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EIGHT-STRAND


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            Take  the outermost left-
         2  hand strand  around and
         behind to  emerge in  the middle
         of the  four  right- hand strands,
         and then  over, to  lie  next to,
         and  inside,  its three companions
         on  the  left-hand side.
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