aid Joseph, and in three days' time the cup-bearer
would be once more free and hand the king his golden cup.

"But think of me when it shall be well with thee," added Joseph to the
cup-bearer, "and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention
of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. For, indeed, I was
stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done
nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

In three days all that Joseph had said came true. The chief baker was
hanged, and the chief butler was set free, and stood once more before
the king; only he quite forgot the man who had been so kind to him in
prison, and for two years never once thought of Joseph.

But at last something happened that reminded him. Once again it was a
dream, but this time the dreamer was Pharaoh, the great king. He had
sent for all the cleverest men in the land to explain his dreams to
him, but no one could find a meaning for them.

Then the cup-bearer suddenly remembered Joseph, and came and told the
king all that had happened to him when he was in prison. Surely it
would be worth while to try this man. So Pharaoh sent and brought
Joseph out of prison, and asked him if it was true that he could tell
the meaning of dreams.

[Illustration: He told them what he thought their dreams must mean.]

There was no pride nor boastfulness in Joseph's answer. Of himself, he
said, he could do nothing; but with God's help he would tell the king
all that he could.

So Pharaoh told his dreams, and as Joseph listened he knew at once
that they had been sent as a warning from God. Seven years of good
harvests and plenty of food were coming, and after that seven years
of famine, when, if all the food of the good years was eaten up, the
people would starve. The warning dreams had been sent so that the corn
might be saved up and stored. And it would be a good plan, said
Joseph, to find the very wisest and best man in all the land who would
undertake to do this.

Pharaoh listened thoughtfully, and soon made up his mind. He felt at
once that Joseph was a man to be trusted.

"Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this," he said, "there is none
so discreet and wise as thou art. Thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled. Only in the
throne will I be greater than thou."

What a wonderful adventure this was for Joseph! One day only a poor
unknown prisoner, and the next the