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choose the ladies to dance. The marker was a lively blue manakin, a famous master in the courtroom. Narizinho, sitting on the throne, was itching to dance. But the quadrille passed and no one came to take her away. Soon afterwards, however, the orchestra broke into the Royal Waltz and the prince stood up and said to the girl:

— Our turn has come. Would you do me the honor of this waltz?

Narizinho, who wanted nothing more, climbed down from the throne and, in the prince's arms, spun around the room so fast that she looked like a living spinning top. When the South American side-neck turtle saw this, he whispered to the snail: "If that lively little fellow took you out to dance, what would become of you, buddy?"