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He stopped to give Pink's exhausted horse a sympathetic pat on the shoulder, and came on, grinning a little with the comers of his mouth tipped down. "Here's what's left of the hobbles the buckskin wore," he said, holding up the cut loops of a figure-eight rope hobble. "Kinda speaks for itself, don't it?" They crowded around to inspect this plain evidence of stealing.
His four companions are coming to his help, one armed with a bow, the others carrying spears and huge shields, two of them of the typical Mycenæan figure-eight shape. Only the first lion awaits their onset, the other two are in full flight. The whole work is characterized by extraordinary vivacity; but it is the technique that is of interest.
The great champion whom David met and slew in the vale of Elah was a Cretan, a Pelasgian, one of the Greeks before the Greeks, wearing the bronze panoply with the feather-crested helmet which his people had adopted in their later days in place of the old leathern cap and huge figure-eight shield.
The end A is then looped back over the end B, and the end B is slipped through loop C and drawn tight. This is a variation of the figure-eight knot, already described, and is used where there is too much rope, or where a simple knot is desired to prevent the rope running through an eye, ring, or tackle-block. It is then drawn taut and the ends seized to the standing part if desired.
=The Parcel Slip-Knot= This is the simplest of all knots to start with in tying up a parcel. If this does not make the knot large enough use the figure-eight knot. The single tie is sufficient in ordinary cases. Draw the tie up close to the knot at the end; the knot prevents it from slipping off.
He unloosed the half hitches that held it to the cleat, threw off all but one figure-eight turn, and let the anchor line run out slowly. When he estimated about fifty feet had run through, he put on more figure eights around the cleat, then dropped half hitches over to secure the line. Once more he reached out and held the taut line. It didn't seem to be slipping.
Use the figure-eight knot to make a knot on the end of a rope or to prevent the end of the strands from untwisting. This knot is not difficult to untie. 47 Loop. 48 Round turn. =Bow-Line Knot= To form a loop that will not slip and yet may be easily untied use the bow-line knot. When the loop is not fastened to anything use the overhand method of tying it.
"They'll still insist that we define sapience." The communication screen began buzzing. Baby Fuzzy looked up disinterestedly, and then went back to trying to untie a figure-eight knot he had tied. Jack shoved himself to his feet and put the screen on. It was Max Fane, and for the first time that he could remember, the Colonial Marshal was excited.
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