...head. He paused for a moment, and looked at the bronzed bull throat, naked and knotty, and swelling to a deep and steady pulse. The slaver dripped dow... ...k, where a big spruce tree stood by itself. Slackwater Charley put a hangman’s knot in the end of a hauling line, and the noose was slipped over Lecl`... ... with his left hand movements, but that did not prevent his using the arm. The bight of the pack rope under the dead man’s shoulders en abled him to ... ...d swiftly. Then there would come a flash of his hands as he looped the weaver’s knot and released the bobbin. There was nothing difficult about weaver’s... ...ng centuries long in a single night at tying an endless succession of weaver’s knots. Some of the boys shirked, wasting time and machinery by not repl... ...to the knees; and the moccasin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration. For a moment he tugged with his numb fi...