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structure or the curtains. The [[underlined]] friends and family start the fire by [[strikethrough]] loo [[/strikethrough]] putting lighted candles [[/underlined]] and scroll work of [[underlined]] shavings [[/underlined]] under [[underlined]] the logs. [[/underlined]] Music [[underlined]] plays [[/underlined]] at [[underlined]] intervals [[/underlined]]. The Bronzes sit around and everybody looks on and keeps on smoking cigarettes [[underlined]] as if listening to a concert. By dark the pyre is flaming merrily. Firecrackers and fireworks are set off; [[/underlined]] then [[strikethrough]] aft [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] everybody walks off [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] rides away quietly [[/underlined]] and the [[underlined]] ashes and unconsumed bones are handed to [[/underlined]] to the family who put them [[underlined]] in a little silver urn [[/underlined]] for storage in the house there is [[strikethrough]] no air of [[/strikethrough]] more an air of festivity
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about it all, than an air of mourning. The corpse in its coffin is kept after death for a variable time which is longest for rich or important people. In this [[underlined]] case it is a nobleman [[/underlined]] and his corpse has been [[underlined]] kept waiting for nearly a year.
I notice several Siamese boy Scouts, dressed in regulation [[strikethrough]] F [[/strikethrough]] felt - sombrero, kaki shirt and kaki - short trousers They are called; [[underlined]] "Wild Tigers", [[/underlined]] a very tame and mild undersized weakly looking "tigers". Then visited [[underlined]] the royal Elephants - five of them [[/underlined]] saluting as every elephant in every zoo when a visitor offers food. here it was