Take a piece of string and knot the ends together and slip it over
your hands, as in Fig. 1.
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Next wind the string round your hands, not including the thumb, as in
Fig. 2.
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Slip the second fingers through the string on your hands and you have
your cat's cradle, as in Fig. 3.
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You must now ask a second person to put his thumbs and first fingers
through the cradle, as in Fig. 4.
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Draw out the string and take it under the cradle, and you will have
Fig. 5.
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Slip the thumbs and first fingers again into the side pieces of the
cradle, draw the string sideways and take it under the cradle, and you
will have Fig. 6.
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Now curl the little fingers round the string, slipping one under the
other as shown, and draw out the side pieces.
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Slip the thumb and first fingers under the side string, bring them up
the middle, and you have your original cat's cradle again.
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