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Speaker 1: The Forty Thieves from The Blue Fairy Book. This is
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Speaker 1: Recording by Karen Savage. The Blue Faerybook by Andrew Lang
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Speaker 1: The Forty Thieves in a town in Persia. There Dwelt
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Speaker 1: two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Cassim
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Speaker 1: was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty,
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Speaker 1: while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children
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Speaker 1: by cutting wood in a neighboring forest and selling it
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Speaker 1: in the town. One day, when Ali Baba was in
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Speaker 1: the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback
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Speaker 1: coming toward him in a cloud of dust. He was
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Speaker 1: afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety.
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Speaker 1: When they came up to him and dismounted, he counted
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Speaker 1: forty of them. They unbridled their horses and tied them
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Speaker 1: to trees. The finest man among them, whom Ali Baba
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Speaker 1: took to be their captain, went a little way among
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Speaker 1: some bushes and said opens so assame, so plainly that
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba heard him. Footnote sesame is a kind of
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Speaker 1: grain end footnote. A door opened in the rocks, and
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Speaker 1: having made the troop go in, he followed them, and
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Speaker 1: the door shut again of itself. They stayed some time inside,
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Speaker 1: and Ali Baba, fearing they might come out and catch him,
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Speaker 1: was forced to sit patiently in the tree. At last
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Speaker 1: the door opened again, and the forty thieves came out
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Speaker 1: as the captain went in last. He came out first
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Speaker 1: and made them all pass by him. He then closed
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Speaker 1: the door, saying shut sesame. Every man bridled his horse
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Speaker 1: and mounted. The captain put himself at their head, and
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Speaker 1: they returned as they came. Then Ali Baba climbed down
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Speaker 1: and went to the door concealed among the bushes, and
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Speaker 1: said open sesame, and it flew open. Ali Baba, who
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Speaker 1: expected a dull, dismal place, was greatly surprised to find
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Speaker 1: it large and well lighted, hollowed by the hand of man,
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Speaker 1: in the form of a vault, which received the light
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Speaker 1: from an opening in the ceiling. He saw rich bales
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Speaker 1: of merchandise, silk stuff, brocades, all piled together, and gold
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Speaker 1: and silver, and heaps and money in leather purses. He
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Speaker 1: went in and the door shut behind him. He did
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Speaker 1: not look at the silver, but brought out as many
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Speaker 1: bags of gold as he thought his asses, which were
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Speaker 1: browsing outside could carry, loaded them with the bags, and
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Speaker 1: hid it all with faggots. Using the words shut sesame.
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Speaker 1: He closed the door and went home. Then he drove
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Speaker 1: his asses into the yard, shut the gates, carried the
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Speaker 1: money bags to his wife and emptied them out before her.
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Speaker 1: He bade her keep the secret, and he would go
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Speaker 1: and bury the gold. Let me first measure it, said
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Speaker 1: his wife. I will go borrow a measure of someone
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Speaker 1: while you dig the hole. So she ran to the
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Speaker 1: wife of Cassim and borrowed a measure. Knowing ali Baba's poverty,
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Speaker 1: the sister was curious to find out what sort of
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Speaker 1: grain his wife wished to measure, and artfully put some
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Speaker 1: suet at the bottom of the measure. Ali Baba's wife
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Speaker 1: went home and set the measure on the heap of
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Speaker 1: gold and filled it and emptied it often to her
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Speaker 1: great content. She then carried it back to her sister,
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Speaker 1: without noticing that a piece of gold was sticking to it,
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Speaker 1: which Cassim's wife perceived directly her back was turned. She
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Speaker 1: grew very curious and said to Cassim when he went home, Cassim,
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Speaker 1: your brother is richer than you. He does not count
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Speaker 1: his money, he measures it. He begged her to explain
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Speaker 1: this riddle, which she did by showing him the piece
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Speaker 1: of money and telling him where she had found it.
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Speaker 1: Then Cassim grew so envious that he could not sleep
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Speaker 1: and went to his brother in the morning before sunrise.
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba, he said, showing him the gold piece. You
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Speaker 1: pretend to be poor, and yet you measure gold. By this,
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba perceived that through his wife's folly, Cassim and
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Speaker 1: his wife knew their secret. So he confessed all and
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Speaker 1: offered Cassim a share that I expect, said Cassim, but
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Speaker 1: I must know where to find the treasure, otherwise I
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Speaker 1: will discover all and you will lose all. Ali Baba,
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Speaker 1: more out of kindness than fear, told him of the
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Speaker 1: cave and the very words to use. Cassim left Ali Baba,
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Speaker 1: meaning to be beforehand with him and get the treasure
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Speaker 1: for himself. He rose early next morning and set out
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Speaker 1: with ten mules loaded with great chests. He soon found
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Speaker 1: the place and the door in the rock. He said,
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Speaker 1: open sesame, and the door opened and shut behind him.
