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To make a three-plied cord, cut three equal lengths of thread rather longer than the required cord is to be, as it shortens in the twisting. Make a loop at each end of the thread, or, better still, attach tiny metal rings at the ends.
"And after four or five years Ayllon, with the three-plied rope of pearls under his doublet, came back. "The Cacica was ready for him. She was really the Chief Woman of Cofachique, the Cacique was only her husband, and she was obeyed as no ordinary woman," said the Brown Pelican. "She was not an ordinary woman," said the Snowy Egret, fluffing her white spray of plumes.
They were looking for another Peru. "Toward the last, Ayllon had to sleep in his ship at night so jealous his captains were of him. He had a touch of the swamp fever which takes the heart out of a man, and finally he was obliged to show them the three-plied rope of pearls to hold them.
His puritanic hat, the emblem of that of Ralpho in the prints to Hudibras, or, as he called it, his felt umbrella, was set most knowingly on one side of the head, as if it had been a Spanish hat and feather; his straight square-caped sad-coloured cloak was flung gaily upon one shoulder, as if it had been of three-plied taffeta, lined with crimson silk; and he paraded his huge calf-skin boots, as if they had been silken hose and Spanish leather shoes, with roses on the instep.
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