JOSEPH AND JACOB.


 IT was twenty-two years from the time Jacob sent
Joseph the hated boy to look after his brethren, until they
all stood before Joseph the governor in the palace. Was
Joseph angry then ? No, he said to them, Be not angry
with yourselves, for God did send me before you to pre-
serve life. There are yet five years of famine; haste and
go up to my father and say unto him, Thus saith thy son
Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down
unto me, tarry not." Joseph kissed each one of his broth-
ers, but most of all Benjamin, and they all talked and
cried so loud, it was soon told the king that all those
strange-looking men who had been coming there from
Canaan were Joseph's brothers. The king told Joseph
to have his father and all his people come there to live,
and that he should send them food and wagons to bring
them to the best part of his land.
 Had Joseph forgotten the coat of many colors? He
gave each of his brothers a suit of clothes, but to Benja-
min five suits. He sent his father ten asses loaded with
the good things of Egypt, and ten more with food for
him on his journey; and wagons enough to bring all
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