The Story of Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves.

1* an old town of Persia there lived
two brothers, Cassim and Ali Baba.
Their father, at his death, left them a
small fortune, which they divided be-
tween them. It might therefore be
thought that their riches would be the
‘same; but not so, as you shall see.
Cassim married a wife who owned a
fine shop, a warehouse, and some land ;
he thus found himself all at once quite