Afoot and afloat in Burma . Bowing Down to a Monk. HOW YOUNG BURMANS MAKEMERRY A Water Festival — Attack on a Boat — The LightFeast — Buddhas Tooth — Funeral Fireworks Look out! I jumped aside just in time to avoid be-ing drenched with a pail of water thrownat the street car by a young scamp. You see it was the Burmese water fes-tival, and young Burma was out to have agood time. There were long squirts, tincans, and pails — anything that would holdwater was being used. Every one was join-ing in the merrymaking. A strange way of making merry, you maythink, soaking other people and gettingsoaked
Afoot and afloat in Burma . Bowing Down to a Monk. HOW YOUNG BURMANS MAKEMERRY A Water Festival — Attack on a Boat — The LightFeast — Buddhas Tooth — Funeral Fireworks Look out! I jumped aside just in time to avoid be-ing drenched with a pail of water thrownat the street car by a young scamp. You see it was the Burmese water fes-tival, and young Burma was out to have agood time. There were long squirts, tincans, and pails — anything that would holdwater was being used. Every one was join-ing in the merrymaking. A strange way of making merry, you maythink, soaking other people and gettingsoaked oneself; but on a hot day — and thiswater festival comes in the hot season — itmust be good fun, provided one is dressedfor the occasion. Just what the reason for the festival is, itis hard to say, for explanations differ; butthe great majority of the people do not con- 8 114 Afoot and Afloat Through Burma cern themselves with that question; and forthem it is simply a fact that everybody hasa holiday and makes merry. The celebratio
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