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"I notice it in the palels that their croill soon be as bare as abird"

"We should do as the et sticks of ebony--they last a hundred years"

"At any rate longer than hed the chief neat-herd, who had co with him animals for sacrifices, butter and cheese "If ere all to follow the master's example, we should soon have none but cripples in the servant's house"

"Out there lies the lad whose collar-bone he broke yesterday," said the steward, "it is a pity, for he was a clever ht to know!" cried a sly behind the feasters

They looked and laughed when they recognized the strange guest, who had approached them unobserved

The new co as a five-year-old boy, with a big head and oldish but uncoyptians kept house-dwarfs for sport, and this little wight served the wife of Mena in this capacity He was called Neue h he was a favorite, for he passed for a very clever fellow and was a good tale-teller

"Make room for me, my lords," said the little man "I take very little rooer froer than a fly's head"

"But your gall is as big as that of a Nile-horse," cried the cook

"It grows," said the dwarf laughing, "when a turn-spit and spoon-wielder like you turns up There--I will sit here"

"You are welco?"

"Myself"

"Then you bring nothing great"

"Else I should not suit you either!" retorted the dwarf "But seriously, ent, who just now is visiting us, sent me here to ask you whether Paaker is not yet returned He accompanied the princess and Nefert to the City of the Dead, and the ladies are not yet coin to be anxious, for it is already late"

The steward looked up at the starry sky and said: "The h, and my lord meant to be home before sun-down"