me on the back of one of his asses.

8. The king, unable to ascertain how his treasury had been entered, is
enraged at the removal of the body, and alarmed at finding that some
one who possesses the secret still survives.

9. The king has recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of detecting the
depredator, but without success.

10. The surviving brother baffles the king's first attempt to detect
him, by means of some asses, which, in the character of a wine-seller,
he had loaded with wine-flasks, making the king's guards drunk, and
leaving them all fast asleep.

THE ARABIAN TALE.

1. In a rock so steep and craggy that none can scale it, a cave has
been hewn out, in which the robbers deposit their prodigious wealth.

2. In this rock is a door which opens into the cave, by means of two
magical words, "Open Sesame;" and closes again in like manner by
pronouncing the words "Shut Sesame."

3. Two brothers become acquainted with the door of the cave, and the
means of opening and shutting it; and they enter it for the purpose of
enriching themselves.

4. Ali Baba, one of the two brothers, becomes rich by carrying off a
great quantity of gold coin from the robbers' cave.

5. Cassim, the other brother, is caught as in a snare, by forgetting,
when in the cave, the magical words by which alone ran exit could be
obtained.

6. Cassim, in his attempt to escape, is killed by the robbers, and his
dead body is quartered, and hung up within the door of the cave, to
deter any who might be his accomplices.

7. Ali Baba, at the instance of Cassim's widow, carries off his remains
from the cave, and brings them home on the back of one of his asses.

8. The robbers, unable to guess how their cave had been entered, are
alarmed at the removal of Cassim's remains, which proves to them that
some one who possesses the secret still survives.

9. The robbers have recourse to stratagem, for the purpose of
discovering the depredator, but without success.

10. Ali Baba, assisted by his female slave, baffles the robber
captain's first attempt upon him, by means of some oil in a jar, his
men being concealed in the other jars, with which the captain, in the
character of an oil-merchant, had loaded some asses: thus the latter,
who thought his men asleep, finds them all dead.

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