The book of athletics and out-of-door sports : containing practical advice and suggestions from college team-captains and other amateurs, on foot-ball, base-ball, tennis, rowing, golf, sprinting, bicycling, swimming, skating, yachting, etc. (1895)
Bingham, Norman Williams, Jr · Boston : Lothrop Pub. Co. · leaf 296
KNOTS, HITCHES, AND SPLICES. 293 its " old sailor," and there is no old sailor anywhere but will be glad to come and give you a lesson in splicing. A splice that you can very easily learn for your- selves, however, is the Eye-splice. First make yourse^" a marling-spike, — if you have not the gen-… … of hard wood. I have found that the half of a clothes-pin, so treated, answered the purpose ex- ceedingly well. Then take a piece of good three- strand rope, unwind the strands, and place them as you see, a, b, c, in Fig. 33. Open the strand d, and pass a through it, as in Fig. 34; then open e, and…
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