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Speaker 1: He could have feasted his eyes all day on the treasures,
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Speaker 1: but he now hastened to gather together as much of
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Speaker 1: it as possible. But when he was ready to go,
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Speaker 1: he could not remember what to say, for thinking of
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Speaker 1: his great riches, instead of sesame, he said open barley,
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Speaker 1: and the door remained fast. He named several different sorts
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Speaker 1: of grain, all but the right one, and the door
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Speaker 1: still stuck fast. He was so frightened at the danger
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Speaker 1: he was in that he had as much forgotten the
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Speaker 1: word as if he had never heard it. About noon,
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Speaker 1: the robbers returned to their cave and saw Cassim's mules
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Speaker 1: roving about with great chests on their backs. This gave
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Speaker 1: them the alarm. They drew their sabers and went to
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Speaker 1: the door, which opened on their captain, saying open sesame. Cassim,
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Speaker 1: who had heard the trampling of their horses feet, resolved
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Speaker 1: to sell his life dearly. So when the door opened,
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Speaker 1: he leapt out and threw the captain down in vain, however,
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Speaker 1: for the robbers with their sabers, soon killed him. On
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Speaker 1: entering the cave, they saw all the bags laid ready,
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Speaker 1: and could not imagine how any one had got in
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Speaker 1: without knowing their secret. They cut Cassim's body into four
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Speaker 1: quarters and nailed them up inside the cave in order
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Speaker 1: to frighten any one who should venture in, and went
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Speaker 1: away in search of more treasure. As night drew on,
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Speaker 1: Cassim's wife grew very uneasy and ran to her brother
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Speaker 1: in law and told him where her husband had gone.
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba did his best to comfort her and set
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Speaker 1: out to the forest in search of Cassim. The first
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Speaker 1: thing he saw on entering the cave was his dead brother.
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Speaker 1: Full of horror, he put the body on one of
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Speaker 1: his asses, and bags of gold on the other two,
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Speaker 1: and covering all with some faggots, returned home. He drove
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Speaker 1: the two asses, laden with gold, into his own yard
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Speaker 1: and led the other to Cassim's house. The door was
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Speaker 1: opened by the slave Morgiana, whom he knew to be
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Speaker 1: both brave and cunning. Unlow Codding the ass, he said
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Speaker 1: to her, this is the body of your master, who
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Speaker 1: has been murdered, but whom we must bury as though
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Speaker 1: he had died in his bed. I will speak with
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Speaker 1: you again, But now tell your mistress I am Come,
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Speaker 1: the wife of Cassim, on learning the fate of her husband,
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Speaker 1: broke out into cries and tears, but Ali Baba offered
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Speaker 1: to take her to live with him and his wife
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Speaker 1: if she would promise to keep his counsel and leave
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Speaker 1: everything to Morgiana, whereupon she agreed and dried her eyes.
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Speaker 1: Morgiana meanwhile sought an apothecary and asked him for some lozenges.
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Speaker 1: My poor master, she said, can neither eat nor speak,
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Speaker 1: and no one knows what his distemper is. She carried
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Speaker 1: home the lozenges and returned next day weeping, and asked
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Speaker 1: for an essence only given to those just about to die. Thus,
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Speaker 1: in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the
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Speaker 1: wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim's wife and Morgiana telling
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Speaker 1: every one that Cassim was dead. The day after, Morgiana
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Speaker 1: went to an old cobbler near the gates of the town,
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Speaker 1: who opened his stall early, put a piece of gold
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Speaker 1: in his hand, and bade him f follow her with
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Speaker 1: his needle and thread. Having bound his eyes with a handkerchief,
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Speaker 1: she took him to the room where the body lay,
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Speaker 1: pulled off the bandage, and bade him sow the quarters together,
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Speaker 1: after which she covered his eyes again and led him home.
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Speaker 1: Then they buried Cassim, and Morgiana, his slave, followed him
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Speaker 1: to the grave, weeping and tearing her hair, while Cassim's
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Speaker 1: wife stayed at home, uttering lamentable cries. Next day she
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Speaker 1: went to live with Ali Baba, who gave Cassim's shop
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Speaker 1: to his eldest son. The forty thieves, on their return
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Speaker 1: to the cave, were much astonished to find Cassim's body
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Speaker 1: gone and some of their money bags. We are certainly discovered,
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Speaker 1: said the captain, and shall be undone if we cannot
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Speaker 1: find out who it is that knows our secret. Two
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Speaker 1: men must have known it. We have killed one, we
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Speaker 1: must now find the other. To this end, one of you,
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Speaker 1: who is bold and artful, must go into the city
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Speaker 1: dressed as a traveler and discover whom we have killed,
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Speaker 1: and whether men talk of the strange manner of his death.
