The jugglers tossed them in the air, threw them like shuttlecocks with wooden battledores, and yet they kept on spinning;they put them into their pockets, and took them out still whirling as before.

听起来非常和谐。表的时候，还使陀螺半空中旋飞舞。用木制的球拍这些陀螺象羽毛球一样打来打去，陀螺总是一个劲地不停旋，最后陀螺装到衣袋里了，但是当他再拿出来的时候陀螺仍旋，一直到里面的一根发条完全松开的时候，这时陀螺也都不再动了，摊开得象一束束开放的纸花。