Afoot and afloat in Burma . on the summit of a hill. In thedry season there is a festival there. At thattime some thousands of people visit it. Theydance in groups on these very fields. One time I saw another interesting thingat this place. Men were casting a great bellfor use on some religious building. Theyhad made the mold in the ground, and had Through the Fields 39 built a furnace near by, so that they couldmelt the brass and run it straight into themold without difficulty. On the pagoda there are large brass bellswhich have been cast in this crude way. Itmay be that a large number of peo
Afoot and afloat in Burma . on the summit of a hill. In thedry season there is a festival there. At thattime some thousands of people visit it. Theydance in groups on these very fields. One time I saw another interesting thingat this place. Men were casting a great bellfor use on some religious building. Theyhad made the mold in the ground, and had Through the Fields 39 built a furnace near by, so that they couldmelt the brass and run it straight into themold without difficulty. On the pagoda there are large brass bellswhich have been cast in this crude way. Itmay be that a large number of people willclub together and each give so much weightof metal for such a purpose, as the chil-dren of Israel did for the making of thegolden calf at the foot of Mt. Sinai; andthen all are supposed to share in the meritwhich comes from doing this pious act. After our long and muddy walk, AungBaws hedge looks quite cheerful; and nowthat we can see it, it will not be long untilwe are comfortably settled in his house forthe THE WAY BURMESE GROW PADDY Making Thanaka—Names of Burmese Letters — In aBurmese School — Planting and Guarding Rice Fields Tek like bah, say a is the way AungBaws folks tell us to climb to the verandaof their house. Up the bamboo ladder wego, and settle ourselves on the floor, scaringaway the dog. He walks off down the lad-der just as easily as can be. These villagedogs are not very bold, and can do little butbark, and that generally from a safe our friends are busy preparing ussomething to eat, we can look around. Here is a crossbow, quite a heavy afifairin its way. It is stretched by turning ahandle, so that it can be pulled very tightindeed; and then to release the arrow, a littletrigger is pulled, very much like that of agun. The Burmese use these very a smaller crossbow they shoot mudballs that have been baked hard in the place of a thong or string, these bows haveslender bamboo strips. In just the right 42 A
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