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Beud forward your body and biiug the baud, clinched, in the manner 

 of taking something nnder your arm, at the same time looking around 

 as if to see that no one has seen your deed. [Gross.) 



Take anything spoken of and put the hand in the pocket, and turn 

 and run away. (Larson.) 



Use the hand as if to take something, at the same time look around 

 as if to see if somebody comes. {Zeii/ler.) 



Italian sifin. — The open hand held before the face, and the fingers, be- 

 ginning with the little one, turned round in a wheel, signifies a robbery. 

 {Buthr.) 



A horse. 



To expi-ess horse-stealing they saw with the right luiud down upon the 

 extended fingers of the left, thereby denoting rope-cutting. (Burton.) 



Left hand horizontal, flat, in front and as high as the elbow. Right 

 hand arched, joined, thumb resting near end of forefinger, downward 

 (similar to V), and passed slowly under the left, backward toward the 

 elbow and quickly across to its own side, to show crawling up to a 

 horse, cutting its lariat and making off quickly. (Dakota III.) 



iSteainboat. 



The sign for 8iiioke is made with the right hand extended upward 

 at the side and above the head, and then with the mouth make the 

 pufling sound in imitation of the sound from the escape-pipes. (Dako- 

 ta I.) " From the puffing sound of the escape-pipes, which can be heard 

 a considerable distance on a still, day, and the smoke from the smoke- 

 stack." 



Make the sign for floater, hy placing the flat right hand before the 

 face, pointing upward and forward, the back forward, with the wrist as 

 high as the nose ; then draw it down and inward toward the chin ; then 

 with botii hands indicate the outlines of a horizontal oval figure from 

 before the body back to near the chest (being the outline of the deck) ; 

 then place l)Oth flat hands, pointing forward, thumbs higher tlian the 

 outer edges, and push them forward to arm's length (illustrating the for- 

 ward motion of the vessel). (Kaioica 1; Comanche III; Apache II; 

 Wichita II.) 



$i»finsy. Covetous, Cowardly, Ac. 



First lay the palm of the right hand, liorizontal, over the left breast; 

 then make the sign for Auger, by carrying the fist (B 2) downward, 

 in front of the body, from the tace toward the left to the level of the 

 heart, but not with any emphasis; and then the sign for Good is made 

 by opening the hand, turning it palm downward (S 1), and carrying 