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Speaker 1: If the messenger fails, he must lose his life lest
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Speaker 1: we be betrayed. One of the thieves started up and
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Speaker 1: offered to do this, and, after the rest had highly
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Speaker 1: commended him for his bravery, he disguised himself and happened
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Speaker 1: to enter the town at daybreak, just by Baba Mustafa's store.
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Speaker 1: The thief bade him good day, saying, honest man, how
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Speaker 1: can you possibly see to stitch at your age? Old
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Speaker 1: as I am? Replied the cobbler, I have very good eyes,
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Speaker 1: and will you believe me when I tell you that
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Speaker 1: I sowed a dead body together in a place where
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Speaker 1: I had less light than I have now. The robber
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Speaker 1: was overjoyed at his good fortune, and giving him a
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Speaker 1: piece of gold, desired to be shown the house where
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Speaker 1: he stitched up the dead body. At first Mustafa refused,
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Speaker 1: saying that he had been blindfolded, but when the robber
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Speaker 1: gave him another piece of gold, he began to think
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Speaker 1: he might remember the turnings if blindfolded. As before, this
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Speaker 1: means succeeded. The robber partly led him and was partly
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Speaker 1: guided by him, right in front of Cassim's house, the
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Speaker 1: door of which the robber marked with a piece of chalk.
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Speaker 1: Then well pleased, he bade farewell to Baba Mustafa and
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Speaker 1: returned to the forest. By and by Morgiana, going out,
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Speaker 1: saw the mark the robber had made quickly guessed that
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Speaker 1: some mischief was brewing, and fetching a piece of chalk
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Speaker 1: marked two or three doors on each side, without saying
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Speaker 1: anything to her master or mistress. The thief, meantime told
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Speaker 1: his comrades of his discovery. The captain thanked him and
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Speaker 1: bade him show him the house he had marked, But
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Speaker 1: when they came to it, they saw that five or
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Speaker 1: six of the houses were chalked in the same manner.
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Speaker 1: The guide was so confounded that he knew not what
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Speaker 1: answer to make, and when they returned, he was at
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Speaker 1: once beheaded for having failed. Another robber was dispatched, and,
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Speaker 1: having won over Baba Mustafa, marked the house in red chalk,
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Speaker 1: but Morgiana, being again too clever for him, the second
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Speaker 1: messenger was put to death also. The captain now resolved
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Speaker 1: to go himself, but wiser than the others, he did
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Speaker 1: not mark the house, but looked at it so closely
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Speaker 1: that he could not fail to remember it. He returned
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Speaker 1: and ordered his men to go into the neighboring villages
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Speaker 1: and buy nineteen mules and thirty eight leather jars, all
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Speaker 1: m tea except one which was full of oil. The
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Speaker 1: captain put one of his men, fully armed into each
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Speaker 1: rubbing the outside of the jars with oil from the
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Speaker 1: full vessel. Then the nineteen mules were loaded with thirty
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Speaker 1: seven robbers in jars and the jar of oil, and
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Speaker 1: reached the town by dusk. The captain stopped his mules
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Speaker 1: in front of ali Baba's house and said to Ali Baba,
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Speaker 1: who was sitting outside for coolness, I have brought some
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Speaker 1: oil from a distance to sell it to morrow's market,
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Speaker 1: but it is now so late that I know not
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Speaker 1: where to pass the night unless you will do me
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Speaker 1: the favor to take me in. Though Ali Baba had
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Speaker 1: seen the captain of the Rubbers in the forest, he
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Speaker 1: did not recognize him in the disguise of an oil merchant.
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Speaker 1: He bade him welcome, opened his gates for the mules
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Speaker 1: to enter, and went to Morgiana to bid her prepare
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Speaker 1: a bed and supper for his guest. He brought the
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Speaker 1: stranger into his hall, and after they had supped, went
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Speaker 1: again to speak to Morgiana in the kitchen, while the
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Speaker 1: captain went into the yard under pretense of seeing after
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Speaker 1: his mules, but really to tell his men what to do.
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Speaker 1: Beginning at the first jar and at the last, he
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Speaker 1: said to each man. As soon as I throw some
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Speaker 1: stones from the window of the chamber where I lie,
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Speaker 1: cut the jars open with your knives and come out,
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Speaker 1: and I will be with you in a trice. He
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Speaker 1: returned to the house and Morgiana led him to his chamber.
