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.

听起来谐。演员们在表演的时候，还使螺在半空中旋转飞舞。演员用木制的球拍这些螺象羽毛球一样打来打去，螺总是一个劲地不停旋转，演员们最螺装到衣袋里了，但是当他们再拿出来的时候螺仍在旋转，一直转到里面的一根发条完全松开的时候，这时螺也都不再动了，摊开得象一束束开放的纸花。