{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_37679/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_37679","id":"gutenberg_37679","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37679","summary":null,"tags":["Arabs -- Folklore","Category: Adventure","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Fairy tales","Folklore -- Arab countries"],"text":"</pre>\n\n\n\nProduced by Larry B. Harrison, and the Archives and Special\nCollections, University Libraries, Ball State University\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Book Cover]\n\n  J. WRIGLEY,\n  PUBLISHER OF ALL KINDS OF COLORED TOY BOOKS\n\n  ALI BABA,\n  OR THE\n  FORTY THIEVES.\n\n  NEW YORK:\n  J. WRIGLEY, 394 GRAND STREET.\n\n\n\n\nHISTORY OF THE FORTY THIEVES.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nIn a town of Persia lived two brothers, sons of a poor man; one named\nCassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim, the elder, married a wife with a\nconsiderable fortune, and lived at his ease; but the wife of Ali Baba\nwas as poor as himself: they dwelt in a mean cottage in the suburbs,\nand he maintained his family by cutting wood. Ali Baba was in the\nforest preparing to load his asses with the faggots he had cut, when\nhe saw a troop of horsemen approaching. He hastily climbed a large\nthick tree, and hid himself among the branches. Ali Baba counted forty\nof them; each took a loaded portmanteau from his horse, and turning to\nthe rock, said, \"Open, Sesame;\" immediately a door opened, the robbers\npassed in, when the door shut of itself. In a short time the door\nopened again, and the robbers came out, who said, \"Shut, Sesame.\" The\ndoor instantly closed. Ali Baba ventured down, and approaching the\nrock, said, \"Open, Sesame.\" Immediately the door flew open. He brought\nhis asses, and took as many bags of gold coin as they could carry.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nAli Baba told his brother the secret of the cave. Cassim rose early\nnext morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests. He\nfound the rock, and having said, \"Open Sesame,\" gained admission,\nwhere he found more treasures than he expected, which made him forget\nthe word that caused the door to open. Presently he heard the sound of\nhorses' feet, which he concluded to be the robbers, who instantly put\nhim to death. Ali Baba drove to the forest, and on entering the cave,\nhe found the body of his brother cut into quarters. He took the\nquarters, and put them upon one of his asses, and delivered the body\nto Cassim's wife. Morgiana, a female slave in his brother's house, was\nsent early next morning to a poor cobbler, and gave him two pieces of\ngold to go with her blindfolded; taking him into the room where the\nbody was lying, bade him sew the mangled limbs together. Mustapha\nobeyed, having received two pieces of gold, and was led blindfolded\nthe same way back.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n[Illustration]\n\nCassim was buried with all due solemnity, and Ali Baba removed to the\nhouse of his deceased brother, of which he took possession.\n\nThe captain of the troop resolved to find out who possessed the secret\nof entrance into his cave, and disguising himself, went to the city\nearly one morning, when, accosting the cobbler, he was told of the job\nhe had, who for six pieces of gold, allowed himself to be blindfolded,\nand traced out the house of Cassim, which the robber marked with chalk.\nBuying nineteen mules and thirty-nine large jars, one full of oil, and\nthe rest empty, the captain put a man into each jar, properly armed, and\nthen proceeded to the street where Ali Baba dwelt. \"Sir,\" said he, \"I\nhave brought this oil a great way to sell; as I am quite a stranger,\nwill you let me put my mules into your courtyard, and direct me where I\nmay lodge to-night?\" Ali Baba welcomed the pretended oil merchant,\noffered him a bed in his own house, and invited his guest in to supper.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nMorgiana, sitting up later that night than usual, her lamp went out;\nshe took her oil pot in her hand, and approaching the first jar, the\nrobber within said: \"Is it time, captain?\" she replied, \"No, not\nyet;\" so she ran back to the kitchen, and brought out a large kettle,\nwhich she filled with oil, set it on a great wood fire, and as soon as\nit boiled, she went and poured into the jars sufficient of the boiling\noil to kill every man within.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe captain of the robbers arose to assemble his men. Coming to the\nfirst jar, he felt the steam of the boiled oil! He ran hastily to the\nrest, and found every one of his troop put to death. Full of rage, he\nforced the lock of the door, and made his escape over the walls.\n\nWithout letting any one into the secret, Ali Baba and Morgiana the\nnext night buried the thirty-nine thieves at the bottom of the\ngarden. The captain at length, however, determined to adopt a new\nscheme for the destruction of Ali Baba. He removed all the valuable\nmerchandise from the cave to the city, and took a shop exactly\nopposite to Ali Baba's house. Ali Baba's son went every day to his\nshop. The pretended Cogia Hassan soon appeared to be very fond of Ali\nBaba's son, offered him many presents, and often detained him to dinner.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nAli Baba thought it was necessary to make some return to these\ncivilities, and he invited Cogia Hassan to supper; Morgiana carried in\nthe first dish herself. The moment she looked at Cogia Hassan, she\nknew it was the pretended oil merchant. She sent the other slaves\ninto the kitchen, and waited at table herself; and while Cogia Hassan\nwas drinking, she perceived he had a dagger hid under his coat. She\nwent away, and dressed herself in the habit of a dancing-girl. As soon\nas she appeared at the parlor door, her master ordered her to come in\nto entertain his guest with some of her best dancing. Morgiana danced\nseveral times before the assembled company, until, coming opposite\nCogia Hassan, she drew a dagger from her girdle and plunged it into\nthe robber's heart. As a reward for her faithfulness, Ali Baba gave\nher in marriage to his son, and at his death put them in possession of\nhis immense wealth.\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\n\n\n  JUVENILE BOOKS AND STATIONERY,\n  PUBLISHED BY\n  J. 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