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Get Knotted

Knots-besotted (too canny for a granny) as sailors go (and they will) of which I am (still) one (when day is done) I can bend a bowline (from stern to stem) with the best of them (just so's you knows... the rabbit out of the hole comes 'round the tree runs then back down goes) and tie (not hit) a reef (or square) so fine or (none too sheepishly) yank a sheepshank in a (fairly hefty) hank of line also (if it's not too late) do a (non-binding) figure eight (with half a minding) to stop the rope from sliding (I hope) (and/or) fraying to (defray the cost) for new cordage paying (in time a stitch) yet there's one more which (so all's not lost) (clever clogs) calls a clove hitch

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