Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-06
The Mummy Mystery Explained--SingH-
lar DoYelODement.

The Springfield Republican has been furn-
ished by an antiquarian friend, with the fol-
lowing singular and interesting explanation of
The way in which the mummy recently unfold
ed at Boston, got into the wrong box
The announcement of the sex of Mr.. Glide
on's mummy, Immediately recalled to my
mind story which ] had read some years
since, in an old Egyptian manuscript, work
half of medicine and half of romance. To this
l referred upon opportunity, and my surprise
you can well imagine, when / found myself
reading of the very Priestess whose body Mr..
Giddon supposed he possessed The name
was the same. and the whole history explained
I send you an imperfect copy Of the transla-
ton:
Rite Thpunki was an officer of middling
rank in the service Of the temple at Thebes
In the discharge of his sacred duties he had
occasion daily to visit the abode of the High
Priest his superior, Got Thoth-I. Now Got
Thoth-I had one daughter, and she was tai
Ter than all the maidens of Thebes. Herfeet
and hands were large, even for one of her
proportions; her nose was real pug, and her
complexion sallow. Who would have deemed
it possible that she could disturb the peace of
any young mans hours? But her graces of
mind far outweighed the defects of person
al beauty. She played upon the cystrum as
only Isis could and not Crisis could surpass
the justice and wisdom of her opinions Rite
Thpunki, who at first Joined his brother priests
in the laugh at her homliness, did not long re-
main insensible to the mental charms which
she displayed, and Anch Phis, delighted at
seeing in her lover an appreciation of her tai
ents, and independence enough to brave the
jeers of his light minded associates, fully recip-
rocated the affection she had kindled. Fool
ish pairl They little knew the temper of the
naughty Got Thoth-I, and that he would new
er consent to their union. Rite-Thpunki had
scarcely declared his passion to the father
of his beloved, than he was overwhelmed with
torrent of contempt, and forbidden to enter
the palace or speak again TO his mistress on
pain of death.
The next morning as Anch Phis, whose du
ty it was to file the claws and bill of the sa-
cred Ibis, descending to the palace yard for
the purpose, the bird ran to her with its WON'T
ed haste, and raising its left wing disclosed
note pinned to one of its feathers. She seiz-
ed and read-"Bulbul! when the Dog Star
rises, meet me by the mystic Lotus Rite
Thpunki'' They met-one embrace few
hurried words, and Anch Phis, receiving
small powder in her hand, departs, leaving her
lover to mediate his plan.
In less than. twenty-four hours from this
meeting, the most distinguished physicians in
Thebes might have been seen vending their
way with anxious faces to the palace of Got
Thoth-I And why anxious? Alasl Anch
Phis, the delight of their eyes-the life of the
many festive entertainments her father had
given them in token of his esteem for the pro-
fession-Anch Phis was going to die. A sud
den illness was fast though gently, stealing
away her life. "Had she been young and
handsome" said Civ Bred Phil, the most sue
cessful and wealthy practitioner of Thebes. al
should think she was dying of disappointment
in matters of love" Imagine the horror of
Got-Thoth-I! He had killed his only child
His iron heart relented "Perhaps it is not
yet too late.'' A faint smile illumined the
face of his daughter. A messenger fleet as
wind, was sent to the temple for Rite-Thpunki
He comes but il is too late. She grasped his
hand, aud ceased to breathe.s
And now with voice scarcely audible from
well dissembled grief-the seven hours of
watching having expired e-Thpunki, begs
that the body of his love may be sent to his
CELL that he may embalm it-a last act of de-
votion. This request is granted. But why,
when his cell door is shut, and he is left alone
with his mistress lifeless form, and the. half
wrapped mummies which surround them
why does his eye gleam with wild, yet tender
delight2 He can hardly command his joy
He walks his narrow cell with rapid strides.
And see; he has taken that mummy of a COM
mon soldier and placed it by his lady's side
"Just her length he almost shouts, but re-
strains himself-%how fortunate ?'' And now
red Aldebaran, which ever and anon he gazed
at with straining eyes, shines through the mar
row window over his head 'eThe hour has
come" he says, and fixes his eye on the face
he aderes ssCan it be? Yes she livesl-A
sigh-a shudder-she opens her eyes. Al
gesture from her lover restrains an exclama-
ton she.is on the point of making-she comes
to herself and returns his ardent embrace
OF course the intelligent reader understands
the nature of the powder given under the mys-
tic Lotus. "We have played boldly and won!"
says Rite -Thpunki. A blush from his love
expresses her unspeakable happiness
Our story is soon told Anch Pbis remain
ed in the cell of her lover until seventy days,
the time required for embalming, had expired
The body of the soldier was returned to Got
Thoth-I as that ofhis daughter Rite Thpun-
XII performed the disconsolate lover at the fu-
neral to admiration, and few days after,
when there occurred a night of uncommon
darkness he and his beloved entered boat,
and floating down the Nile landed on a small
island where they spent the remainder of their
days in peace and happiness.
-OS-
CONVERSATION These quaint quatrans
aro from tbe Roston POST yvhera we occasion