“Because I have sworn to undo all I have done. Ay, I mean to try my best to be elected president of another society――the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and I will try to make them all happy.” “Oh! yes, yes, as happy as Pin is,” said Daisy, laughing. “Why, pa, I only work two hours a day, and Mam’selle is always pleased with me.” Then, her cherub face growing serious again: “And now,” she added, “I must have a pretty tombstone placed on Bob’s grave, and I will pay for it all myself out of my own money.” “Have you enough, darling?” “Well, if I haven’t, pa, you’ll give me more money; for I wish to pay for it all, all myself.” “So you shall, my love,” said Mr. Goodman, smiling. “But what kind of a monument is it to be?” “A white marble cross, pa. Then I’ll often go and hang wreaths upon it――wreaths of beautiful flowers; for I never, never, never will forget Flywheel Bob.” THE PONTIFICAL VESTMENTS OF EGYPT AND ISRAEL. Much discussion has arisen among commentators and archæologists with regard to the sacred vestments of the Jewish high-priest and the Levites; and yet it does not appear to have hitherto occurred to them to refer to the only sources whence additional and authentic information respecting these vestments can be obtained――namely, the monuments of ancient Egypt. Age after age have repeated attempts been made to remake the vestments of the Hebrew priesthood solely from the descriptions given in the Pentateuch; but hitherto the words of Moses have been subjected to the most discordant interpretations. In a book by the Abbé Ancessi, entitled _Egypt and Moses_,[46] the first part only of which has as yet appeared, we at last obtain a lucid idea of the Mosaical directions, the very vagueness of which testifies that the great Lawgiver is speaking of things already familiar to those whom he addresses. So much in this work is new, and so much is suggestive of what farther discoveries may bring to light, that we shall, with the kind permission of the learned author, make free use of it in the present notice. At the very epoch to which chronologists are wont to refer the origin of the human race we find on the borders of the Nile an already powerful nation. Most of the peoples whose names were in after-times to be renowned in history were then tribes of mere barbarians, dwelling in the depths of forests, in caverns, or on the islets of the lakes, their weapons rude flint-headed axes and arrows, and their ornaments the teeth of the wild beasts they had slain in the chase, a few amber beads or rings of cardium, threaded on tendons dried in the sun.