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 ILLUSTRATIONS

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

1. Their chief in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words 'Open, Sesame'

2. Ali Baba departed for the town a well satisfied man

3. As soon as he came in she began to jeer at him

4. Having transformed himself by disguise

5. She poured into each jar in turn a sufficient quantity of the boiling oil to scald the occupant to death

6. Then for the last figure of all she drew out the dagger