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Changes on Four Bells,

that bełl is leading, each can then make the alteration that is reąuired of him. This can be ascertained by noticing where each beli passes the treble. The position in which a beli passes the treble is counted by the płaces ffhrough which it is passing when the treble strikes behind and in front of it; for example, in the two changes given, where the fourth, in going 34x2 □p, crosses the treble coming down, that beli is said to 3 1 4 2 pass it in 2-3, because when in second's place the treble strikes after, and when in third’s place before it.¹

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If the changes of the first lead be examined, it will be seen that when the beli that passes the treble in 2-3 arrives in fourtłris place, the treble beli has struck its first blow at the lead. As the beli that is in fourths place, when the treble leads at hand, has to dodge back into third's place at the back stroke, it is evident that any beli which, in going up, passes the treble in 2-3 will have to dodge in 3-4 up. In the same way it may be seen that any beli that turns the treble from behind will go on with its ordinary work until it strikes the blow in third’s place on the way down, when, as the treble will then have arrived at the lead, this beli will, at the next blow, dodge back into fourth’s place, and then proceed in the usual hunting-course. The beli that the treble turas from the lead will, of course, have to make second’s place and lead again.

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There are one or Iwo other terms used to express the places in which each beli passes the treble. One of ihese consists in noting only the place in which you strike over that beli, withoul also inclnd i ng the place in which it strikes over you. Thus, instead of saying “pass the treble in 2-3.” the expression “ pass the treble in third's ” would be used; this same expression is also varied thus, by saying “ treble turns you into third’s,'’ or “ treble puts you into third’s.