be- 

 low hub is a clove 

 hitch. 



Figure 16. Stretching picket line between carriages. Cannoneer marked 

 X is taking up the slack provided by the lifting of the left wheel of the carriage 

 and by pulling on the line, and is holding all tlic line he gets by means of a 

 round turn on the felloe. 



