Page 219 - Four Thousand Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby

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z ~ --ft the palace, still

T5 service armor,

^anots which was all
n^y. The two queens,

roper, took over the
^d to the fields and

7^'?* ^one saddle-querns,

-^■-Sive-sriaped clay ovens,
o the care of the children

capter. And their thoughts

nd brothers marching and

ro vinces down river.

uths wore on, messengers

y river boat, bringing dis-

esent, and when the boats

sdezt crowds would gather outside the

el ease of the bulletins. Each time they

ler anvanres, of provincial garrisons de-

ured, of new provinces liberated. And in

an evening the crews of the messenger

the storv. They told of uprisings in the
boats added details
pproach of the army of Thebes, of tumul-
northern lands at th
garlanded troops parading through the
tuous welcomes an
■v told, too, of bitter struggles, with garri-
liberated cities. But
last man, of summan- punishment meted

out bv the populace to collaborators and
hrrnicrht rumors of the army that Apopi III, th y

the grand army with its
kine