CHAPTER 11 And thus there came to be many great nations, which knew how to make atemples,
2 And bmonuments,
3 And cinscriptions in stone,
4 And dwars,
5 And eslaves,
6 And all the other fthings that are necessary for civilization.
7 One of these was the Gypsy tribe, which was gChosen by the Gods to be the greatest of all nations,
8 hBecause it sat beside the Nile River, which was the source of all life,
9 And very important,
10 Because the rest of the earth was a total idesert,
11 Made of jsand and rocks and other not very lively stuff,
12 kWhich may explain why the Gypsies spent most of their time thinking about death,
13 And planning for death,
14 And lwriting about death, including a Book of the Dead,
15 mAnd building great big tombs called pyramids,
16 nIncluding the Great Pyramid called Khufu,
17 Which is very mysterious and old and probably haunted,
18 Especially because no one can remember how it was built.
CHAPTER 21 And the Gypsies did a lot of mysterious things,
2 For a very very long time,
3 Including building many monuments and temples,
4 Such as the oSphinx, which had a lion's body and a woman's head and a priddle,
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5 And the tomb of King Tut, which was full of gold and also haunted,
6 And many many stone inscriptions,
7 Called hieroglyphics,
8 Which celebrated the Gypsy Gods, who had names like Ra, Horus, Ammon, and so forth,
9 As well as kings and queens, who had names like Ramses, Horemheb, Nefertiti, qPtolemy, and so on,
10 And were wrapped up like rmummies and buried inside the spyramids with all their tthings and all their slaves.
CHAPTER 31 And then there was a king called uAkhnaton,
2 vWho had a funny-shaped head and a potbelly,
3 wWhich made him believe that there was really only one God,
4 xWhose name was yAton,
5 zAnd who had created everything all by himself,
6 aaEt cetera,
7 But Akhnaton died, and the bbapes called Gypsies went back to doing things the old way, with lots of Gods.
8 But that didn't work out either,
9 ccBecause the Gods allowed the Gypsies to be invaded a lot by other ddtribes of Chosen Apes,
10 Who took practically everything away from the Gypsies,
11 eeIncluding Cleopatra, who was a beautiful queen rolled up in a rug,
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