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126 If something is not speedily given, the singers begin banging stove-plates, jingling bells, and sing:

When they have obtained pancakes, trotters, and millet groats through the window, they begin praising the people of the house:

When this is concluded the children enter the house, and the eldest, who carries the sack, takes from his glove some seeds of various kinds, and throws them at the people of the house with the words:

"May Pas the Provider send you crops."

The people collect the seeds to put by till the time for sowing arrives. When the children have completed the rounds of the village they assemble in some house and eat what they have collected. They