Show ON THE IRRAAVADDY We have been tied up to the bank for the night At dawn of day the mist lies low on the river and the air is chilly so that one instinctively turns up the collar of his coat Presently the mist lifts and the tropical sun shines out strong and clear The steam whistle sounds the anchor is j weighed and we are off The scenery is not exciting No snow mountains i rise on the horizon and the banks are J rarely precipitous The rich greenwoods green-woods and the gray and purple mountains moun-tains the great expanse of level water recall the English lake scenery but it is the English lake scenery with the color of Venice and the sun of the tropics Idly gliding down stream pass gondolalike fishing boats with high i carved steering chairs and fishermen l dressed in pink and crimson and yel low or dugouts are paddled up stream i with a spot of brilliant color in bow and stern Immense rafts of teakwood from the forests slowly drift by toward to-ward Rangoon As the day draws into afternoon sheeny tints of mauve and pink shoot across the water and sky J the sun sets gloriously quickly the land Is dark but for a wondrous half I hour sky and water are blended in the gold and crimson of the afterglow Cornhill Magazine |