Fourth: Pass the left thumb from below into the upper left index loop, and separate the thumb from the index in order to make the loop wider (Fig. 696).
Fifth: Bend the right middle, ring and little fingers toward you over all the loops on the fight hand, and close these fingers on the palm to hold the strings in
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place while you gather together, close to the left hand, between the right thumb and index all the loops on the left hand, by putting the right thumb below the loops and closing the right index down on them (Fig. 697). Now withdraw the left hand from all the loops, and with the right thumb and index turn the loops over, away from you (so that the right thumb comes on top of the loops), and put the left thumb and index back into the loop, as they were before (Fig. 698), except that now the left thumb loop goes on the left index and the left index loop goes on the
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left thumb and the loop common to both thumb and index is now the lower loop. Draw the hands apart and repeat the same movement on the right hand, as follows: Bend the left middle, ring and little fingers toward you over all the loops on the left hand, and close these fingers down on the palm to hold the strings in place while
