It's a six-sided one, with eight strands down in the round part.

I taught him how to braid it." He chewed a moment and spat before going on: "And now look at him.

He's little, but oh my." Something was working under McHurdie's belt, for Bob could hear it chuckling as he chewed: "Wasn't she a buster?
It's funny, ain't it--the way we all pick big ones--we sawed-offs"?
The laugh came--a quiet, repressed gurgle, and he added: "Yes--by hen, and you long-shanks always pick little dominickers.

Eh ?" He chewed a meditative cud before venturing, "That's what I told her comin' home to-night." Bob knew whom he meant.

The man went on: "But when she saw them--him so little she'll have to shake the sheet to find him--and her so big and busting, I seen _her_--you know," he nodded his head wisely to indicate which "her" he meant.