The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-06-20


ing their horses they rode away. When
they were gone, Ali Bahia, getting down
from the tree, tried the magic word him
self, and after little hesitation he entered
the robbers cave.
Great was his establishment at what he
beheld. He found splendid apartments,
suitable for married or single gentlemen,
handsomely furnished, and lighted with
gas with or without board, and within
FIVE minutes walk of the Post office. On
every hand We're heaps of diamonds, bags
of gold, and dead loads of greenback,.
Here, then. was where the robbers lived
when they were at home, and stored their
plumber. He determined to have his
whack at it. So loading his mule with all
Imagine the delight of Mrs. Bahia when
her husband arrived (She had been very
much concerned over his prolonged alb
sence, because he was Ali Bahia, all she
| had) She helped him unload the gold
and store it away in the cellar with an
alacrity she rarely displayed in doing her
| homework.
| She was anxious to know lust how much
| there was of it so as to make out a correct
| income return to the government Ac-
| ''lulllSINs Willy HCI lluobtiht WIS Soht
to put up the mule, she tried to count it
| Naturally wearying of this employment
after she had got up among the millions.
| she concluded to measure it, and for that
purpose She ran across the street 10 her
| sister-in-law's. Mrs. Cassim and borrowed
| her half-bushel measure, pretending that
! she wanted to measure some potatoes
| As it was so unusual a thing for Ali Baba'S
| t, ho, hal bnl ,bol Of,
at one time, Mr.. Cassims curiosity was
excited, 50 she put some Spaulding's glue
on the bottom of the measure to see what
| kind OF potatoes they We're, which was
mighty small potatoes on the part Of Mrs
! Cassin.
| When the measure was returned Mrs
| {. found five cent nlckle adhering to the
| bottom. This was a very suspicious cir
cumstance indeed When" said she to
| Cassim, in relating the circumstance and
| showing the nickle. a'when did Your
! brother ever have five cents in the house
all at once? OF a sudden he seems to
! have bushels of money" Cassm walked
/ over to his brothers house and questioned
/ him on the subject, when Ali. being n
| generous hearted fellow, told him all
about the cavern Next day CaSsim went
! up llltIC " Stt SOIHt u II uIluSClt, Dul
after loading himself down with wealth.
he forgot the magic word which opened
! the door. and SO couldn't get out He
tried various words, cried open See
Tommy ~ "Open See-Billy" ''Open See
Poll Ann" but all to no purpose, because
his memory couldn't see sammy The
result was thatth robbers come and killed
him, and being always ready to make 4
quarter, when they could, they quartered
him-he was the only gentleman who had
ever been quartered there before except
themselves-and hung him up inside the
door as a warning to any other rash in
truder who might seek TO enter without a
suitable recommendation from his last
| place.
The result might have been anticipated
Mrs. Cassim, alarmed at her husbands
absence, sent Ali to look after him. He
went to the cavern. and finding his muir
dered brother, felt almost as badly cut up
as his brother was He packed the last
four sad remains of his brother in one of
the sacks which We're on the mule he
brought along, and then to balance it
make accounts square with his brother, as
it were-thoughtfuly stuffed the other
sacks with gold and things, so that, rs be
afterwards reckoned it, his brothers four
quarters on one side of the mule were
equal TO thirteen hundred thousand six
hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty
cents on the other. 1t is rarely that Il
brother can be male SO useful, dead or
alive, especially with only four quarters
The next business, after getting his
quadrilateral brother home. was TO bury
him without creating suspicion among
the neighbors. TO account reasonably
| tor his death, a servant was sent to some
drug store for whiskey, under the pre-
tence that Cassm wanted it tor medical
purposes, so when it was given out next
day that whiskey killed him, no one
thought strange Of the circumstances at
all.
There was an old cobbler, who lived ON
a corner hard by, who opened his stall
very early in the morning to accommodate
any one who, having been drinking hard
the night before, wanted an early ''cob-
bier" He consented to sew CaSsim for i
consideration, and was accordingly blind
folded and led to the house He asked ii
they wanted ''yellow fair stitch and dl
Vlded,' or Just common "black welt :"
but Ali, who knew nothing OF shoemaker 5
lingo, but he thought his brother had been
welted enough already, said, .iust 90
ahead and sew him up" The cobbler
| performed very neat job, though he lett
Il stitch in his side that Cassim never got
| over. He offered to halt-sole him, too,
and set up his heels, but further services
were declined.
CaSsim was buried the next with be
coming honors, and the various societies
to which he belonged attended the funeral,
each Of them holding meetings afterwards
and passing resolutions of respect, which
were published the next day in all the
| papers. EngrOssed copies Of these reSo-
lutions were presented to the afflicted
| widow, but after kicking around for a
| few days they We're sold for old rags. the
widow marrying again. 1t is impossible
with the space have to infinitely follow
the Varlous stratagems employed by the
| robbers to learn who it was that possessed
| the secret of the cave Suffice it to say.
they at length did, and plans We're laid
| tor his destruction. One day the captain
of the Forty Thieves came to Ali Baha'S
| house Che had moved into CaSsim's brown
stone fronD and pretended he was dealer
in petroleum. He had Il large quantity OF
non-eXplosive oil in casks, which he de-
sired to store with him for a few DAYS
certainly" said Ali, who was the soul
OF hospitality, ''roll it right into my par
lor." which was done. Now some ofthese
casks contained non-explosive oil, while
| the others were filled with something al
most as deadly, though not quitn-mur-
| derous robbers. 1t was shrewdlv con
lectured by the robber chief that if the oil
did not blow up the whole family. which
was probable his men would dispatch
them during the night
| The plot failed, however A servant
girl, who had been sitting up pretty late
in the kitchen with her young man, went
to one of the casks to repenish her lamp
which was getting low, and discovered