Che Flight into Lgypt.

 

_ LOOK at the coloured picture, There is a woman sitting upon an ass with her baby in
herarms. Close by is the father with the ass upon which the mother has been riding. We
have often met, in our own country lanes, Hee travellers like these, resting on their way.

But who are these people ?

We can see in a moment that they are poor, and they look very tired, as if they had
come a long way, and are glad to rest for alittle. Where have they come from, and
where are they going?

It is the road that leads from the village of Bethlehem southward to Egypt, a long,
difficult, dangerous journey. You can tell that from the man’s face as he looks up and
down the road, as if he were afraid of something. What can it be? Who would trouble
themselves about such humble peasant- stalls as these? What matter can it be to any one
what becomes of them ?

Ah! when we learn their names we can understand it all.

The man is Joseph the carpenter; the mother is the Blessed Virgin Mary; the