d any greater

THE STORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 236

Cassim ... was so alarmed at the danger he was in that the
more he endeavoured to remember the word _Sesame_ the more
his memory was confounded

THE HISTORY OF CODADAD AND HIS BROTHERS 276

As it drew near we saw ten or twelve armed pirates appear on the deck

SECOND VOYAGE OF SINBAD 300

The spot where she left me was encompassed on all sides by mountains
that seemed to reach above the clouds, and so steep that
there was no possibility of getting out of the valley

THIRD VOYAGE OF SINBAD 306

Having finished his repast, he returned to his porch, where he lay
and fell asleep, snoring louder than thunder

THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

"When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free
In the silken sail of infancy,
The tide of time flow'd back with me,
The forward-flowing time of time;
And many a sheeny summer morn,
Adown the Tigris I was borne,
By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold,
High-walled gardens green and old;
True Mussulman was I and sworn,
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.

"Anight my shallop, rustling thro'
The low and bloomed foliage, drove
The fragrant, glistening deeps, and clove
The citron-shadows in the blue:
By garden porches on the brim,
The costly doors flung open wide,
Gold glittering thro' lamplight dim,
And broider'd sofas on each side:
In sooth it was a goodly time,
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid."

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.

THE TALKING BIRD, THE SINGING TREE, AND THE GOLDEN WATER

There was an emperor of Persia named Kosrouschah, who, when he first
came to his crown, in order to obtain a knowledge of affairs, took great
pleasure in night excursions, attended by a trusty minister. He often
walked in disguise through the city, and met with many adventures, one
of the most remarkable of which happened to him upon his first ramble,
which was not long after his accession to the throne of his father.

After the ceremonies of his father's funeral rites and his own
inauguration were over, the new sultan, as well from inclination as from
duty, went out one evening attended by his grand vizier, disguised like
himself, to observe what was transact