10.  Another fine building is a high lookout tower.  From the top of it there is a grand view.  On one side I saw a hill covered with temples.  At the foot of the hill there were four hundred and fifty of these temples.  There must be thousands of them in and near the city.

11.  As I drove to my hotel last night I saw a number of boys playing Burmese football.  They do not take sides, nor do they try to kick goals.  The football is made of basket-work.

12.  The boys stand round in a ring, and the game is to keep the ball from touching the ground.  The boys pass the ball from one to the other by knocking it up with their heads, arms, hands, legs, or toes.  Some of the boys are very clever at this game.

[Illustration:  {Boys playing Burmese football}]

13.  Burma has many beautiful rivers and some fine mountains.  By the side of the rivers much rice is grown.  Away in the north there are grand forests filled with wild animals.  Tigers are often shot within twenty miles of the old king’s palace.

14.  Now I have filled my paper, and I must bring this letter to an end.  I hope you are all well and happy.  I am leaving Burma tomorrow.—­Best love to you all.  Father.

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18.  A letter from Ceylon.

1.  My dear children,—­A week ago I landed in the beautiful island of Ceylon.  It lies to the south of India.  Get mother to show it to you on the globe.

2.  I am still under the British flag, the Union Jack.  I can see it waving from the top of a big building.  The people of Ceylon are proud to call themselves British.

3.  I have just been for a ride through the streets of the chief town.  I rode in a rickshaw—­that is, a kind of large baby-carriage drawn by a man.  My rickshaw had rubber on its wheels, so we went along very smoothly and quickly.

[Illustration:  {Rickshaw with passenger}]

4.  Some of the carts are drawn by little bullocks that trot along as fast as a pony.  I often meet carts with a high cover of thatch.  These carts carry the tea, which grows on the hills, down to the ships in the harbour.

5.  Some of the men of Ceylon wear tortoise-shell combs in their hair.  They are very proud of these combs, and some of them are very handsome.

[Illustration:  {Ceylon family—­a man, a woman, and two babies}]

6.  The children of Ceylon seem very happy.  They are pretty and clean, and always obey their parents.  Many of them learn to speak and read English.  They love dancing and singing, and they never quarrel.

[Illustration:  Ceylon Girls Playing the Tom-Tom.

(From the picture by E.A.  Hornel.  By permission of the Corporation of
Manchester.)]

7.  By the next ship home I am sending mother a chest of tea.  The tea grew on the hills of Ceylon.  I made a journey to these hills by train.  On the way we passed through thick forests, and by the side of beautiful rivers.