So absurd did he look that my mother and I must bow very deeply to hide our laughter while Karema said, "It would be better, Husband, if you found children to carry your robe instead of two giants.

Moreover, if it is meant to copy the colours of a grasshopper, 'tis badly done, since grasshoppers are green and you are gold and scarlet.

Also they do not wear feathers set awry upon their heads." Bes rolled his eyes as though in agony, then turning, bade his attendants be gone.

They obeyed, though doubtfully as though they did not like to leave him alone with us, whereon he let down the flap of the pavilion, threw off his gorgeous coverings and said, "You must learn to understand, Wife, that our customs are different from those of Egypt.

There I was happy as a slave and you were held to be beautiful as the Cup of the holy Tanofir, also learned.