Show t d a P a faira tale ale law nonnita THE QUIET SPHINX the river nile was wa talking to david the nile could do this out of school hours nearby was 1 vie the sphinx il have a date ap sphinx b I 1 n x asked nile you seel ile he wont a p e a k it makes me sexto lous s for excitement in ent sometimes oh ob david some say im a p poor 0 0 r housekeeper to let the mud set tie about la in the spring pring or summer just ns as untidy housekeepers 1 et e t dust settle about a and ad I 1 do this about once a year talk to the but r tell tal you sphinx why I 1 do it I 1 must have some excitement you think it of fa father ther nile but if you iou lived near a desert where camels and low voiced arabs traveled and near the sphinx I 1 believe do just such things every once in awhile 2 faybe but I 1 like camels so would I 1 it if I 1 could ride them nil nile said they are remarkable in many ways was but they never bring brine me any news I 1 if f only come running back to me from a trip and tell me odthe excitement if there were any quarrels or ft hat happened but no they come back and I 1 risk ask them to sit by bv me and they accept and then when I 1 say well cri camels mels the news they just chew chew chew chew they sang a song about their hewing chewing david told nile 1 IT I dont entirely blame the camels but there Is the sphinx too sometimes people go 50 up and talk to the sphinx deop people riddles e from other lands and ask him riddles aria and I 1 say to sphinx afterwards f ter wards by the way old chap that was a 11 roost most interesting looking gentleman w with 1 th the sweeping mustache who called on you today from where do does e s lie ha come old chap I 1 put it as friendly r endly as I 1 can but sphinx never tel tells s me ive never heard that sphinx tell a funny story or an interesting yarn and it so much matter except he looks forever as though he could 1 I get the lame iame way myself quiet and quieter as the days go by now and again I 1 get desperate and then I 1 let go of myself forget myself as the saying Is and overflow by the way your glass Is empty end and you must have some more fruit david thankfully accepted the invitation my recklessness really helps egypt nile went on for the low land or delta that ive made Is rich and fine and egypt often speaks of it as my great gift but social life inabit h a bit too quiet at times in camel sphinx and pyramid circles you know ill tell you about my home my father and mother and the cranky cook we have and lots of things kf it uke like david suggested nile looked very happy and david was much pleased to be able to give information too and nile said he would meet him later on and tell him more so until it was time for david t to go on he talked 00 and co compared in p a red notes with N nile I 1 I 1 e about the world he be knew and the world nile knew and their different kinds of homes nile told him that he be traveled four thousand miles and how they had bad built ditches and dams with which to store up some of his wa ter so that water could be carried ovtia over vie the farms continued tile making egypt one wandering of the richest farming countries of the entire world and david told nile about his travels travis is and adventures all of which nile thought were very interesting so he hid bid goodby good by hoping lie he said he would see nile again soon and meaning it too and then he went olt off once more to wander by himself while nile continued his wandering along lit hl river bed |