The school-boy is the school-boy's best tutor." "But Paaker," said the priest Meriapu, "was not improved by the provocations of his companions.

Constant contests with them increased that roughness which now makes him the terror of his subordinates and alienates all affection." "He is the most unhappy of all the many youths, who were intrusted to my care," said Ameni, "and I believe I know why,--he never had a childlike disposition, even when in years he was still a child, and the Gods had denied him the heavenly gift of good humor.

Youth should be modest, and he was assertive from his childhood.

He took the sport of his companions for earnest, and his father, who was unwise only as a tutor, encouraged him to resistance instead of to forbearance, in the idea that he thus would be steeled to the hard life of a Mohar." [The severe duties of the Mohar are well known from the papyrus of Anastasi I.in the Brit.Mus., which has been ably treated by F.
Chabas, Voyage d'un Egyptien.] "I have often heard the deeds of the Mohar spoken of," said the old priest from Chennu, "yet I do not exactly know what his office requires of him." "He has to wander among the ignorant and insolent people of hostile provinces, and to inform himself of the kind and number of the population, to investigate the direction of the mountains, valleys, and rivers, to set forth his observations, and to deliver them to the house of war, [Corresponding to our minister of war.

A person of the highest importance even in the earliest times.] so that the march of the troops may be guided by them." "The Mohar then must be equally skilled as a warrior and as a Scribe." "As thou sayest; and Paaker's father was not a hero only, but at the same time a writer, whose close and clear information depicted the country through which he had travelled as plainly as if it were seen from a mountain height.