Can Ali Baba discover the secret words that open the den of the 40 thieves?

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The Arabian Nights is a collection of stories that has been augmented by many authors and translators through the years.

Alibaba and the Forty Thieves is among the most famous of the collection, along with the Aladdin stories.

And now, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves

from the Arabian Nights. In a certain town of Persia there lived two brothers one of whom was named

Kasim and the other Ali Baba. Their father at his death left them a very moderate fortune,

which they divided equally. It might therefore be naturally conjectured that their position would be the same.

Chance, however, ordered it otherwise.

Cassim married a woman, who very soon after her nuptials,

inherited a well-furnished shop, a warehouse filled with good merchandise

and some considerable property in land. Her husband thus found himself suddenly quite a prosperous man and became one of the richest

merchants in the whole town.

Alibaba, on the other hand, who had taken to wife a woman no better off for worldly goods than himself lived in a very poor house and had no other means of gaining his livelihood and supporting his wife and children than then by going to cut wood in a

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