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When the lash reaches to about b' the motion is 

 reversed, and it comes down again on the Hne 

 c c c' {^ide Fig. 2), which shows what may be 

 called the second position. When it gets to about 

 the neighbourhood of d (the exact point depends 

 on where it is wished the crack should take place, 

 but it must not be on the ground), the arm. which 



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Fig. I. Cracking a Whip, first position. 



has hitherto been somewhat bent, is straightened 

 with the sharpest possible je7'k, and this should 

 produce the pistol-shot-like crack, the sound of 

 which in a covert on a still winter's day we know so 

 well, and which we often try in vain to produce 

 ourselves. 



It has taken a long time to give the pedigree of 



