In the great empire of China, an African magician seeks to deceive a young wastrel to do his devious bidding.

The Arabian Nights, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, Aladdin, part one of five, from the Arabian Nights.

In the capital of one of the richest and most extensive provinces of the great empire of China, there lived at Taylor, whose name was Mustafa.

This tailor was very poor.

The profits of his trade barely sufficed for the subsistence of himself, his wife,

"'and the one son whom heaven had sent him.

"'This son, whose name was Aladdin,

"'had been brought up in a very negligent and careless manner,

"'and had been so much left to himself

"'that he had contracted many

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