ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. 19

 

mules charged with large hampers which
he proposed to fill. He took the road
which Ali Baba had pointed out, and
arrived at the rock and the tree, when, on
looking for the door, he soon discovered
it. Having cried, ‘‘ Open Szsami!” the
door obeyed; he entered, and it closed
again. Greedy as Cassim was, he could
have passed the whole day in feasting
his eyes with the sight of so much gold;