The game was about to begin.
Two accordion-players began to play a quadrille.
The Accordion-Players began
The Rats licked their chops and, pulling at their moustaches, strutted about full of joy.
Two chariots, filled with a pearly and transparent paste, were brought up, and several dancers taking long pipes began rapidly to make balls of it, and to blow them at the rackets; the paste seemed to be of some sugary substance, and if they blew too hard the balls exploded without leaving so much as a trace.
Tennis
Several balls vanished in this way.