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 how a lazy man does the same 

 thing. 



No. 10 is a reef, or square knot. No. 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. No. 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, arid 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. 17 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, 

 by first passing the turns over one end, and then the 



