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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Joseph the Dreamer, by Amy Steedman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Joseph the Dreamer Author: Amy Steedman Release Date: October 9, 2009 [EBook #30218] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOSEPH THE DREAMER *** Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Juliet Sutherland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Joseph as Ruler of Egypt speaks to his brothers.] JOSEPH THE DREAMER By AMY STEEDMAN [Illustration] THOMAS NELSON & SONS NEW YORK * * * * * The Story of Joseph [Illustration: The coat of many colours.] This is the story of Joseph, the boy who had the strangest and most exciting adventures of any boy who ever lived. Joseph was but a little lad when his mother died. His father, Jacob, had loved that mother more than any one else in the world, so that when she died leaving Joseph and a baby brother, Benjamin, all the love in the father's heart turned to his two little sons. The elder brothers were strong, grown-up men, quite able to look after themselves, and no longer needing their father's care; so perhaps it was no wonder that Jacob made a special favourite of the little lad Joseph, and loved him best. At first the older brothers took no notice of their father's way with the younger boy; but as Joseph grew older they began to feel uneasy and envious. Why should this child be marked out for special favour? Their father took no pains to hide the fact that the boy was the apple of his eye. Even his clothes showed this. While the brothers wore the ordinary shepherd clothing, Joseph had a beautiful coat of many colours. His father had made it for him of different pieces of coloured cloth joined together, and it was so gay and beautiful that every one who saw him wearing it said, "This must be the son of a great chief!" But if the gay coat made them angry, they were more angry still wh
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