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far string which passes directly from thumb to thumb), draw it down, and hold it by closing the ring and little fingers over it on the palm (Fig. 287).

Fifth: Turn the hands so that the thumbs, index fingers and middle fingers point away from you; then bending the index and middle

finger pass the middle finger toward you through the thumb loops, and pass the index toward you into the two upper thumb loops and then between the two upper near thumb strings and the lower near thumb string (the near string which passes directly from thumb

to thumb) (Fig. 288). Now, holding this lower near thumb string between the index and middle finger, draw these fingers away from you, and, by turning the index down and then away from you, take the string up on the tip of the finger.