Saturday 10th June 1995 (C) JIPsoft 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.