8. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

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midst of them he could see everything
that passed, without being seen.

The robbers rode swiftly up to this
very tree, and there alighted. Ali Baba
counted forty of them, and saw that
each horseman took the bridle off his
horse, hung over its head a bag filled
with barley, and fastened it up. Then
they took their travelling bags, which
were so heavy that Ali Baba thought
they were filled with gold and silver.

The Captain of the thieves came, his
bag on his shoulder, close to the rock,
at the very spot where the tree grew in