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4 bags of gold coin as they could carry, an put them on their backs, covering the with some loose faggots of wood, and after- words (not forgetting to say, Shut, Sesame he drove the asses back to the city, an having unscaded them in the stable belong ins to his cottage, carried the bags into the house, and spread the gold coin out upon the floor before his wife. His wife, delighted with possessing s much money, wanted to count it, but find- ing it would take up too much time, she wa resolved to measure it, and running to th house of Ali Baba's brother, she entreate them to lend her a small measure. Cassim's wife was very proud and envi ous : " I wonder,” she said to herself " what sort of grain such pour people call spare to measure, but I am determined " will find out what they are doing before she gave the measure, she artfully rubbed the bottom with some suet. Away ran Ali Baba's wife, measured he money, and having helped her husband to bury it in the yard, she carried back the measure to her brother in law's house, with out perceiving that a piece of gold was left sticking to the bottom of it. " Fine doings, indeed!" cried Cassim" wife to her husband, after examining this measure, “ your brother there, who pre- " tends to be so very poor, is richer that