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# MAKING BRICKS IN EGYPT  UR young readers will naturally look at the picture, with its figures and forms of labor happily not now seen among us, but for all that full of sad suggestion. The men are carrying heavy burdens under the hot sun, whose heat is to dry and harden the bricks laid in order on the ground, and by-and-by to be carried and set in their places in the wall seen in the background. Two men are particularly to be noticed—one at the wall, and one at the end of the row of men laying the bricks on the ground. Each carries a long rod; one is holding it at his ease behind him, the other is about to lay it on the backs of the working slaves. These are the “taskmasters,” and their features are not the same with those of the toilers. Of these some are carrying the clay, some

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