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Updated: May 29, 2025
The true "Reef Knot" is merely the square knot with the bight of the left or right end used instead of the end itself. A better way to join two ropes of unequal diameter is to use the "Open-hand Knot." This is an important and valuable knot for anglers, as the two lines may be drawn apart by taking hold of the ends, A, B, and a third line for a sinker, or extra hook, may be inserted between them.
In the meantime Merritt and Peavey Jo, standing a few feet apart, had been eying each other. Presently the Supervisor stepped forward: "Show me those logs," he ordered. "You better keep back, I t'ink," growled the millman. Merritt stepped forward unconcernedly, but was met with an open-hand push that sent him reeling backward.
Miller aimed a vicious, open-hand blow at young Prescott's face. It didn't land, but, instead, Dick's right hand went up smack! against the fellow's cheek. "Hang your impudence!" roared Miller, angrily. "I'll pay you for that! I'll teach you!" He made a rush at Dick, but two men who had been attracted by the commotion jumped in between them. "Hold on, Miller!" objected one of these passers-by.
I say an open-hand and free competition in everything. How shall we dispose of our poor? Buffum myself can do the work cheaper and better than Mr. Buffum, let him enter at once upon the task. But let the competition be free, nothing covered up. Let us have clean hands in this business, if nowhere else.
We, who sit in our peaceful homes, know little of the hardships to which this faithful public servant has been subjected. Pauperism is ungrateful. Pauperism is naturally filthy. Pauperism is noisy. Mr. Belcher paused until the wave of applause had subsided, and then went on: "An open-hand, free competition: this has been my policy, in a business of whose prosperity you are the best judges.
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