article_snippet.sent: Then a schoolgirl in brilliant white uniform striding through the dawn mists along a levee between paddy fields, while an equally white egret paced daintily in the water.
article_snippet.sent: Or an old lady, knee-deep in a swamp picking blue water lilies, the national flower.
article_snippet.sent: Huge, golden-green butterflies fluttered past.
article_snippet.sent: A strange symphony of birds burbled out of the trees
article_snippet.sent: It was a Buddhist monk in his vivid garb.