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Speaker 1: She then told Abdallah, her fellow's slave, to set on
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Speaker 1: the pot to make some broth for her master, who
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Speaker 1: had gone to bed. Meanwhile, her lamp went out, and
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Speaker 1: she had no more oil in the house. Do not
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Speaker 1: be uneasy, said Abdallah. Go into the yard and take
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Speaker 1: some out of one of those jars. Morgiana thanked him
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Speaker 1: for his advice, took the oil pot and went into
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Speaker 1: the yard. When she came to the first jar, the
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Speaker 1: robber ins side said softly, is it time any other slave?
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Speaker 1: But Morgiana, on finding a man in the jar instead
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Speaker 1: of the oil she wanted, would have screamed and made
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Speaker 1: a noise. But she, knowing the danger her master was in,
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Speaker 1: bethought herself of a plan and answered quietly, not yet.
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Speaker 1: But presently she went to all the jars, giving the
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Speaker 1: same answer, till she came to the jar of oil.
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Speaker 1: She now saw that her master, thinking to entertain an
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Speaker 1: oil merchant had let thirty eight robbers into his house.
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Speaker 1: She filled her oil pot, went back to the kitchen, and,
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Speaker 1: having lit her lamp, went again to the oil jar
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Speaker 1: and filled a large kettle full of oil. When it boiled,
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Speaker 1: she went and poured enough oil into every jar to
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Speaker 1: stifle and kill the robber inside. When this brave deed
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Speaker 1: was done, she went back to the kitchen, put out
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Speaker 1: the fire and the lamp, and waited to see what
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Speaker 1: would happen. In a quarter of an hour, the captain
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Speaker 1: of the robbers awoke, got up and opened the window.
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Speaker 1: As all seemed quiet, he threw down some little pebbles
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Speaker 1: which hid the jars. He listened, and as none of
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Speaker 1: his men seemed to stir, he grew uneasy and went
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Speaker 1: down into the yard. On going to the first jar
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Speaker 1: and saying are you asleep? He smelt the hot boiled
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Speaker 1: oil and knew at once that his plot to murder
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba and his household had been discovered. He found
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Speaker 1: all the gang was dead and missing the oil out
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Speaker 1: of the last jar, became aware of the manner of
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Speaker 1: their death. He then forced the lock of a door
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Speaker 1: leading into a garden, and climbing over several walls made
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Speaker 1: his escape. Morgiana heard and saw all this, and, rejoicing
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Speaker 1: at her success, went to bed and fell asleep. At daybreak,
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba arose, and, seeing the oil jar still there,
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Speaker 1: asked why the merchant had not gone with his mules.
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Speaker 1: Morgiana bade him look in the first jar and see
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Speaker 1: if there was any oil. Seeing a man, he started
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Speaker 1: back in terror. Have no fear, said Morgiana. The man
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Speaker 1: cannot harm you. He is dead. Ali Baba, when he
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Speaker 1: had recovered somewhat from his astonishment, asked what had become
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Speaker 1: of the merchant. Merchant, said she, He is no more
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Speaker 1: a merchant than I am, and she told him the
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Speaker 1: whole story, assuring him that it was a plot of
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Speaker 1: the robbers of the forest, of whom only three were left,
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Speaker 1: and that the white and red chalk marks had something
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Speaker 1: to do with it. Ali Baba at once gave Morgiana
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Speaker 1: her freedom, saying that he owed her his life. They
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Speaker 1: then buried the bodies in Ali Baba's garden, while the
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Speaker 1: mules were sold in the market by his slaves. The
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Speaker 1: captain returned to his lonely cave, which seemed frightful to
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Speaker 1: him without his lost companions. And firmly resolved to avenge
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Speaker 1: them by killing Ali Baba. He dressed himself carefully and
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Speaker 1: went into the town, where he took lodgings in an inn.
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Speaker 1: In the course of a great many journeys to the forest,
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Speaker 1: he carried away many rich stuffs and much fine linen,
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Speaker 1: and sat up a shop opposite that of Ali Baba's son.
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Speaker 1: He called himself Coggia Hassan, and as he was both
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Speaker 1: civil and well dressed, he soon made friends with Ali
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Speaker 1: Baba's son, and through him, with Ali Baba, whom he
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Speaker 1: was continually asking to sup with him. Ali Baba, wishing
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Speaker 1: to return his kindness, invited him into his house and
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Speaker 1: received him smiling, thanking him for his kindness to his son.
