26 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES..

and Morgiana went out with him to an
apothecary’s there ;.she knocked at the
shop-door, and when it was opened,
asked for a particular kind of lozenge of
great effect in. dangerous illness.. The
apothecary gave her the lozenge, asking
who was ill in her master’s family.
“‘ Ah!” exclaimed she with a deep sigh,
**it is my worthy. master, Cassim himself,
He can neither speak nor eat |”
Meanwhile, as Ali Baba and his wife
were seen going backwards and forwards
to the house of Cassim, in the course of the
day, noone was surprised on hearing in the
evening the piercing cries of his widow
and Morgiana, which announced his death.
At a very early hour the next morning,
when day began to appear, Morgiana,
knowing that a good old cobbler lived
near, who was one of the first to open his
shop, went out in search of him, .and
coming up to him, she wished him a good-
day, and put a piece of gold into his hand.
Baba Mustapha, the cobbler, was natur-
ally of a gay turn, and had always
something laughable to say. Looking at
the money, as it was yet scarcely day-
light, and seeing it was gold, « A good
hansel,” said he ; ‘‘ what’s tobe done? I
am. ready to do what Iam bid.” <« Baba