IN an article by R. G. Micklam in the 

 Wireless World recently an interesting 

 simplified method of committing to 

 memory the Morse Code by the use of a 

 succession of what may be termed mne- 

 monic groups was given. He takes us on a 

 mental trip to ■ Egypt, where we seat our- 

 selves directly in front of the Pyramid of 

 Cheops. We note, as we do so, a group of 

 Arabs standing by, who have evidently re- 

 ceived a radiogram from England apprising 

 them of our advent, for no sooner are we 

 comfortably seated than they race away and 

 begin scrambling up the face of this 6,000- 

 year-old monument. Having reached their 

 appointed places, they squat down simul- 

 taneously, clasping their arms around their 

 shins and sinking their chins on their knees, 

 so that they appear to us, some 500 ft. 

 away, like a collection of glorified full- 

 stops, their blue galabiehs forming a pleas- 

 ing contrast against the light brown ridges 

 of the pyramid. We notice, too, that they 

 have arranged themselves in a sym- 

 metrical group, as in Fig. 1 , and we turn to 

 a Dragoman standing by to ask what this 

 figure may mean. He tells us that the 

 Arabs take us for mere tourists (Pshaw!) 

 and want to earn "backsheesh." Well, 

 nobody begrudges an honest man a mouth- 

 ful of bread; on the other hand, by quite a 

 happy coincidence the Arabic word for 

 bread is "eish" and these cunning fellows 

 have so grouped themselves as to portray 

 in Morse Code the four letters composing 

 that word, since one dot (.) represents the 

 letter E, two dots (. .) represent I, three 

 dots (...) S and four dots H, and if this is 



how we are to learn the Morse alphabet, it 

 promises to be quite a simple matter. 



The second evolution appears to be the 

 preliminary to a precipitate roll down the 

 oblique face of the pyramid, as the six men 

 composing the three upper groups suddenly 

 straighten themselves out, as in Fig. 2, 

 and we are on the point of wirelessing to beg 

 them not on any account to break their 

 Egyptian necks for the mere gratification of 

 our unworthy selves, when we are given to 

 understand they threaten nothing more 

 violent or deadly than the representation of 

 three further code letters, the topmost man 

 now describing himself as a T ( — ), the 



Fig. 1. The Arabic word for bread 

 "eish" spelled out with human figures 



second two making out that they represent 



M ( ), while the third group aver it is 



they not we who should be surprised, since 



they collectively represent O! ( ). 



On learning this, however, we begin to feel 

 just a trifle uneasy in our minds, for it can 

 hardly have been a second coincidence that, 

 by a combination of the two groupings, 

 the word "eishtmo," should have been spelt, 



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