nt entertainment, provided
for him and for his court by Aladdin, he was informed that the
jewelers and goldsmiths attended; upon which he returned to the hall,
and showed them the window which was unfinished.

"I sent for you," said he, "to fit up this window in as great
perfection as the rest. Examine them well, and make all the dispatch
you can."

The jewelers and goldsmiths examined the three-and-twenty windows with
great attention, and after they had consulted together, to know what
each could furnish, they returned, and presented themselves before the
sultan, whose principal jeweler, undertaking to speak for the rest,
said, "Sire, we are all willing to exert our utmost care and industry
to obey you; but among us all we cannot furnish jewels enough for so
great a work."

"I have more than are necessary," said the sultan. "Come to my palace,
and you shall choose what may answer your purpose."

When the sultan returned to his palace he ordered his jewels to be
brought out, and the jewelers took a great quantity, particularly
those Aladdin had made him a present of, which they soon used, without
making any great advance in their work. They came again several times
for more, and in a month's time had not finished half their work. In
short, they used all the jewels the sultan had, and borrowed of the
vizier, but yet the work was not half done.

Aladdin, who knew that all the sultan's endeavors to make this window
like the rest were in vain, sent for the jewelers and goldsmiths, and
not only commanded them to desist from their work, but ordered them to
undo what they had begun, and to carry all their jewels back to the
sultan and to the vizier. They undid in a few hours what they had been
six weeks about, and retired, leaving Aladdin alone in the hall. He
took the lamp, which he carried about him, rubbed it, and presently
the genie appeared.

"Genie," said Aladdin, "I ordered thee to leave one of the
four-and-twenty windows of this hall imperfect, and thou hast executed
my commands exactly; now I would have thee make it like the rest."

The genie immediately disappeared. Aladdin went out of the hall, and
returning soon after, found the window, as he wished it to be, like
the others.

In the meantime the jewelers and goldsmiths repaired to the palace,
and were introduced into the sultan's presence, where the chief
jeweler presented the precious stones which he had brought back. The
sultan asked them if Aladdin h