the Prince into a sleep, placed the woman beside him, and compared-the word in the ancient papyrus is
'fitted'-them. Alas! She was not harmonious. She was too small. So Khnum made another doll. But this
was too large. And not until six were shaped and destroyed was true harmony attained, the Gods
satisfied, the fortunate Prince given his perfect wife-who had been a doll.
"Ages after, in the time of Rameses III, it happened that there was a man who sought for and who found
this secret of Khnum, the Potter-God. He had spent his whole life in seeking it. He was old and bent and
withered; but the desire for women was still strong within him. All that he knew to do with that secret of
Khnum was to satisfy that desire. But he felt the necessity of a model. Who were the fairest of women
whom he could use as models? The wives of the Pharaoh, of course. So this man made certain dolls in
the shape and semblance of those who accompanied the Pharaoh when he visited his wives. Also, he