Mathematical recreations and essays . e thumbs and index-fingers. There is nowon each hand a string passing from the thumb to the index, and on eachof these strings are two loops, one nearer you than the other. Ninth. Bendeach thumb away from you over the upper string of these nearer Rotate the hands so that the palms face away from you, the fingerspoint up, and the thumbs are stretched as far from the hands as possible. More briefly thus. Opening A. Each thumb over 3 and picks up one. Eachmiddle-finger over 2 and picks up one. Release thumbs. Each thumb overone, under 5, and pic
Mathematical recreations and essays . e thumbs and index-fingers. There is nowon each hand a string passing from the thumb to the index, and on eachof these strings are two loops, one nearer you than the other. Ninth. Bendeach thumb away from you over the upper string of these nearer Rotate the hands so that the palms face away from you, the fingerspoint up, and the thumbs are stretched as far from the hands as possible. More briefly thus. Opening A. Each thumb over 3 and picks up one. Eachmiddle-finger over 2 and picks up one. Release thumbs. Each thumb overone, under 5, and picks up one. Release little-fingers. Take up near string ofeach middle-finger loop, turn it over, and transfer it to tips of correspondingthumb and index-finger. T to loops on thumbs and index-fingers. Placethumbs on upper strings of near loops. Rotate, and extend. Owls. Certain figures, called Owls, can be produced likeMany Stars save for the interpolation or the alteration of onemovement. Their resemblance to Owls is slight, but they. Figure xi. An Owl, 366 STRING FIGURES [CH. XVIII maj^ be taken without much straining to represent Bats. Oneinstance—see figure xi—will suffice. The example of an Owl which I select is produced thus (Jayne, pp. 54—55).Immediately after taking up the string in the form of Opening A, give a twistto the index loops by bending each index down between the far index string andthe near little-finger string and, keeping the loop on it, bringing it towards youup between the near index string and the far thumb string. Continue with thesecond and subsequent movements described in Many Stars. In another example (Jayne, pp. 55—56) all the movements are the same asin Many Stars save that in the fifth movement the far little-finger string isdrawn from above, instead of from below, through the thumb loops. Single Stars. Other figures, which we may call SingleStars or Diamonds, can be produced like Many Stars save forthe alteration or omission of one movem
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