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Rh Rahy maty e, atao ahoana?
 * Fonosin-drarin-tatamo.

Ravin-tatamo tsy mahafono azy, Fa lamba mena no mahafono azy.

Rafara O, Rafara!
 * What is it then, what is it?

Where has your husband gone?
 * He's gone away a-trading.

Should he be dead, what then?
 * Wrap him in leaves of water-lily.

Water-lily leaves won't wrap him, But a red làmba will wrap him.

Then they change the song and sing,

And when that is finished they all rise and leap about like frogs, at the same time slapping their chests; and those who are tired first and stop are considered as beaten.

The Sakòda No. 2 is much the same kind of game, but with different words.

Another game is called Dian-tràndraka, i.e. "Hedgehog steps," and is played by all the party arranging themselves in rows, those behind taking hold of those in front, all singing and bending down in imitation of the movements of the animal which gives its name to the play.