Presently she pushed the child with her foot.

"Wake up," she said, as he raised himself still half asleep.

"You have young ears--it seemed to me that I heard a woman scream in Ani's tent.

Do you hear any thing ?" "Yes, indeed," exclaimed the little one.

"There is a noise like crying, and that--that was a scream! It came from out there, from Nemu's tent." "Creep through there," said the witch, "and see what is happening!" The child obeyed: Hekt turned her attention again to the bird, which no longer perched in her lap, but lay on one side, though it still tried to use its talons, when she took him up in her hand.
"It is all over with him," muttered the old woman, "and the one I called Rameses is sleeker than ever.