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the orthodox crack, but it is, of course, actually made 

 rapidly. 



Now for the bastard, and, it might almost be said, 

 the common or garden crack. 



No, it is not worthy of the name of crack — let us 

 call it rather "flick," for that is all it is. Fig. 3 

 gives an attempt to show the sort of minor circular 





Fig. 2. Cracking a Whip, second position. 



course (indicated by the arrows) followed by the 

 end of the crop (not by the lash in this case), and 

 ending with the jerk at its starting-point a, which 

 produces the " flick," and makes about as much 

 noise as the striking of a match or the firing of a 

 paper cap in a boy's toy gun. 



The difference between the crack and the " flick" 



