Show KNOTTY PROBLEMS FOR BOYS knots are just As useful about the house as they are at sea sailor describes three can you ou tie a good knot probably cot n 0 t renn few but sailors can call knot a rope ro pe as it mould be dons done yet knots are just as useful in a hundred may aas S about the house as they are at bea an old bailor describes a few fenn 0 of tho the more handy hand knots linon to every even 40 terhand knot sq ac not granny knot useful knots able bodied saiman cut out his as they are printed and tave lave them boull find occasion to eter efer to them over and oer again the familia r oN oer erland Lanil rig ing 1 is if he be simplest knot of all it is tile the asis of 0 the square or reet reef knot ng fig 2 nelch Is more useful and than any other in de da bribing these knots imoto terms are used eight bight means sim ay a 1 loop and I 1 standing part means that mat part of the rope to the left of the knot it tho the knot Is held before 3 iou ou N ith the free end to the right to make a square knot usini using the ends of ropes make a bight of 0 the end of one so that the prid nd and standing part lie side b by side ihen pass the end of the other up through the bight around both parts of the first end and doin through the bight again the difference between this knot and the granny knot rig fig 3 is evident when nolen non ou study studs the pie pc tures carefully care tull sailors make tun fun ot of the granny knot it is 13 very liable to slip |