That brother of a hippopotamus was easily taken in, and then he made me show him over the house.

First they found the great sycamore-chest which you had told me to take great care of too, then the papyrus-rolls on your writing-table, and so by degrees every written paper in the house.

They made no distinction, but put all together into the great chest and carried it downstairs; the little black box, however, lay safe enough in the pigeon-house.

My grandchild is the sharpest boy in all Sais! "When I saw them really carrying the chest downstairs, all the anger I'd been trying so hard to keep down burst out again.

I told the impudent fellows I would accuse them before the magistrates, nay, even before the king if necessary, and if those confounded Persians, who were having the city shown them, had not come up just then and made everybody stare at them, I could have roused the crowd to take my side.