IN EGYPT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21130, 12 March 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

IN EGYPT.

THE RIDDLE OF THE! SPHINX

There is in Egypt a largo monument called tho Sphinx. It was carved in stone by tho Egyptians hundreds and hundreds of years ago. It has the face of a woman, but the body and claws of a lion, and from its place in the desert it looks out on the world around. The Sphinx is supposed to ask a riddle that nobody can answer, but there is a story that one day in ancient Egypt the throne of Thebes was offered to anyone who could answer tho riddle. So one day a man went up to the Sphinx and asked it what the riddle was. This wus the riddle:— " What wonderful creature is there that first walks on four legs, then on two and then on three ? " "Ah!" said the man. "I know; it is man." " First when he is a baby he crawls on four; when he grows older ho walks on two; and when he is an old man he walks with a stick, and so ho has three legs." When the Sphinx found that her riddle was answered she cast herself down and died.