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Saturday 10th June 1995
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                The Mystery of the Mummy


It was a sunny afternoon in Egypt. The time was July 2500 BC. Haw was baking a
cake. He loved baking cakes, because he was the most skilled baker and
confectioner in Egypt. Everybody loved his little honey sweets, with a small
insect in the middle.
  Haw had finished baking the cake's bottom and decided to begin baking the
filling. But then he realised he had no honey left. He looked at the house of
his only neighbour and saw that it was empty. He began to write a letter to his
neighbour, requesting more honey. Halfway across the letter he had a sudden
heart attack and died.
  Haw's body was soon discovered and since he had been a wealthy man, he was
mummified and placed inside one of the smallest pyramids.

The mummy lay undisturbed for almost four millennia, until a daring searchparty
led by the famous explorer and aegyptologist Juliet Juliet found it. She took
it from the sarcophagus and her bearers carried it to the museum, where it was
put into a glass coffin.
  People came to see the mummy and watched at amazement at its 4400-year-old
linings. All was well, at least for now.
  One day one of the visitors had a sudden heart attack in front of the mummy
and collapsed down to the floor. Juliet Juliet happened to see the incident and
instantly phoned for a medic.

The medic came with his nurse and stretcher. The man was lifted onto the
stretcher and the medic dug up his electric-shock-inducing device, which he
used to cure heart attacks.
  Wires were placed into the man's chest and power was connected. The medic,
his nurse and Juliet Juliet all watched in amazement. Nothing happened in the
man's body.
  But what they didn't see was that inside the glass coffin, the mummy was
beginning to stir. First it moved very little, but after a few minutes it was
moving so hard it thumped against the metal floor of its casket.
  The nurse was feeling bored due to the lack of activity in the body of the
man she was nursing and turned her attention to the thumping sound she had
heard. She fainted away immediately.

The mummy had finished thumping when the medic turned the power off. Both he
and Juliet Juliet, who were braver than then nurse, turned to watch the mummy
instead of their patient. The mummy rose into a sitting position, shattering
the top of the glass cover. Soon it stepped out of its case.
  The mummy began to speak in an incomprehensible language. Juliet Juliet
called for the museum's head aegyptologist, Miquel Miquel. He arrived soon and
found out what was wrong. After his initial shock of seeing a mummy alive and
mobile he began to come to speaking terms with the mummy.
  Miquel Miquel translated the mummy's message into a form Juliet Juliet and
the medic could understand. The message was that the man who was inside the
mummy, Haw, wanted to finish writing his letter so he could get more honey and
finish baking his cake.

Juliet Juliet and Miquel Miquel took Haw into the museum's aeroplane, leaving
the medic to wake up the nurse, who still lay immobile on the floor, breathing
very deeply and frequently.
  Haw showed Miquel Miquel the place he had lived in and Juliet Juliet landed
the plane there. All three persons stepped into the house and Haw found the
letter he had been writing and the cake he had been baking 4400 years ago.
  Juliet Juliet and Miquel Miquel sat down of the ground and Haw wrote his
letter. But then, after posting it, he realised his neighbour had already died
4350 years ago. So he asked Miquel Miquel for some honey instead.
  Miquel Miquel gave Haw the honey and he resumed baking the cake. After he had
finished it, all three persons ate it with great delight, although the rock-
hard bottom of the cake gave them several dental injuries.