my hands, and we passed on to the Great Door, and I was
lodged in the house of one of the King's sons, which was beautifully
furnished. In it there was a bath, and it contained representations of
the heavens and objects from the Treasury. And there [I found] apparel
made of royal linen, and myrrh of the finest quality which was used by
the King, and every chamber was in charge of officials who were
favourites of the King, and every officer had his own appointed duties.
And [there] the years were made to slide off my members. I cut and
combed my hair, I cast from me the dirt of a foreign land, together with
the apparel of the nomads who live in the desert. I arrayed myself in
apparel made of fine linen, I anointed my body with costly ointments, I
slept upon a bedstead [instead of on the ground], I left the sand to
those who dwelt on it, and the crude oil of wood wherewith they anoint
themselves. I was allotted the house of a nobleman who had the title of
_smer_, and many workmen laboured upon it, and its garden and its groves
of trees were replanted with plants and trees. Rations were brought to
me from the palace three or four times each day, in additions to the
gifts which the royal children gave me unceasingly. And the site of a
stone pyramid among the pyramids was marked out for me. The
surveyor-in-chief to His Majesty chose the site for it, the director of
the funerary designers drafted the designs and inscriptions which were
to be cut upon it, the chief of the masons of the necropolis cut the
inscriptions, and the clerk of the works in the necropolis went about
the country collecting the necessary funerary furniture. I made the
building to flourish, and provided everything that was necessary for its
upkeep. I acquired land round about it. I made a lake for the
performance of funerary ceremonies, and the land about it contained
gardens, and groves of trees, and I provided a place where the people on
the estate might dwell similar to that which is provided for a _smeru_
nobleman of the first rank. My statue, which was made for me by His
Majesty, was plated with gold, and the tunic thereof was of silver-gold.
Not for any ordinary person did he do such things. May I enjoy the
favour of the King until the day of my death shall come!

Here endeth the book; [given] from its beginning to its end, as it hath
been found in writing.

THE STORY OF THE EDUCATED PEASANT KHUENANPU

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