Lesley.] cr,9 [186S. 



mouth of the l)eautifiil woman, and she perceived that she was 

 with chihl .... and they did all that her soul desired. 



And it happened after many daj-s tliat she brought forth a boy ; 

 and they went to tell the king: A boy is born to thee. And he 

 was fetched, and they gave him a nurse and waiting women ; and 

 jo}' was in all the land. Tliey sat down to celebrate a festival ; 

 they gave him his name, and the king loved him clearh^ from 

 that hour on ; and he called him Prince of Ethiopia. . 



Now many days after tliis the king made him governor of all 

 the land. 



Now many days after this, when he had fulfdled many years 

 as governor, then died tlie king ; the Pharaoh tiew^ to heaven. 

 And the other said: Bring me now here the great and mighty of 

 the royal court, and I will give them to know the whole history 

 of what has happened in respect of me and of the queen. And 

 his wife was V)rought to him, and he revealed himself to her before 

 them, and the^^ said their say. And his elder brother was brought 

 to him, and he made him governor over all the land. Thirty 

 years reigned he as king of Egypt. When he had lived thirty 

 years, then stood his brother in his stead, on the day of his 

 burial. 



" To be associated with this excellent invention, the names 

 of the royal scribe, Kagabu, the scribe Hora, and the scribe 

 Merimapu. Edited by the scribe Annana, the possessor of 

 this roll. May the God Thoth keep from destruction all the 

 words contained in this roll." 



Several interesting touches of cotemporanecus life are notice- 

 able in this story. The court, for example, is seen employing 

 washmen, instead of washwomen ; and their chief or boss was 

 evidently responsible for the quality of their work ; an arrange- 

 ment common in the East, expressly described in other [japyri 

 of that age, and explanatorj- of the fates of the head butler and 

 head baker in the Mosaic story of Joseph. 



As anotlier instance, may be cited the careful selection of her 

 time by the Beauty (as in the Hebrew story of Esther and 

 Ahasuerus) when she wished to obtain a difficult favor. 



The elder brother's wife sitting braiding her hair recalls to the 

 traveller's recollection the elaliorate pendant tresses of impor- 

 tant personages figured on the monuments of the Third Empire. 



The temptation of Josei:)h may be a paraphrase of the tempta- 



