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Both have beards, one black, one red, attached to. Their chin, in shape like the beard of an old-fashioned butler. Long black hair hangs down over a tight sleeved, loose black bolero, and their kris juts out behind from under a wide splendidly pradaed kain. Their head-dresses are decorated with flowers, which wave jauntily with every movement. They dance vigorously between the umbrellas, almost squatting on the ground, one hand of each outstretched to hold an umbrella, which he curiously examines. Then they dance rapidly across to the opposite umbrella, exciting each other with stylized cries which never cease during the whole of their quaint, excited dance. They sway up and down perpetually while they change sides, and burst with cock-crowing laughter.

They leave the umbrellas and still swaying zig-zag up the ground with loud challenging cries, 'Asek I Haer A-ding-O!' and fantastic bursts of laughter. They seem convulsed with demon merriment, and their vociferous duet is like the eruption of a vast volcano of mirth. The continual repetition of one motif reminds one of a refrain in folk song, and there is a peasant quality in their dance, and a favour of clumsiness in its remarkable virtuosity. Meanwhile the patih remains poised with slight and subtle turns just within the dance-ground, holding his cloak delicately in outstretched fingers. After a certain drum-beat the melody changes to a slow tempo, and the couple move up to the end of the ground, marking each new phrase with curious accents of hands and feet.

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