Transcription of Reading 12: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Arabian Nights
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Reading 12: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Arabian Nights
Reading 12: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves -ArabianNightsTranslated by Richard F. BurtonIn days of yore and in times and tides long gone before there dwelt in a certain town ofPersia two brothers one named Kasim and the other Ali Baba, who at their father's demisehad divided the little wealth he had left to them with equitable division, andhad lost notime in wasting and spending it all. The elder, however, presently took to himself a wife,the daughter of an opulent merchant; so that when his father-in-law fared to the mercy ofAlmighty Allah, he became owner of a large shop filled with rare goods and costly waresand of a storehouse stocked with precious stuffs; likewise of much gold that was buried inthe ground.
descend until what time they were clean gone out of sight, lest perchance one of them return and look around and descry him. Then he thought within himself, "I too will try the virtue of those magical words and see if at my bidding the door will open and close." So he called out aloud, "Open, O Simsim!"
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