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vi SAPU-SAPU *RINGIN 501
Stntak pelok
Twitch and embrace
Tangan Tuan Putri The Princess's hand.
The well-known game called Sapu-sapu 'Ringin
I have seen played as follows :
Two players sit down on the floor opposite each
other, with their legs stretched out straight in front
of them and their hands in their laps, and join in
singing
these lines :
Sapu-sapu beringin, Brush, brush the banyan-tree,
Katimbun dayong-dayong, A pile of oars lies stacked ;
Datang 'Che Aji Lcbai Here comes 'Che Aji LSbai
Bawa buaya kudong. Bringing a maimed crocodile :
Kudong kakt, kudong tangan, Maimed in foot and maimed in hand,
Tiada buleh bcrpulangan. It can't go home again.
Here both players double up one leg under them as
they sit ; then they repeat the lines just quoted,
doubling up the left leg at the end of the recital ;
then they close the fists and pile them one on each
other, the lowest resting on one of the player's knees,
and say
......
Pong along-along
Kerinting n'ang-n'ang,
Ketapong
Crick-crick (?) (sing) the crickets (?)
kebalok
Minyak 'Arab, minyak sapi, Arabian oil and x
ghee j
Pechah telor sa-biji.
Here's one egg broken.
Here the lowest fist is flattened out. In the same
way each of the four eggs (i.e. is
fists) broken till
the top is reached, when the four hands are moved
up and down on the left knee of one of the players
as the chant recommences
Pram p'ram pisang . . . the plantain,
Masak sa-biji di-gonggong ban-ban The fruit-bat seizes a ripe one,
Bawa Sari, And takes it away
Terbang-lah
dia ! As off he flies !
1 The ordinary Indian name for "clarified butter," which is used largely
in Eastern cookery.