back somewhere in the roof of his mouth but the next time he would not be frightened and pull the bed clothes over his head and convinced of his own courage he lay night after night thinking of all the great things he would ask the old man and of the benefit he would derive from his teaching but the brook samuel did not appear again perhaps because the nights were so dark joseph was told the moon would become full again but sleep closed his eyes when he should have been waking and in the morning he was full of fear that perhaps samuel had come and gone away disappointed at not finding him awake but that could not be for if the prophet had come he would have awakened him as he had done before his had not come again a reasonable thing to suppose for when the dead return to the earth they do so with much pain and difficulty and if the living whom they come to instruct cannot keep their eyes open the poor dead wander back and do not try to come between their descendants and their fate again but i will keep awake he said and resorted to all sorts of devices keeping up a repetition of a little phrase he will come to night when the moon is full and lying with one leg hanging out of bed and these proving he his bed with but no appeared and little by little he hope of ever being able to summon samuel to his bedside and accepted as an explanation of his persistent absence that samuel had performed his duty by coming once to visit him and would not come again unless some new necessity should arise it was then that the conviction began to mount into his brain that he must learn all that his grandmother could tell him about and david and learning from her that they had been a great trouble to samuel he resolved never to allow a thought into his mind that the prophet would deem unworthy to become worthy of his was now his aim and when he heard that samuel was the author of two sacred books it seemed to him that his education had been neglected for he had not yet been taught to read another step in his advancement was the discovery that the language his father his and himself spoke was not the language spoken by samuel the brook and every day he pressed his grandmother to tell him why the jews had lost their language in till he exhausted the old woman s knowledge and she said well now son if you want to hear any more about you must ask your father for i have told you all i know and joseph waited eagerly for his father to come home and him to tell him a story but after a long day spent in the counting house his father was often too tired to take him on his knee and instruct him for joseph s curiosity was and very often wearisome now joseph his father said you will learn more about these things when you are older and why not now he asked and his grandmother answered that it was change of air that he wanted and not books and they began to speak of the fierce summer that had taken the health out of all of them and of how necessary it was for a child of that age to be sent up to the hills dan looked into his son s face and seemed to be right a thin wan little face that the air of the hills will he said and he began at once to make arrangements for joseph s departure for a hill village saying that the pastoral life of the hills would take his mind off samuel hebrew and was doubtful if the would joseph s mind as completely as his father thought she hoped however that they would as soon as he hears the sound of the pipe his father answered a prophecy this was for while joseph was resting after the fatigue of the journey he was awakened suddenly by a sound he had never heard before and one that interested him strangely his nurse told him that the sound he was hearing was a shepherd s pipe the shepherd plays and the flock follows she said and when may i see the flock coming home with the shepherd he asked to morrow evening she answered and the time the brook seemed to him to so eager was he to see the flocks returning and to watch the she goat and in the spring as his strength came back he followed the and heard from them many stories of wolves and dogs and from a shepherd lad whom he had chosen as a companion he acquired knowledge of the and the cries and the habits of birds and whither he was to seek their nests it had become his ambition to possess all the wild birds eggs one that was easily satisfied till he came to the egg of the which he sought in vain hearing of it often now here now there till at last he and the shepherd lad ventured into a dangerous country in search of it and remained there till news of their absence reached and dan set out in great alarm with an armed escort to recover his son he was very angry when he came upon him but the trouble he had been put to and the he had had to pay were very soon forgotten so great was his pleasure at the strong healthy boy he brought back with him and whose first question to was are there in � father doesn t know his grandmother could not tell him but she was willing to make inquiries but before any news of the egg had been 