It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them. [Please select]
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Begin by bending the rope to form two bights as in _A_, Fig. [Please select]
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It will stand a tremendous strain without slipping, but will loosen when held slack, and can be untied by a quick jerk of the two outside ropes forming the bights. [Please select]
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If the rope is to be permanently shortened pass the ends through the first and second bights at the bend as in _E_, and the knot will hold for any length of time. [Please select]
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