"It was nice when we used to dress up in my father's theatrical finery and cloaks."
"And when you made us dolls out of clay.".
"Or when we performed the Olympian games."
"I was always the teacher when we played at school with our little brothers and sisters."
"Arsinoe gave you most trouble."
"Oh! and what fun when we went fishing!"
"And when we brought home the fishes and mother gave us meal and raisins to cook them."
"Do you remember the festival of Adonis, and how I stopped the runaway horse of that Numidian officer?"
"The horse had knocked over Arsinoe, and when we got home mother gave you an almond-cake."
"And your ungrateful sister bit a great piece out of it and left me only a tiny morsel. Is Arsinoe as pretty as she promised to become? It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. For eight months I had to work for the master at Ptolemais, and often saw the old folks but once in the month."