ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. 13

 

asses, he went and brought them to the
rock, loaded them, and so covered the
sacks of gold over with wood that no one
could suspect anything. . This done, he
went up to the door, and had no sooner
said the words, ‘‘ Shut Sesamé,” than it
closed.

And now Ali Baba took the road to the
town; and when he got home, drove his
asses into the yard, and shut the gate with