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Speaker 1: When the merchant was about to take his leave, Ali
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Speaker 1: Baba stopped him, saying, where are you going, sir? In
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Speaker 1: such haste? Will you not stay in sup with me?
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Speaker 1: The merchant refused, saying that he had a reason, and
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Speaker 1: on Ali Baba's asking him what that was, he replied,
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Speaker 1: it is, sir, that I can eat no victuals that
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Speaker 1: have any sort in them. If that is all, said
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Speaker 1: Ali Baba, let me tell you that there shall be
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Speaker 1: no sort in either the meat or the bread that
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Speaker 1: we eat to night. He went to give this order
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Speaker 1: to Morgiana, who was much surprised. Who is this man,
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Speaker 1: she said, who eats no sort with his meat? He
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Speaker 1: is an honest man. Morgiana returned her master, therefore, do
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Speaker 1: as I bid you. But she could not withstand a
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Speaker 1: desire to see this strange man. So she helped Abdallah
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Speaker 1: to carry up the dishes, and saw in a moment
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Speaker 1: that Coggia Hassan was the robber captain and carried a
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Speaker 1: dagger under his garment. I am not surprised, she said
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Speaker 1: to herself, that this wicked man who intends to kill
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Speaker 1: my master will eat no sort with him, but I
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Speaker 1: will hinder his plans. She sent up the supper by
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Speaker 1: Abdallah while she made ready for one of the boldest
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Speaker 1: acts that could be thought on. When the dessert had
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Speaker 1: been served, Coggia Hassan was left alone with Ali Baba
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Speaker 1: and his son, whom he thought to make drunk and
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Speaker 1: then to murder them. Morgiana meanwhile put on her head
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Speaker 1: dress like a dancing girl's, and clasped a girdle round
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Speaker 1: her waist, from which hung a dagger with a silver hilt,
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Speaker 1: and said to Abdallah, take your table and let us
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Speaker 1: go and divert our master and his guest. Abdallah took
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Speaker 1: his table and played before Morgiana until they came to
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Speaker 1: the door, where Abdallah stopped playing and Morgiana made a
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Speaker 1: low courtesy. Come in, Morgiana, said Ali Baba, and let
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Speaker 1: Coggia has Son see what you can do. And turning
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Speaker 1: to Kogia has Son, he said, she's my slave and
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Speaker 1: my housekeeper. Kogia has Son was by no means pleased,
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Speaker 1: for he feared that his chance of killing Ali Baba
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Speaker 1: was gone for the present, but he pretended great eagerness
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Speaker 1: to see Morgiana and Abdallah began to play, and Morgiana
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Speaker 1: to dance. After she had performed several dances, she drew
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Speaker 1: her dagger and made passes with it, sometimes pointing it
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Speaker 1: at her own breast, sometimes at her master's, as if
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Speaker 1: it were part of the dance. Suddenly, out of breath,
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Speaker 1: she snatched the table from Abdullah with her left hand,
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Speaker 1: and holding the dagger in her right hand, held out
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Speaker 1: the table to her master. Ali Baba and his son
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Speaker 1: put a piece of gold into it and coggia Ha's son,
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Speaker 1: seeing that she was coming to him, pulled out his
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Speaker 1: purse to make her a present, But while he was
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Speaker 1: putting his hand into it, Morgiana plunged the dagger into
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Speaker 1: his heart. Unhappy girl cried Ali Baba and his son,
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Speaker 1: what have you done to ruin us? It was to
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Speaker 1: preserve you, master, not to ruin you, answered Morgiana. See here,
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Speaker 1: opening the false merchant's garment and showing the dagger. See
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Speaker 1: what an enemy you have entertained. Remember he would eat
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Speaker 1: no salt with you, and what more would you have?
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Speaker 1: Look at him? He is both the false oil merchant
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Speaker 1: and the captain of the forty thieves. Ali Baba was
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Speaker 1: so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that
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Speaker 1: he offered her to his son in marriage, who readily consented,
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Speaker 1: and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with
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Speaker 1: greatest splendor. At the end of a year, Ali Baba,
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Speaker 1: hearing nothing of the two remaining robbers, judged they were
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Speaker 1: dead and set out to the cave. The door opened
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Speaker 1: on his saying open sesame. He went in and saw
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Speaker 1: that nobody had been there since the captain left it.
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Speaker 1: He brought away as much gold as he could carry,
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Speaker 1: and returned to town. He told his son the secret of
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Speaker 1: the cave, which his son handed down in his turn,
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Speaker 1: so that children and grandchildren of Ali Baba were rich
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Speaker 1: to the end of their lives. Footnote Arabian nights end
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Speaker 1: footnote end of the Forty Thieves