Show WHY THEY WERE DROWNED new cause assigned for the disaster to pharaohs Phara biota in a sunday school in the midlands one of the teachers a hibernian waa more remarkable for his zeal than his learning on a certain morning he was in the middle of a plowing account of the overthrow of the egyptians in the bed sea when he volunteered to explain the subject more clearly ye see bhays he remarked when the red say parted in the middle the two halves became frozen into solid walls on each boide of the israelites and they passed over safely but the egyptians came after em the ice melted and they was all drowned on the the boys forming the Irish mans class glanced at each other but few of them were convinced ye dont behave me johnny exclaimed the teacher to one who had loudly expressed his doubts andade In dade thin an chwat part cant ye behave be lave about the ice sir answered johnny well chwat about the oice 1 I dont think the red sea ever did freeze sir its too near the equator for a moment and only a moment the irishman was at fault at length he exclaimed triumphantly sure there was no equa thor in thim days this reply ingenious as it was failed to satisfy the boys who soon had the irishman cornered again being obliged to withdraw his former statement he admitted that the equator must have been there I 1 tell he exclaimed that the egyptians came the oice melted sure they brought the equa thor along wid em scottish nights |