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 her feet old shoes with no heels ― as she advances a step ― it sounds t'alalà — and of her ten toes three peep out of her shoes.

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NOTES

This song is profusedly interspersed with the character 痲 ma$2$ whose meaning is "smallpox." This disease is so common in China that very often children who have been sick with it and keep marks