cim and Alibaba were brothers cim was rich with a shop a fine house and a lovely Garden Alibaba had very little money he was a Woodcutter with only two donkeys and a very small house so the two brothers didn't often meet one day Alibaba wanted to cut wood he took his two donkeys and wor walked a long way he came to a mountain there were a lot of good trees at the bottom of the mountain but suddenly he heard the sound of horses to Alibaba the sound meant only one thing thieves quickly he pushed his
donkeys away and climbed a tree Alibaba was right they were thieves 40 thieves they stopped near alib barbar's tree and got down from their horses Alibaba was very afraid but the thieves didn't see him the first Thief went to the mountain he stood in front of it and said very quietly open sesame then the wall of the mountain opened and there was a l large cave the thieves carried bags into the cave and the Mountain closed behind them then they came out again and got on their horses they went away through the trees Alibaba was
very surprised when everything was quiet he came down from his tree he went to the mountain he stood in front of it and said oh open sesame the wall of the mountain opened and Alibaba went into the cave it was very dark inside he couldn't see anything for a short time then he saw a lot of gold and other beautiful things Alibaba found his donkeys he put the gold in two bags and put firewood on the top then he went home it was very late when Alibaba arrived home he carried the bags into his house
and showed the gold to his wife she was very surprised and happy the next day alibaba's wife met Kim's wife in the town Kim's wife liked to know everything why are you happy today she asked something happened to Alibaba yesterday answered his wife it's very exciting now we're going to be rich cassim's wife went home and told her husband about Alibaba cim went to alibaba's house brother my wife says you're going to be rich he said please tell me how did it happen Alibaba said nothing but casim asked again and again in the end Alibaba
told his brother about the cave in the mountain next morning casim left home early and took 20 donkeys with him he found the mountain and opened the cave then he went inside and the Mountain closed behind him cim would think only of gold he carried 20 bags of gold to the mouth of the cave he wanted to open the cave again but he couldn't remember the right words open Mountain he said then open cave he tried aund ways but the mountain didn't move suddenly the 40 thieves came came back and saw the donkeys outside the
cave they opened the cave and ran inside they found casim inside and they killed him with their knives let's cut this dead man into pieces they said perhaps other people know about this place too when they see the pieces they'll be afraid they cut casim into four pieces and left the pieces inside the cave then they took his 20 donkeys and went away night came but casim didn't come home his wife went to Alibaba please go and look for my husband she said so Alibaba took his two donkeys and walked all night in the morning
he came to the mountain a open sesame he said and the cave opened he saw the four pieces of his brother on the ground the 40 thieves did this he thought where are they now perhaps they'll come back I have to be quick he put the four pieces of cim into a bag and went home Alibaba didn't want people to ask questions about casim why is casim dead who killed him where how he didn't want everybody to know about the cave cim had a very clever servant girl Marana marzana always knew the answer to a
problem she went to a doctor in the town please sir she said to the doctor casim is very ill please please give me something for him in this way the story quickly went round the town casim was very ill the next day Marana went to the doctor again later that day Kim's wife and Marana began to cry loudly people in the houses near Kim's house heard them Listen People Said Kim's wife and servant are crying Kim was very ill and now he's dead now everybody knows Kim is dead said Alibaba but he's in four pieces
we can't put him into the ground people will see him and ask questions why is casim in four pieces who cut him into pieces where again then Marana had an idea in the town there was an old shoe maker his eyes were very bad and he couldn't see anything but he was very good at his work bana went to his house and gave the old man some gold come with me and I'll give you more gold she said I have four pieces of something I want you to make the four pieces into one piece she
gave him the four pieces of cassim the old man worked hard all night in the morning cassim was in one piece again and they put him into the ground Alibaba and his wife and children moved into cassim's house with cassim's wife and Marana they lived happily for a time but the story didn't end there other people weren't very happy the 40 thieves when the thieves came back to the cave they were very surprised where were the four pieces of the dead man another person knows about our cave they thought perhaps the dead man had friends
but who was the dead man we killed him before we could ask him I have an idea said one Thief I'll go into the town and ask some questions perhaps somebody will remember a dead man in four pieces the thief went into the town he asked a lot of questions but he didn't learn anything then he came to the shop of the old shoe maker he watched the old man at work your work is very good old man said the thief yes said the shoe maker I can make everything last week I made four pieces
of a dead man into one piece really said the thief that's very interesting who was this dead man where did he live I don't know answered the shoe maker a girl came here and took me to a house I did my work there take this gold said the thief can you remember the way to the house the old Shoemaker took the thief through the streets and stopped outside inside cassim's door this was the house he said the thief took the old man home then he went back to the other 39 thieves and told them his
story one evening some Weeks Later a Sellar of oil came to the door of Kim's house he had 20 donkeys with him each donkey carried two big oil jars the oil Seller said to Alibaba sir I'm going to sell these jars of oil tomorrow please can I leave them outside your house tonight bring in your donkeys and your jars said Alibaba you can eat with us and stay here for the night the oil seller brought in his donkeys and jars then Alibaba took him inside marjana was in the kitchen she started to cook the dinner
but the oil in her lamp went out I know she thought there's a lot of oil in the jars outside I can take a little for my lamp she went outside to the jars when she got to the first jar a man asked from inside the jar is it time Marana was very surprised but she thought quickly she answered no it isn't time then she went to every jar from each jar she heard the same question and gave the same answer only the last jar really had oil in it something was very wrong the men
in these jars are 39 thieves Marana thought the oil seller is a thief too they are going to kill Alibaba and his family I have to do something she carried the oil from the last jar into the kitchen and put it over the fire when the oil was very hot she went outside and put some hot oil into every jar in this way she killed 39 of the 40 thieves but the last thief the most dangerous was upstairs with Alibaba and his family later that night Alibaba and his family were asleep in bed but marjana
was in her kitchen she waited for the thief he came downstairs and went outside Mar now watched him he went to the first jar and said it's time but there was no answer from the jar the thief looked inside and saw a dead man he was very surprised and afraid he ran from jar to jar and found the same thing in every jar then he came to the last jar there was nothing in it marjana began to make a loud noise from the kitchen the thief was afraid and climbed into the jar then Marana carried
more hot oil to the jar and put it on top of the thief inside now he was dead too in the morning marjana told Alibaba everything thank you very much Marana said Alibaba you are a very clever girl will you marry my son so marjana lived happily with the family for many years
