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STRING FIGURES 



[CH. XV 



[These movements are a common beginning, and are known as 

 Opening A. Opening B is obtained in the same way, save that, in 



Figure ii. Opening A. 



the second part of the Opening, the right palmar string is taken 

 up by the left index before the left palmar string is taken up by 

 the right index. In most of the figures described below it is im- 

 material whether we begin with the Opening A or Opening B.] 

 (2) Bend each little-finger down towards you over four strings, 

 with its back pick up the next string, and return. (3) Lift up 



Figure iii. A Man Climbing a Tree. 



the lower of the two loops on the left little-finger, pull it over 

 the upper loop, then over the tip of the finger, and then drop it 

 on the palm of the hand : do the same with the right hand. 

 [This is known as Navahoing the loops.] (4) Bend each index- 

 finger over the palmar string and between the two strings of 



