Pharaoh has commanded that we must find straw for the making of bricks.

This morning I came far to search for it on behalf of a neighbour whose wife is ill in childbed.

But towards sundown I slipped and cut myself upon the edge of a sharp stone.

See," and holding up her foot she showed a wound beneath the instep from which the blood still dropped, a sight that moved both of us not a little, "and now I cannot walk and carry this heavy straw which I have been at such pains to gather." "Perchance she speaks truth, Brother," said the Prince, "and if we took her home we might earn no small reward from Jabez the Levite.

But first tell me, Maiden, what was that prayer which you made to the moon, that Hathor should help your heart ?" "Sir," she answered, "only the idolatrous Egyptians pray to Hathor, the Lady of Love." "I thought that all the world prayed to the Lady of Love, Maiden.