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Show Some time ago the keeper of a museum was engaged in placing some new curios that had just arrived from Egypt, when he noticed the perplexed look of his attendant. "What's the matter, Smith?" he queried, going to the assistant. "Is there anything you don't understand?" 'Yes," answered Smith. "Here is a papyrus on which the characters are so badly traced that they are undecipherable. How shall I class it?" "Let me see," returned the keeper, examining the curio. "Just call it a doctor's prescription in the time of Pharaoh." New York Globe. |