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A THUMB CATCH
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First: First Position, with the strings between the hands crossed; the left near string passing over the right near string (Fig. 791).
Second: Opening A, taking up the left palmar string first. Third: Turn each thumb away from you down into the loop on the index finger, and, holding securely in the bend of the thumb the far thumb string and the
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near index string (Fig. 792), turn the hands with the fingers pointing downward (Fig. 793), and drop from the hands all the strings except those held by the thumbs.
Fourth: Turn the hands with the fingers pointing upward (Fig. 794). Separate the hands (Fig. 795).
