"Yes."
"Then me have very good present!"
13. Now let me tell you something that will surprise you. The people of Egypt in the old, old days thought that their cats were gods.
14. They prayed to them and built temples to them. When the family cat died, all the people in the house shaved their eyebrows to show how sorry they were.—Best love to you all. FATHER.
[7. THROUGH THE CANAL.]
1. MY DEAR CHILDREN,—I have just sailed through a very wonderful canal. It joins two great seas together, and is now part of the way to India.
2. By means of this canal we can sail from England to India in three weeks. Before it was made the voyage took three months or more.
3. The canal was made more than forty years ago by a Frenchman. He dug a great ditch, and joined together a number of lakes. By doing so he made a waterway from sea to sea. This waterway is about a hundred miles long.