6 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

 

at his ease, and became one of the richest
men in the whole town.

Ali Baba, on the other hand, a a
wife no better off than himself, and lived
in a very poor house. He had no other
means of livelihood, and of supporting his
wife and children, than by going out to
cut wood in the next forest, and carrying
it about the town to sell on three asses.

_Ali Baba went one day to the forest,