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Rh And so they go on, entering the gateway formed by the two tall ones, and when the least come up to them then these two turn round also.

The second variation of the above game has more singing in it but the children arrange themselves in the same way, the two tallest ones and the rest singing alternately as follows:—

And so they go on, mentioning other kinds of food, and then all the different fruits. When this is finished, the little ones go forward to enter, making at the same time a loud noise and singing:

Another "variant" of this song is given by my friend, the Rev. J. Richardson, Principal of the L.M S. Normal School at Antanànarìvo, who has done much for the musical progress of the Malagasy by instructing them in the Tonic Sol-fa system, and has also written numerous excellent hymns as well as some capital school songs. As he also supplies the Sol-fa notation of the tune, I venture to extract