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In their new environment, it had the uncanny and sinister hiss of some monstrous snake. "Everybody happy?" Gray demanded coolly. "I am clinging to a tree trunk," answered Elsie. "Bully for you. Make fast with a piece of rope. But be careful to provide a slip-knot, in case we have to sheer off in a hurry. Can you manage that?" "Quite well."
But would Alcatraz live among those sweeping treetrunks and come within casting distance of the rope? Even if he did, would the rope catch around that head of which only the nose and eyes were showing? Even if it caught could the stallion be drawn to shoal water without being strangled by the slip-knot?
Next a single wire, somewhat thicker, was used, and set up nearly in the same place; but it broke again. Finally, two strands of medium size, placed side by side, but only twisted once that is, just enough to keep them together were employed. The lesser loop the slip-knot, as it might be called was at the same time eased in order to run quicker and take a closer grip.
"Let me go, massa," cried Tom, rapidly throwing off his clothes, and beginning, without further ado, to fasten the rope round his own waist. "Jis see him tight not a slip-knot, massa. Tom Baraka swim tro' worse seas dan dis on coast ob Africa, as you know. Stick de oar in de sand. Tie de rope to it, Massa Pack; you pay out, and off him go."
They soon became very quick and expert at the tying, and their well-worn wedding-rings, telling of a busy life, would flash brightly in the sunshine as they tenderly coaxed the brittle bines round the base of the poles, securing them with the rush tied in a special slip-knot, so that it easily expanded as the bine enlarged.
Again, if ever I tried to make an entry as to some material which had been used, Ossip would approach me, and, for instance, say: "Is it jotted down, eh? Then let me look at it." And, eyeing the notebook with a frown, he would add vaguely: "What a nice hand you write!" "For example, that scoop there what does IT say?" "It is the word 'Good." "'Good'? But what a slip-knot of a thing!
I will go into the cow-house with a rope and a slip-knot at the end of it, get upon the beam above, and drop it over her horns as she's busy with the calf, which she will be as soon as you let her in. I shall pass the end of the rope outside, for you to haul up when I am ready, and then we shall have her fast, till we can secure her properly.
This end, being thus made straight, would naturally be left longer than the other, which is twisted round and round it. This tendency the performer counteracts by drawing it partially back through the slip-knot at each pretended tightening.
A snare, you know, is a string with a slip-knot at the end of it; and if an animal puts his head or one of his paws into this slip-knot and goes on without noticing it, the string is pulled tight and the poor creature cannot get free. Was it right or wrong of the hunter to set the snare? Do you think the cat was wrong to lie in wait for the mouse? Exactly what the hunter expected happened.
I took out the rope from under my jacket, and got upon a three-legged stool, and putting the rope first over the beam in the ceiling, then made a slip-knot, and brought it down round my neck, taking good care to have it short enough that it would not choke me, and in this way I stood upon the stool for some considerable time, groaning and struggling, and making every kind of noise that might make her believe that I was choking or strangling; but still Mary sat deliberately smoking her pipe with the utmost coolness, and seemed to take no notice of me or what I was doing.
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