The Egyptian Enchantment: A Lottie Lipton Adventure
Argh she moaned Why does Uncle Bert always set the hardest homework Lottie was sitting at a coffee table in the middle of the small untidy apartment that she shared with her great uncle Bert She looked around at the mess piles and piles of books shelves crammed with ancient artifacts that Uncle Bert had collected on his digs in Egypt and photographs of his time in Africa Her eyes rested on a picture of Uncle Bert with a young smiling couple in the desert They were her parents but they had been killed in an accident when a tomb they were 2
exploring caved in Her great uncle Bert had taken Lottie back to London where he had managed to get a job and a place to live in the greatest museum in the world the British Museum Living in the museum had its perks Lottie could roam the halls when the public had gone home she could read any book she liked from the vast library and she didn’t even have to go to school Although sometimes she wished she did as the lessons that Uncle Bert gave her were getting harder and harder She tried to read the question again but all the words jumbled up in front of her eyes so she stepped away for a while 3
It was Sunday morning and the museum wasn’t yet open to visitors The sunlight came streaming in through the apartment window and Lottie decided that a walk around the museum would be just the thing to clear her head and make her brain work again As Lottie walked down one of the many halls that filled the museum mulling over her tricky homework she heard a call come from the main entrance hall Lottie Is that you Come and give me a hand Lottie jogged over to where the sun rolled in through the museum’s large open doors Giant pillars reached up to the high 4
ceiling Standing in the main entrance was Uncle Bert He was a round fellow with a bushy white moustache and a face that went pink when he got excited like he was getting right now He stood over a large wooden packing case with a crowbar in his hand How’s the homework going my dear asked Uncle Bert Um fine Almost done Lottie fibbed Ooh Is this a new exhibit she asked quickly changing the subject and succeeding in stopping Uncle Bert from asking any more homework-related questions 5
