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Chapter 157

CVII

Another "flogging" tune, but without any dancing, is:—

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If you make him come out I will kill you to-night ya,
Why do, me Nana, do!

A girl is in the ring and a boy is flogging her with a whip. The boy says to the holders of the ring:—"If you let her come out I will kill you to-night, do you hear?" The girl is going round, begging to be released, with the appeal to each one:—"Oh do, my Nana!" that is, "Do let me out."