StNicholas [serial] . VIEW OF THE SPHINX SHOWING THE TABLET AND TEMPLE BETWEEN THE FORE LEGS. 285 286 THE STORY OF THE SPHINX. [Feb. his father died, and the prince ascended the terrific gales of wind, and then the sand is throne of Egypt and was King Tehuti-mes IV. whirled along through the air in such quanti- I will tell you now how it happened that we ties that it is worse for people to be out in than have found out whether he did what he made a rain-storm or snow-storm. Each gust of wind. PRINCB TEHUTI-MES AWAKES FROM HIS DREAM. up his mind to do the day when he slept in the carries along
StNicholas [serial] . VIEW OF THE SPHINX SHOWING THE TABLET AND TEMPLE BETWEEN THE FORE LEGS. 285 286 THE STORY OF THE SPHINX. [Feb. his father died, and the prince ascended the terrific gales of wind, and then the sand is throne of Egypt and was King Tehuti-mes IV. whirled along through the air in such quanti- I will tell you now how it happened that we ties that it is worse for people to be out in than have found out whether he did what he made a rain-storm or snow-storm. Each gust of wind. PRINCB TEHUTI-MES AWAKES FROM HIS DREAM. up his mind to do the day when he slept in the carries along just as much sand as it can sup-shadow of the Sphinx. port, and when anything obstructs the path ofYou have learned that the desert is mostly the wind, then and there the sand is dropped,sand. Egypt does not have snow and hail and falls again to the ground,and rain, as we do; hence its sand keeps ex- Now, on the day when Prince Tehuti-mesceedingly dry and powdery. Often there are had his dream, these sand-storms had been 1900. THE STORY OF THE SPHINX. 287 DRAWN BY HARRY FENN, FROM A PHOTOGRAP blowing around theSphinx for more thantwo thousand years, so you can imagine whata pile of sand had ac-cumulated against fact, he was all cov-ered up, except hishead. And he was coveredup in the year 1818,eighty-one years ago,when an Englishmannamed Caviglia under-took the task of dig-ging him out. He hadheard many interestingstories about the greatSphinx. In a book writ-ten by the celebra
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