Tahuti

Anubis standing beside the bier; there are Isis and Nephthys, and there below Horus and Tahuti.

The Eye of Osiris 1902

I; and we both laughed heartily at the imaginary picture of Tahuti

The Eye of Osiris 1902

When Tahuti got his holidays, he would sometimes go out with his father and mother and sister on a fishing or fowling expedition.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

These are some of the stories that little Tahuti and Sen-senb used to listen to in the long evenings when they were tired of play.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

When little Tahuti has got over his baby aches, and escaped the ghosts, he begins to run about and play.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

Then, when he was four years old, the time came when he had to become "a writer in the house of books," which is what the Egyptians called a school-boy; so little Tahuti set off for school, still wearing no more clothes than the thread tied round his waist, and with his black hair plaited up into a long thick lock, which hung down over his right ear.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

When it came to Arithmetic, Tahuti was so far lucky that the number of rules he had to learn was very few.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

Altogether, it was great fun for the brother and sister, as well as for the grown folks, and Tahuti and Sen-senb liked nothing so well as when the gaily-painted little skiff was launched for a day on the marshes.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

University training or not, there was one thing that Tahuti was taught with the utmost care, and that was to be very respectful to those who were older than himself, never to sit down while an older person was standing in the room, and always to be very careful in his manners.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

For about four years this would go on, as long as Tahuti was what the

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898