But there is no need for it to be that with which you shot the lions, which, too, you value above anything you have, seeing that it came down to you from your forefather who was a Pharaoh of Egypt, and has been your companion from boyhood ever since you were strong enough to draw it.

As you may remember I copied that bow out of a somewhat lighter wood, which I could bend with ease, and it is the copy that we will give to the King.

Only first I must set your string upon it, for that may have been noted; also make one or two marks that are on your bow which I am finishing now, having begun the task with the dawn." "You are clever," I said laughing, "and I am glad.

The holy Tanofir, looking on my bow, once had a vision.

It was that an arrow loosed from it would drink the blood of a great king and save Egypt.