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"But," said Durtal, "why is the sparrow-hawk chosen in preference to other birds?" "Well, it has always been, since remotest antiquity, the harbinger of charms. In Egypt the god with the head of a hawk was the one who possessed the science of the hieroglyphics. Formerly in that country the hierogrammatists swallowed the heart and blood of the hawk to prepare themselves for the magic rites.
Having come to the end of his reading he said: "Sir, this passage is to be translated as: Those of the Egyptians who are well informed study first the writings called epistolographia, then the hieratic, of which the hierogrammatists make use, and finally the hieroglyphics." And then taking off his barnacles and shaking them triumphantly he continued: "Ah! Ah!
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