Preface
_ BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW
A Novel BY
ALBION W. TOURGEE, LL.D.,
LATE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA
THIS VOLUME I GRATEFULLY DEDICATE TO
My Wife；
TO WHOSE UNFLINCHING COURAGE, UNFALTERING FAITH, UNFAILING CHEER, AND STEADFAST LOVE, I OWE MORE THAN MANY VOLUMES MIGHT DECLARE.
TRANSLATION:
[From an ancient Egyptian Papyrus-Roll, recently discovered.]
It came to pass that when Pharaoh had made an end of giving commandment that the children of Israel should deliver the daily tale of bricks, but should not be furnished with any straw wherewith to make them, but should instead go into the fields and gather such stubble as might be left therein, that Neoncapos, the king‘s jester, laughed.
And when he was asked whereat he laughed, he answered, At the king‘s order.
And thereupon he laughed the more.
Then was Pharaoh, the king, exceeding wroth, and he gave commandment that an owl be given to Neoncapos, the king‘s jester, and tha

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