. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . ompletely wedged in between twolarge stones of the cairn, and struggling feebly, with its legsuppermost. He instantly extricated it and placed it safely on theground, while the overjoyed dam bleated forth her thanks in amanner not to be misunderstood. An old goose that had been for a fortnight hatching in afarmers kitchen, was perceived, on a sudden, to be taken violentlyill. She soon after left the nest, and repaired to an out-housewhere there
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . ompletely wedged in between twolarge stones of the cairn, and struggling feebly, with its legsuppermost. He instantly extricated it and placed it safely on theground, while the overjoyed dam bleated forth her thanks in amanner not to be misunderstood. An old goose that had been for a fortnight hatching in afarmers kitchen, was perceived, on a sudden, to be taken violentlyill. She soon after left the nest, and repaired to an out-housewhere there was a young goose of the first year, which she broughtwith her into the kitchen. The young one immediately scrambledinto the old ones nest, sat, hatched, and afterwards brought upthe brood. The old goose, as soon as the young one had takenher place, sat clown by the side of the nest, and shortly after the young goose had never entered the kitchen before, therewas no other way of accounting for it than by supposing thatthe old one had some way of communicating her thoughts andanxieties, which the other was perfectly able to THE CATACOMBS OF BENI HASSAN ,c^^)HAT the Egyptians exceeded all other ancient nations inlearning, arts and civilization, is universally known Itwas here that Homer, nearly a thousand years beforeChrist, gathered materials for song, and having refined andexpanded his sublime genius with Egyptian lore, produced hisimmortal poems. Here Solon and Lycurgus found the arche-types of their celebrated laws ; here Pythagoras learned theprincipal tenets of his philosophy ; here Plato imbibed thatreligious mysticism, those beautiful illusions, and those eloquentbut fanciful theories, which characterize his works. Greece wasindebted to Egypt, perhaps, for letters, and, undoubtedly, for themysteries of religion. The polity of the Egyptians was equal to their skill in the arts[290] THE CATACOMBS OF BENI HASSAN. 291 and sciences. It is lamentable, how
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