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15 an oil-jar, would have screamed out, bat the prudent Morgiana instantly recollected herself, and replied softly, No, not yet, lie still till I call you." She passed on to every jar, receiving the same question, and making the same answer, till she came to the last, which was really filled with oil. Morgiana was now convinced that this was a plot of the robbers to murder her master Ali Baba, so she ran back to the kitchen, and brought out a large kettle, which she filled with oil, and set it on a great wood fire, and as soon as it boiled, she went and poured into the jars sufficient of the boiling oil to kill every man within them. Having done this, she put out her fire, and her lamp, and crept softly to her cham- ber. The captain of the robbers, bearing every thing quiet in the house, and perceiving 10 light any where, arose, and went down into the vard to assemble his men. Coming to the first jar, he felt the steams of the boiled oil, he ran hastily to tie rest, and found every one of his troop put to death in the same manner. Full of rage and despair at having failed in his design, he forced the lock of a door that led to the garden, and made his escape over the walls. On the following morning, Morgiana re- lated to her master Ali Baba his wonderful deliverance from the pretended oil mer-