The modern Egyptian is nearly as good as Ah Sin, when playing the game of " Fleece your brethren." Employ one to get you some mummy peas at a big figure, and he will get you the mummy and carefully unwrap its rags, when lo! and behold ! you may see the peas roll out before your eyes ! The delighted Yankee or Britisher smilingly carries home his prize and plants them. It is nothing to him that it is but the modern purple flowered bush pea, seeds of which he could get anywhere for a few pennies. These came from an " old mummy, you know".