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JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN

2d Slave [Levi's Slave] [To him who has just blown the signal] Out on thee, slave of Simeon, wilt thou shatter the dawn?

1st Slave [Simeon's Slave] Thinkest thou the dawn will wait for thee, wretched bondman of a starveling lord?

2nd Slave. My Lord Levi hath thrice more flocks than thy Simeon.

[The 2nd Slave comes down]

3rd Slave [Dan's Slave] Who speaketh of Levi and Simeon? Dan is mightier than both.

1st Slave [Contemptuously] The handmaid's son, forsooth!—Get thee to thy stinking camels.

[Enter Judah and Dan. They are superb figures; their costume suggests at once the shepherd and warrior combined. Judah is the elder]

Judah. [Sternly] What is this wrangling, slaves?

1st Slave. [With a deep obeisance] We are but praising our lords——

2nd Slave. And the hands that feed us.

Judah [Haughtily] Get ye to your labor and your toil. The sons of Jacob need no praise from the lips of the slaves.

[Exeunt the Slaves, but the movement of the Servants and the Women continues marching throughout the scene]

Dan [Laughing] The sun hath not risen in a happy hour for thee to-day!

[Enter Gad. He is of lighter, more youthful build than his brothers. Each of the Sons of Jacob,

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