Then Joseph said: "The three branches are three days. Within three
days the king will take you out of prison, and you shall hand the
king's cup to him as you used to do."

Joseph also asked the butler, to think of him when he was again in the
king's palace, and speak to the king to bring him out of prison,
because he had been stolen from his own land, and he had done nothing
wrong that he should be put in prison.

Then the chief cook told his dream. He said that he dreamed that he
carried three baskets on his head, one above another.

In the highest one was all kinds of cooked meats for Pharaoh, and the
birds flew down and ate from the basket.

"The three baskets are three days," said Joseph as he said to the
butler, but he told the cook that in three days he would be put to
death, and hanged on a tree, where the birds would eat his flesh.

All this came true, for Pharaoh's birthday came, and he brought out the
chief butler to serve at a birthday feast, but he hanged the chief
cook. Yet the chief butler forgot Joseph, and did not speak to the
king about him as he might have done.

At the end of two long years, Pharaoh dreamed a dream. He thought he
stood by the river of Egypt, and saw seven cows looking well kept and
fat, came up out of the river.

Behind them came seven other cows, looking thin and poorly fed, and the
thin and poorly fed cows ate up the well-kept and fat ones.

And Pharoah had a second dream. He thought he saw seven heads of wheat
growing on one stalk--and they were all full of grain. After them came
seven thin heads of wheat with no grain in them; and the seven bad
heads of wheat ate up the seven good ones.

In the morning Pharaoh was troubled about these dreams, and called for
his wise men who worked magic for him, and they could tell him nothing.

Then the chief butler standing near the king remembered Joseph, and
told Pharaoh of the young Hebrew who had told the meaning of his dream,
and that of the chief cook, and they had come to pass as he had said,
so Pharaoh sent for Joseph and said to him:

"I have heard that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it."

Joseph answered the king humbly and wisely:

"It is not in me," he said, "God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace."

When the king had told his dream Joseph said:

"The dream is one," and then he showed him that the seven fat cows, and
the seven full heads of wheat meant seven good years in the land of
Egypt, when