Now, with a speculative air, he was making a slip noose at one end.

A line attached to this leads to a slip noose which fits inside the tube.

He then put a slip noose around its upper lip and led it unmercifully, while Curtis encouraged it from behind with a rope-end.

Two ropes would be put about the neck of each animal, with a slip noose, so that he could be choked if too unruly.

"I just made slip nooses, and placed them where they'd have to step into them before they could lay hands on the clothes," explained Jack.