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64 digging it out, and some erecting the brick walls. The usual way with the ancient Egyptians in some quarters was to dry the bricks in the sun, and even without straw they continue solid in walls erected four thousand years ago. On the other hand, where the bricks were made out of the Nile mud and similar material, they needed straw to prevent their cracking. Specimens of sun-dried bricks are to be seen in the British Museum, and many buildings, or the remains of them, still exist, such as, according to old historians like Herodotus, kings employed their poor enslaved captives in erecting. These points are mentioned here in connection with the picture, which is not merely for the eye, but is meant and adapted to suggest ideas to the mind, and to illustrate what is stated in plain language. Now we beg our young friends to turn in their Bibles to the opening chapter of the book of Exodus, and to give a careful reading to the story up to the fifteenth