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Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-seph was bound. And the man on guard put them in charge of Jo-seph, who went in and out of the ward as he chose.And one morn when he came in to them he saw theywere sad, and asked them why it was. And they said, We have dreamed dreams, andthere is no one to tell us what they mean. And Jo-seph said, Tell me them, I pray you. And the chief but-ler told his dream to Jo-seph Joseph and his Brethren, 85 first. And he said, In my dream I saw a vine, that putforth three branch-es and brought forth ripe grapes.And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shallPha-ra-oh liftup thine head, and put theeback in thyplace, and thoushalt serve himas of old. Butthink of mewhen it shallbe well withthee; speak ofme to the king,and bring meout of this house. And thebut-ler said thathe would. Then thechief cook toldhis dream; andhe said, In my dream I had three white bas-kets onmy head. And in the top one were all sorts of bakemeats for the king. And the birds did eat out ofthe bas-ket that I bore on my head,
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jo-sephs coat. S6 History of the Old Testament And Jo-seph said to him, In three days shallPha-ra-oh lift up thy head and hang thee on a tree;and the birds shall eat the flesh from thy bones. The third day was the kings birth-day, and hemade a great feast. And he put the chief but-lerback in his place, and hung the chief cook; just asJo-seph had said he would do. But the chief but-lergave not a thought to Jo-seph, nor spoke one goodword for him to the king, as he had said he would. Two years from this time the king had a dream,from which he woke, and then fell asleep and dreamtthe self-same dream. This was such a strange thingthat it made the king feel ill at ease. And he sentfor all the wise men in the land to tell him what thesedreams meant. Then the chief but-ler spoke to the king, and saidthat when he and the cook were in jail, there was ayoung man there, a Jew, whom the chief of the guardmade much use of. And we told him our dreams,and he told us what they meant. And it came outj

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