Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 651
mesh off the stick as atfirst. Instead, she wenton knotting through D,C, and so on, until therewere five new meshes onthe stick, their knotslying side by side alongthe bevel. In working a large hammock, she told me it is easiest to make ten or a dozen meshes before slipping them off from the stick.… … There, said she, that finishes the hammockpart. Now I 11 show you about the guys,—thelong strings, you know, at the ends. Theyre just nothing at all but big meshes.The easiest way to make them even is towind the twine a certain number of timesaround the mesh-stick instead of onlyonce, as in the…
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