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Temoenggoeng, with slow winding movements of the arm, remains on the spot or advances in a leisurely way, while Demang, always doubling on himself with immense rapidity, triples round him with tiny steps, continually spurred on by the cry: 'Brother Meng, go round, go round. "Brother Meng's 'going-round' is exceedingly comic; he trips swiftly in circles, one foot shifting continually while the other, with infinite lightness, merely tips the ground. They separate with slow, swaying steps, then dance wildly backwards in a continual accelerando with bodies much bent forward, till they cannon off each other's back in the middle of the ground, with loud roars of exuberant laughter.

They are so pleased with this manceuvre that they repeat it forwards with extended arms. If with the entry of an other patih, later in the play, another Demang and Temoenggroeng have to appear, there is a greater freedom in their dance; and they sometimes make tremendous play with the umbrellas, drawing them down to their level, playing hide-and-seek round their great disks, peering over them, dashing them to and fro, and piling up umbrellas and faces in amusing patterns.

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