![]() ![]() They stayed some time inside, and Ali Baba, fearing they might come out and catch him, was forced to sit patiently in the tree. A door opened in the rocks, and having made the troop go in, he followed them, and the door shut again of itself. The finest man among them, whom Ali Baba took to be their captain, went a little way among some bushes, and said: “Open Sesame!” so plainly that Ali Baba heard him. They unbridled their horses and tied them to trees. When they came up to him and dismounted, he counted forty of them. He was afraid they were robbers, and climbed into a tree for safety. ![]() One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, he saw a troop of men on horseback, coming toward him in a cloud of dust. Cassim was married to a rich wife and lived in plenty while Ali Baba had to maintain his wife and children by cutting wood in a neighbouring forest and selling it in the town. ![]() In a town in Persia there dwelled two brothers, one named Cassim, the other Ali Baba. Proofread by Claire Deakin & Jana Elizabeth. At a shade under half an hour, this is a longer story than we usual publish – and we have an introduction from the pond where Bertie lives. ![]()
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