16. ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.

 

The wife of Ali Baba had scarcely
turned her back, when Cassim’s wife
looked at the bottom of the measure, and
was astonished to see a piece of gold
sticking to it. ‘‘ What!” said she, “ Ali
Baba measures his gold! Where can
the wretch have got it?” When her
husband Cassim came home, she said to
him, ‘¢Cassim, you think you are rich,
but Ali Baba must have far more wealth
than you; he does not count his gold as
you do; he measures it.” Then she