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very fantastic dialogue in a most ancient Coptic tongue, such as might have been spoken thirty centuries lago in the syrinxes of the land of |Ser luckily, I understood. Coptic
perfectly well that night.
The Princess Hermonthis cried, in a voice sweet and vibrant as the tones of a crystal bell:"
"Well, my dear little foot, you always flee from me; yet I always took good care of you, I bathed you with perfumed water in a bowl of falabaster; I smoothed your heel with pumice-stone mixed with palm oll; your nails were cut with golden scissors and polished with a hip- popotamus tooth; I was careful to select tatbeba for you; painted and embroidered and turned up at the toes, which were the envy of all the young girls in Egypt: you wore on your great toe rings bearing the device of the sacred scarabaeus; and you supported one of the Highest bodies that a lazy foot could sustain."
The foot replied. in a pouting and chagrined tone:
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diles contemporary with them- A few moments later obelisks com-rendered monstrous of aspect by pieces of gold for my ransom?”
"Alas, no!-my jewels, my rings, menced to tower in the distance: their swathing bands-mewed, flap my purses of gold and silver, they pylons and vast flights of steps pod their wings, or extended their were all stolen from me," answered guarded by sphinxes became clearly jaws in a saurian giggle,
thero All the Pharaohs were the Princess Hermonthis. with aloutlined against the horizon. sob,
We had reached our destination. Cheops, Chephrenes, Psammetichus, "Princess," I then exclaimed, "I The princess conducted me to the Sesostris, Amenotaph-all the dark nover retained anybody's foot un-mountain of rose-coloured granite, rulers of the pyramids and syrinxes; justly-even though you have not in the face of which appeared anon yet higher thrones aat Chronos got the five louis which it cost me, opening so narrow and low that it and Xixoutbros who was contem- I present it to you gladly: I should would have been difficult to distin-porary with the deluge; and Tubal; feel unutterably wretched to think guish it from the fissures in the rock Cain, who reigned before it.
The beard of King Xixouthros had that I were the cause of so amiable had not its location been marked by
Bever times around the a person as the Princess Ifermonthis two stale wrought with sculptures. grown
Hermonthis kindled a torch, and granite table upon which he leaned, being lame."
She turned a look of deepest led the way before me.
lost in deep reverie-and buried in gratitude upon me; and her eyes We traversed corridors bewn dreams, shone with bluish gleams of light. through the living rock: their walls,
She took her foot-which surren-covered with hieroglyphics and cloud, I beheld dimly the 72 pre- dered itself willingly this time-like paintings of allegorical processions, Adamite Kings, with their 72 pao- a woman about to put on her little might well have occupied thousands ples-forever passed away.
After permitting me to gave upon shoe, and adjusted it to her leg with of arms for thousands of years in much skill.
their formation; these corridors, this bewildering spectacle a few This operation over, she took a of interminable length, opened into moments, the Princess Hermonthis! few steps about the room, as though square chambers, in the midst of presented me to her father Pharaoh, to assure herself that she was really which pits had been contrived, who favoured me with a no longer lame.
through which we descended by gracious nod. "Ah, how pleased my father will cramp-irons or spiral stairways ;-~~-~- "I have found my foot again!—1| B.I. Apcar Line steers have excellent accommodation for bel-he who was so unhappy be these pits again conducted us into have found my foot!" cried the 1st and 2nd class passenges.
cause of my mutilation, and who other chambers, opening into other Princess, clapping her little hands from the moment of my birth set a corridors, likewise decorated with together with every sign of frantic serpents Joy. "It was this gentleman who EASTERN & AUSRALIAN SAILINGS (South, whole nation at work to hollow me painted sparrow-hawks,
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"The Princess Hermonthis Jung ceive you kindly; for you 4 May. 2. Jono
given me back my foot."
on every side, between which twin-found her foot again!"
Even Xixouthros himself WLE I thought this proposition natural kled livid stars of yellowish flame. enough. I arrayed myself in a The Princess Hermonthis still visibly affected.
my hand, and "graciously He raised his heavy eyelids, dress-gown of large-flowered pat-held Regular monthly sailings Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan tern, which lent me a very Pharaonic saluted the mummies of her acquain-stroked his moustache with his fin- and Hong Kong to Australia.
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Turkish slippers, and Informed the My eyes became accustomed to weighty with centuries. The Union BS. Company's mers to the United Kingdom via New Princess Hermonthis that I was the dim twilight, and objects bo- "By Oms, the dog of Hell, and Tmel, daughter of the Sun and of ready to follow her.
came discernible," Zealand, Vancouver, San Franci etc.
Before starting, Hermonthis took I beheld the dnge of the subter-Truth, this is a brave and worthy The New Zealand Shipping pany's steamers for Southampton and from her neck the little Idol of ranean races seated upon thrones-lad!" explaimed Pharaoh, pointing: London via Panama Canal."
green paste, and laid it on the scat-grand old men, though dry, wither-to me with his sceptre, which was tered sheets of paper which covered ed, wrinkled like parchment, and terminated with a lotus-Bower. the table.
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"What recompense do you desire?”? Filled with that daring inspired by dreams in which nothing seema Impossible, I asked him for the hand of the Princess Hermonthis: the hand seemed to me a very pro- per antithetic recompense for the
Pharaoh opened wide his great eyes of glass in astonishment at my witty request
What country do you come from? and what is your "igs7101
"I am a Frenchman; and 1am twenty-seven years old, venerable Pharaoh.
|--I wanty-seven years old!" and/ he wishes to espouse the Princess Hermonthis, who is thirty” con fturies old. cried out at once all
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