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Fourth: Put each hand up from below completely through the loops held by the little finger (Fig. 269); bend the hands down away from you, with the palms facing each other and the fingers pointing downward, and pick up from the near side

with the backs of both little fingers the long hanging loop, drawing it out away from you under and past the far wrist string. Turn the hands with the fingers pointing upward (Fig. 270).

You now have a lower loop held by the mouth and passing around both wrists to become the lower far string of the figure; and a triangle produced by a string on each side passing from I the mouth and running between the ring and little finger to become the upper far string of the figure. The original index loops hang down front the mouth.

Fifth: Still holding the strings in the mouth, and keeping the loops securely on the little fingers, turn the palms slightly toward you, and, bending each little finger down over the near little finger string, pick up from below on the

back of the finger the diagonal string running from the mouth to the little finger, and return the little finger to its usual position, drawing the diagonal string upward and outward through the little finger loop (Fig. 271).