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ALI Baba was a wood-cutter and every day he would go to the
woods to work to earn a few coins.
But one day he was a group of men loaded with large packages
whose leader would stand in front of a rock and say : open
sesame !" and the great rock would open letting them in.
When the men left, Ali Baba tired his luck and said to the rock,
"Open Sesame!"
The rock split in two and he went into the cave.
"Oh! How marvelous!" cried Ali Baba.
The cave was full of fantastic treasures.
"Surely it's the hid-out of some thieves. I'll take home some
handfuls of gold," he thought.
His wife, when she saw the coins, wanted to weigh them, so she
want to borrow a scale from her neighbor, Kasim.
When kasim saw so much gould and heard the storym he
thought 'l ll go to the cave without telling Ali Baba and I ll
tak the treasure. And so he did.

He arrived at the rouk with several mules so that he could load

all the treasure but with all the excitement he forgot the
magic words and the rock didn¶t open.
The forty thieve found him there.
"What are you doing here?" the leader asked him and kasim had
no choice but to repeat what Ali Baba had told him.
We will look you in the cave so that you can't take our treasure
or tell any one else about it " said the leader.
Kasim's wife was very restless because he was talking so long.
"Don¶t worry," said Ali Baba. "he must be occupied."
Meanwhile, one of the thieves discovered where Ali Baba, the
wood-cutter, lived.
The thieves made a plan.

"We will buy forty skins and we will fill one with oil. Then all
of you will hide in the other skins," said the leader.

"We will give Ali Baba what he deserves," they said.

At sunset, forty mules with forty skins arrived at Ali Baba's
house led by the leader of the thieves.

"Could you give me a bed for the night?" he asked, and the
wood-cutter answered that he could. He was not at all
suspicious.
They left the mules and the skins on the patio.
The hidden thieves awaited midnight so they could kill Ali Baba
and all his family.
But Morgiana, the servant, didn't have any oil left.