MOSES.


 THAT handsome lady, with jewels on her head and
around her neck and arms, is the daughter of a king.
She came with her maid-servants to walk on the bank of
a beautiful river and take a bath; they saw a strange-
looking basket on the shore among the tall green flags
growing in the edge of the water, and she sent her maid
to bring it to her. That is the basket one of the maids
is holding. In it was a little babe; and when the king's
daughter looked into the babe's face, there were tears on
its cheeks, and it was crying.
 How came a baby there ? The king's daughter knew,
for she said: This is one of the Hebrews' children."
The king of Egypt at that time did not like the Hebrew
people, and he was afraid they would get to be greater
and stronger than his own people. So he made a law
that all the little boy babies should be cast into the river.
This baby was so plump and fair his mother could not
bear to give him up. She kept him hid somewhere for
three months; but he grew so large and cried with such
a strong voice she could no longer hide him. To the
river he must go; but she could not cast him in for the