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with each short part around each long part. The knots 

 are then drawn tight where they are made ; then upon 

 pulling on the long ends the two ordinary knots will 

 slide together, when they should be well shaken while 

 under strain, as and for the purpose above set forth. 

 This is known as the " single water-knot." The " double 

 water - knot " is generally used for this purpose, since 

 then it is claimed the ends can be cut off as close as pos- 

 sible without danger of slipping, and this is true. It is 

 tied in the same way as the single water - knot, except 

 that each short part is passed twice around the neighbor- 

 ing long parts instead of but once, and the end of each 

 short part is passed through both the loops so formed. 



Fig. 24. 



Till within the last five years I always used the double 

 water-knot, but then disliking its size and obtrusiveness, 

 I turned to the single water-knot, and have employed 

 that with entire satisfaction ever since. There is un- 

 questionably more margin for carelessness to escape the 

 usual penalty in the double, than in the single knot. 

 But with care, not forgetting when straining the twin 

 knots (if I may use that expression) together to shake 

 them well, the single water-knot is perfectly safe and by 

 no means so bulky. 



It is exceedingly difficult verbally so- to describe a 

 knot, that one entirely unacquainted with it can at the 



