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pair, place them on your left middle finger, and proceed thus through- 
out the series, the finger in question gradually moving more and more 
to the right to receive each successive pair of strands, On completion 
of the row replace the finger with a mesh stick (1), press this well 
down onto the row just completed so as to get it tight as well as level, 
and then push it up toward the top of the frame and leave it there. 
This mesh stick is a smooth, flat piece of kokerit longer than the 
width of the sling and yet shorter than the portion of upper crossbar 
between the diagonals of the frame. It is about one-half inch broad 
and one-eighth inch thick. . 
486. Insert left middle finger into the space already made for it 
by the mesh stick, but below it, thus separating a front from a back 
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layer of strands, all of them in pairs. Starting from the right (fig. 
215), place the first pair of front strands on the right middle finger, 
and, holding the second pair of front strands to the outer, i. e., right 
side (with right thumb and index), pick up (with left thumb and 
index) the first pair of back strands to the left and in front of the 
second pair of front strands (which is now dropped by right thumb 
and index) and place them on the right middle finger. Similarly, 
pick up the second pair of back strands and, passing it to the left 
and in front of the third pair of front strands, slip it onto right 
middle finger, which is moving more and more to the left to receive 
each successive pair of back strands. On completion of the row re- 
