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Show a mnotj'B tot. There i a doll ia th British ansofs that is mora than 3000 years old. Whea some archaeologists were exploring aa aarieat Egypties royal tomb they earn upoa a sarcophagus containing th mummy of a littl princess 7 rear old. She was dreeeed aad interred la a mil aer beStting her raak, and ia her arm was found a little wooden doll. Th inscription gam th asm, raak and ags or tha littl girl aad th date of her death, but it aaid nothing about tha quaint littl weadea Egyptiaa doll. This, however, was se tightly clasped ia th arm of th mammy that it was videat that tha child had died with her oelered doll ia her arm. Th dnll occupies a piece ia a glass ease in th museum, and t here a great manr English children ge to gas upoa it. Harper s Weakly. |