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MERRY COMPANY OF PEASANT MAIDENS OF THE PETSERI DISTRICT Hand in hand they stand demurely in a circle, with aprons tied correctly under their arms and coloured kerchiefs wound tightly round their heads. As the musician, seen in the centre of the ring with concertina, plays the opening chords the dance begins, and soon the soft musical strains are all but lost in the whirl of flying skirts, the stamp of dancing feet, and the gay merriment of these happy Esthonian peasant girls |