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 run after the silverfish and bite their tails ― and the toads with big bellies ― cry kurkuà kurkuà.

東嶽 tung1 y&uuml;4 one of the five sacred mountains, the 泰山 t'ai4 shan1, in the Shantung province. 墪兒 tun1'r， a small earth moud. Each verse ends with the character 兒 eur ， which gives fun to the song.

In the temple of mount T'ai-shan 一 under the east verandah ― under the east verandah there is an earth mound ― on which squats a turtle with golden eyes and a shell covered with green moss — from the south has come a devil ― bearing on his