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riot be worth much ; but I prefer a row of brass rings sewn 

 a foot apart along the top of the sheet, through which is run 

 a piece of the finest and best sash-line, turned at each end 

 over a grummet ring, the line being long enough for the two 

 rings to come an inch or two beyond the corners of the sheet. 

 One corner of the sheet is tied up to its ring with a bit of 

 twine ; the other corner to such a position that when the line 

 is stretched, it slightly stretches the sheet also. The sides 

 of the sheet have sewn to them, every 18 inches, eyeletted 

 brass hooks like fig. 69, which can readily be made with a 

 pair of pliers. I also have a pair of small 

 wooden pulley blocks, each with an iron hook 

 for fixing ; and two long pieces of the same 

 best sash-line already mentioned, each with 

 a hook at one end. FlG 69 



In getting up the sheet, each piece of line 

 is rove half-way through one of the pulleys, so that both ends 

 will hang down to the floor when this is raised ; and both 

 pulleys are then hooked on to the eyes fixed up aloft, with the 

 lines hanging down. When both lines are thus arranged, the 

 sheet is placed underneath, and so far opened that only the long 

 folds across remain unfolded. (A sheet should be always folded 

 up first into long folds all across it, and only then folded over 

 short, so that when these short folds are undone, it lies on 

 the floor its full width). The two hooks are hooked into the 

 grummet rings at the ends of the top line, the lines are hauled 

 up till this is stretched reasonably tight, and then the lines are 

 made securely fast to the hooks fixed in the floor. 



The final step is to take two long pieces of stout twine, and, 

 fastening or hooking one of these into the top hook on each 

 side of the sheet, * lace ' downwards on each side between the 

 hooks and the line (which should be if possible about a foot 

 outside the sheet), thus drawing the sheet out tight and flat. 

 Finally, we draw down the two bottom corners, and fast n 

 them to the hooks below in the floor. It is as well even to 



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