. Things worth doing and how to do them. feetlong, five feet high and four or five feet wide. How do you sup-pose men ever managed to lift such monstrous blocks to buildthe pyramid? Well, they were obliged to labor very hard, forit took two hundred layers of stones for the pile, and all the workwas done with the utmost care and precision. You must also use care and precision in building your Egyp-tian pyramids. Have them exact, and in place of the heavystone blocks use Coarse SandpaperIf possible, get it of a tawny yellow hue, that the miniature pyra-mids may be the same color as the originals
. Things worth doing and how to do them. feetlong, five feet high and four or five feet wide. How do you sup-pose men ever managed to lift such monstrous blocks to buildthe pyramid? Well, they were obliged to labor very hard, forit took two hundred layers of stones for the pile, and all the workwas done with the utmost care and precision. You must also use care and precision in building your Egyp-tian pyramids. Have them exact, and in place of the heavystone blocks use Coarse SandpaperIf possible, get it of a tawny yellow hue, that the miniature pyra-mids may be the same color as the originals, now that the outsidecasings of the latter are off. King Cheops had an army of onehundred thousand men laboring constantly during twenty longyears to pile up his stones. You can make your Khufu Pyramidin twenty minutes and need employ only ten fingers instead ofone hundred thousand men. Cut one side of The Pyramid from sandpaper (Fig. 292); if the paper is not stiff enough,paste it on a piece of cardboard; an old box-lid will do. Make. 3 aa. !>>W o The Pyramids of Egypt 221 two more sides like the first and gum narrow strips of muslinalong the right side edge of each (Fig. 293). The dotted line
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