(1) Cradle
Synonym: Sang-tou-tou-ki = cover for a hearse (Korea); le berceau (France); Wasser (Brabant).
First: "A" takes the string and passes the four fingers of each hand through the untwisted loop, and separates the hands; then with the thumb and index of the right hand he turns the left near string away from him across the left palm, and then toward him across the back of the left hand, bringing the string to the right between
Fig. 741.
the left thumb and index. In the same manner, he turns the right near string once around the right hand. There are now two strings across the back of each hand and a single string across each palm.
Second: Opening A (picking up the palmar string with the middle finger). There is now a loop on each middle finger and two strings across the back of each hand; the "Cradle" being formed by a straight near string, a straight far string, and the crossed strings of the middle finger loops (Fig. 741).
(2) Soldier's Bed
Synonyms: Pa-tok-hpan = chess board (Korea); nekomata = a mountain cat into which a domestic cat is supposed to transform itself (Japan); die Schere (Brabant); les ciseaux (France); church window (England); fish pond (America).
"B" puts his left thumb away from "A" under the right near middle finger string and his left index away from "A" under the left near middle finger string, and then, by bringing the thumb and index together, picks up between their tips the two near middle finger strings just where they cross at the near side of the figure. In the same manner he picks up the two far middle finger strings, by putting the right thumb toward "A" under the right far middle finger string, and the right index toward "A" under the left far middle finger string, then bringing
