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# In an ancient game-song, a sparrow or a drake entertains the audience by imitating how children, merchants, lads, girls and old women walk and caper about in dance
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- Published: 2025-06-20T09:02:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:42.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Ethnography, Humour

Old women all go like this: hunched over, stooping low. And girls go like this: perked up, merry-making, perked up, and clap your hands!

Let us commit it to memory. Hunched over or perked up. And above all, do not mix them up.