Show an old egyptian custom the ancient egyptians had probably the quaintest custom of collecting debts prizing the embalmed bodies of their ancestors above all else they naturally realized that the best way of making a debtor kick through was to hold a lien hen on bis his fathers father a body this was sometimes most embarrassing when it was found that the parent was still alive and it then became the duty of the debtor to give a bond to surrender the body of his parent as soon as it should be in a lilting condition to be admitted to pawn |