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They fold their hands and close their eyes as if in prayer, raise their left hands with palms outspread towards the sky and then rest their heads upon them as if asleep.
Third Verse.
They go through movements of washing hands, pointing them up towards the sun, and then holding them up to dry.
Fourth Verse.
They simply shake their heads very slowly, while singing the second and last lines of verse.
O, I'm a Happy Little Rill.
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Characters and objects represented. Rill, bridge, spring, hill, willow tree, pebbles on bank, and grains of sand, or soil. Two or four children form the bridge by joining hands and lifting them high. Not far from the bridge stand two more children with joined hands lifted high to represent the hill. From under the hill bubbles the Spring, who laughs and sings as it comes dancing along to the bridge. Just before it reaches the bridge it stops to give drink to the willow tree growing on the bank, while swaying its arms over the rill to represent boughs of trees. The little Spring throws kisses to the air, runs quickly under the bridge, picks up a pebble from the bank in merry sport and then a grain of sand. The sand and pebbles follow on after the Spring, or Rill.
The rill has now become a streamlet and continues on its way dancing, singing, and nodding to the sky above. And so on it Mows until it becomes a brook, dashing noisily to the end of ring, where it lies down and falls asleep on the bosom of the river, to rest and dream till it reaches the ocean wide and deep.
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