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wife, who had been watching from the window that he had shot the burglar dead. She burst out laughing and told him, "You silly old fool, you have shot your own shirt which I hung out there this afternoon". Immediately he dropped on his knees exclaiming "Thank God I was not in my shirt when I shot it."

On paying another visit to the pyramids the other day I noticed two excavations in the north side of the Cheops Pyramid. These are about 160' by 5 or 6' feet deep and about the same width. Originally they were lined with blocks of hard white stone. They are commonly termed water trenches, but on making further enquiries I find that the best authorities consider them to have been used for astronomical purposes. By filling with water and stretching a string across, it would be easy to get the correct astronomical time by the passing of a certain star.

In the building of the Cheops pyramid extraordinary care was taken to prevent the crushing of the King's chamber, by the enormous weight of the superincumbent structure. There are five retaining chambers made of huge blocks of granite, where one would

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