isto be found in comedy and burlesque. Ancient Egypt was amerry country. Its inhabitants were as pleased as children overthe simplest and most homely jokes ; jests, fantastic tales, andfables in which animals acted like men and women, were aspopular with them as with their successors in… … \ \ Fig. 27S.—Battle of the Cats and Rats. From Prifsc. Prisse reproduces the most interesting part of the Turinpapyrus, and we have copied a fragment of his plate (Fig. 27S). In the first group, four animals—an ass, a lion, a crocodile, and amonkey—make up a quartette, playing on such musical…
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