and that that was in a chamber which had been sealed with their seal.
Rut-tetet then told her to go and fetch some of the barley, for she was
quite certain that when her husband Rāuser returned he would make good
what she took. Thereupon the handmaiden went to the chamber, and broke
it open, and she heard in it loud cries and shouts, and the sounds of
music and singing and dancing, and all the noises which men make in
honour of the birth of a king, and she went back and told Rut-tetet what
she had heard. Then Rut-tetet herself went through the room, and could
not find the place where the noises came from, but when she laid her
temple against a box, she perceived that the noises were inside it. She
then took this box, which cannot have been of any great size, and put it
in another box, which in turn she put in another box, which she sealed,
and then wrapping this in a leather covering, she laid it in a chamber
containing her jar of barley beer or barley wine, and sealed the door.
When Rāuser returned from the fields, Rut-tetet related to him
everything that had happened, and his heart was exceedingly glad, and he
and his wife sat down and enjoyed themselves.

A few days after these events Rut-tetet had a quarrel with her
handmaiden, and she slapped her well. The handmaiden was very angry, and
in the presence of the household she said words to this effect: Dost
thou dare to treat me in this way? I who can destroy thee? She has given
birth to three kings, and I will go and tell the Majesty of King Khufu
of this fact. The handmaiden thought that, if Khufu knew of the views of
Rāuser and Rut-tetet about the future of their three sons, and the
prophecies of the goddesses, he would kill the children and perhaps
their parents also. With the object in her mind of telling the king the
handmaiden went to her maternal uncle, whom she found weaving flax on
the walk, and told him what had happened, and said she was going to tell
the king about the three children. From her uncle she obtained neither