Show W WHY HY THEY WERE DROWNED new cause assigned for the disaster to ph pharaohs Phara swa hosts in a sunday school in the midlands one of the teachers a hibernian was more remarkable for his zeal thau than his learning on a certain morning he was in the middle oan of a glowing account of the overthrow of the egyptians in the red eed sea when he be volunteered to explain the subject more clearly ye see bhays he remarked when the red eed say parted in the middle the two halves became frozen into solid walls on e each ch boide of the israelites and they passed over safely but the egyptians came after em cm 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 con minced ye dont behave me johnny exclaimed the teacher to one who had loudly expressed his bis doubts andade In dade thin an chwat part candye cant ye belive be lave about the ice sir answered johnny well chwat about the oice 1 I dont think the red sea ever did freeze sir Ws 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 cm scottish aig bights ats coll collateral tem and you married certainly y and do not value molote my loTe As collateral yes when a moment later the duke complained that the biscuits were not such as his mother to make Ma keber her grace experienced a feeling of savage grutti lation detroit tribune |