Fig. 299.—The head of the Sphinx should look like this.
Carve the Wonderful Sphinx
with its body like a crouching lion and its head, like a man’s, modelled from that of an ancient Egyptian. The original is an enormous queer creature hewn from stone and made before the pyramids were built; consequently, it is very old. It was on the plains more than 4,000 years before the birth of Christ. Little wonder that it now appears worn and chipped and that, like your small sister’s doll its nose is broken off.
Fig. 300.—Cut this from green paper.
