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 ALI BABA,

OR THE

FORTY THIEVES.

IN a town of Persia there lived two bric thers, the sons of a poor man, the of was named Cassim, and the other Ali Bal Cassim, the elder, married a wife with considerable fortune, and lived at his ease in a handsome house, with plenty of ser- vants; but the life of Ali Baba was as pole as himself, they dwelt in a mean cottages the suburbs of the city, and he maintained his family by cutting wood in a neighbour- ing forest. One day when Ali Baba was in the forest and preparing to load his asses with the wood he had cut, he saw a troop of hors men approaching toward him. He had a