se early the next morning, dressed himself to be ready, and
after he had waited some time began to be impatient and stood watching
at the door; but as soon as he perceived his uncle coming, he told his
mother, took his leave of her, and ran to meet him.

The magician caressed Aladdin, and said: "Come, my dear child, and I
will shew you fine things." He then led him out at one of the gates of
the city, to some magnificent palaces, to each of which belonged
beautiful gardens, into which anybody might enter. At every building he
came to, he asked Aladdin if he did not think it fine; and the youth was
ready to answer when any one presented itself, crying out: "Here is a
finer house, uncle, than any we have seen yet." By this artifice, the
cunning magician led Aladdin some way into the country; and as he meant
to carry him farther, pretending to be tired, he took an opportunity to
sit down in one of the gardens on the brink of a fountain of clear
water, which discharged itself by a lion's mouth of bronze into a basin:
"Come, nephew," said he, "you must be weary as well as I; let us rest
ourselves, and we shall be better able to pursue our walk."

After they had sat down, the magician pulled from his girdle a
handkerchief with cakes and fruit, which he had provided, and laid them
on the edge of the basin. He broke a cake in two, gave one half to
Aladdin and ate the other himself; and in regard to the fruit, left him
at liberty to take which sort he liked best. During this short repast,
he exhorted his nephew to leave off keeping company with vagabonds, and
seek that of wise and prudent men, to improve by their conversation;
"For," said he, "you will soon be at man's estate, and you cannot too
early begin to imitate their example." When they had eaten as much as
they liked, they pursued their walk through gardens separated from one
another only by small ditches, which marked out the limits without
interrupting the communication; so great was the confidence the
inhabitants reposed in each other. By this means, the African magician
drew Aladdin insensibly beyond the gardens, and crossed the country,
till they nearly reached the mountains.

Aladdin, who had never been so far before, began to find himself much
tired, and said to the magician: "Where are we going, uncle? We have
left the gardens a great way behind us, and I see nothing but mountains;
if we go much farther, I do not know whether I shall be able to reach
the town a