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He knows, as if by instinct, what sort of knot should be used for this, and what sort for the other whether a "reef-knot" or a "bowline," a "diamond" or an "overend" whether a "clove-hitch," a "clinch," or a "cat's paw" all these modes of splicing and trying, with five times as many more, are secrets only known to the sailor.

I made a clove-hitch round his tail, d'ye see, and got the end of it slung over the spar and fastened, so as I couldn't lose him. Then I set to work and I ate him in a week right up to his back fin, and I drank the rain that fell on my coat, and when I was picked up by the Gracie of Gloucester, I was that fat that I could scarce climb aboard.

My father had taught me to make a flat-knot, a bowline, a clove-hitch, two half-hitches, and such sort of things; and I got through with both a long and a short splice tolerably well.

Nullius, nullius, nullius. My memory is excellent, gentlemen; nominative, penna; genitive, pennæ, and so on." "Now, Sir Jarvy, since you're veering out your Latin, I should likes to know if you can tell a 'clove-hitch' from a 'carrick-bend?" "That is an extraordinary question, Galleygo, to put to an old seaman!"

Is there any more to it?" "Know the composition of the National flag and how to fly it," read Rand. "I guess I can get ten on that, all right," remarked Pepper. "And tie four of the following knots: Reef, sheet-bend, clove-hitch, bow line, middleman's, fisherman's, sheepshank," finished Rand. "We can pass on that all right," commented Pepper. "Say, what time is it?

Newman had finished undoing the rope at his end, and now he stepped back into the doorway. I've never been sure, but I think Newman did it purposely. The rope's end was spliced about the handle of the chest, and when he cast the rope loose, it trailed upon the floor. Newman left the bight turned about the bunk-post, and in such fashion that it would tighten into a clove-hitch.