Anonymous

“ The captain of the robbers, hearing every thing quiet in the house, and perceiving no light any where, arose and went down into the yard to assemble his men.
Coming to the first jar, he felt the stream of the boiled oil; he ran hastily to the rest, and found every one of his troop put to death in the same manner. ”

“ Cogia Hassan was not very well pleased with this entertainment, yet was compelled, for fear of discovering himself, to seem pleased with the dancing, while, in fact, he wished Morgiana out of the apartment, alarmed lest he should lose the present opportunity of murdering Ali Baba and his son. ”

“ Ali Baba without hesitation told him the history of the robbers, and the secret of the cave, and offered him half his treasure:, but the envious Cassim disdained the offer, determined to have fifty times more than that out of the robbers' cave.
Accordingly, he rose early the next morning, and set out with ten mules loaded with great chests.
He found the rock easily enough by Ali BaBaba's description, and, having said, open Sesame, he gained admission into the cave, where he found more treasure than he even had expected from his brother's account of it. ”

“ He then returned to the forest, and ordered his troop to go into the town and purchase nineteen mules and thirty-eight large jars, one full of oil, and the rest empty.
In two or three days jars were bought, and all things in readiness. The captain put a man into each jar, properly armed, and rubbed oil on the outside of each, the covers having holes bored in them for the men to breathe through. With these he loaded his mules, and, in the habit of an oil-merchant, entered the city in the dusk of the evening. ”

“ Morgiana was now convinced that this was a plot of the robbers to murder her master Ali Baba; so she ran back to the kitchen, and brought out a large kettle which she had filled with oil, and set it on a great wood fire; and as soon as it boiled, she went and poured into the jars sufficient of the boiling oil to kill every man within them. ”

“ Justice is blind, it is the power of God on earth; it has no regard to father or son—God, and our neighbour's right, are above the ties of nature. You had offended against the laws of justice, you deserved this punishment, you would in the end have received it from some other. ”

“ An Usurer, having lost a hundred pounds in a bag, promised to give a reward of ten pounds to the person who should restore it. A man having brought it to him, demanded the reward. The usurer, loath to give the reward now that he had got the bag, alledged, after the bag was opened, that there were an hundred and ten pounds in it when he lost it. The usurer being called before the judge, unwarily acknowledged that the seal was broke open in his presence, and that there were no more at that time but a hundred pounds in the bag. ”

“ After an interval of some months, the troop of robbers again visited their retreat in the forest, and were astonished to find the body removed from the cave, and every thing else remaining in its usual order.
'We are discovered,' said the Captain, 'and shall certainly be undone, if we do not adopt speedy measures to prevent our ruin. ”

“ While Ali Baba took these measures to prevent his and Cassim's adventures in the forest from being known: the captain returned to his cave, and for awhile abandoned himself to grief and despair.
At length, however, he determined to adopt a new scheme for the destruction of Ali Baba. He removed by degrees all the valuable merchandize from the cave to the city, and took a shop exactly opposite to Ali Baba's house.
He furnished the shop with every thing that was rare and costly, and went by the name of the merchant Cogia Hassan.
Many persons made acquaintance with the stranger ”

“ After considering how she could obtain a light, she recollected the thirty-eight oil jars in the yard, and determined to take a little oil out of one of them for her lamp.
She took her oil vessel in her hand, and approaching the first jar, the robber within said ‘Is it time, captain?’
Any other slave, perhaps, on heating many men in oil jars, would have screamed out; but the prudent Morgiana instantly recollected herself, and replied softly, 'No not yet ”