The Washington herald., 1919-07-08

the stone that swung wide when a
voice cried, open. Sesamew In the
cave was the booty OF forty thieves
and All Baba took homo sacks buig-
ing with gold and silver. The rob-
bers traced him and in the guise Of
a merchant, the captain lodged with
him In the yard were stored great
jars, one filled with oil and the 9TH
ers concealing the thieves. Ill would
it have Jared with Ali Baba had not
a cunning slave. detected
the trick and with boiling oil scald-
ed to death the wicked miscreants.
The captain escaped but returned in
a new disguise and again did Nor
giana save her master by stabbing
his enemy. So Ali Baba married
her to his son and he lived joyously
upon treasures from the cave.
Many Other Fascinating Stories
OF the Magic Horse of ebony and
ivory. so fashioned that its rider,
by pressing divers buttons, could
fly whittier he willed. 1t bore a
Persian prince to a great palace in
a metropolis girt about with green
cry. There he looked into the eyes
of a princess and they were enrap-
tured. 1t befell that they rode away
on the Magic Horse, but before they
were wed an evil man abducted the
princess. The disconsolate prince
her whom he loved and again they
journeyed through the air to his
home where they were married with
exceeding pomp and lived happily.
OF poor fisherman who drew his
net from the sea and found therein
but a brass bottle. He cut open the
top and there streamed forth a cloud
of smoke. 1t collected, and behold!
it was a genie, SO huge that his
head was in the clouds. He would
have killed his rescuer had not the
willy fisherman insisted that never
could he have come from the bottle.
The silly genie squeezed himself in
side. whereupon the fisherman clap
ped on the top, nor would he re-
move II until the genie swore to
serve him faithfully. This oath II
was that led to the finding of the
ensorcelled prince with legs turned
to stone and the lake wherein swan
fish of four colors that had once
been men After marvellous hap
penings, the prince was made as
other men and the fsh were men
and women And the fisherman was
so rewarded that he was the
wealthiest man of his time
OF Prince CamafalZaman and the
Princess Baudoura- beautiful be-
yond compare, and of how each saw
the other in sleep and was smitten
with great love But when they
they saw not one anoth-
er for they had been brought to-
Eether by genii who had carried
Badoura out of China to the con-
fines OF Persia Grief so afflicted
both that they sickened and were
insane from SORROW. Then a mes
senger from Badoura journeyed far
over land and sea until he found
Camaralzaman and returned with
him to China where the lovers were
welded. But while they were trav-
cling to Camaralzaman's land he
wandered away. Badoura dressed
herself in his raiment and passed
herself for a man. 1t befell that
she found favor in the eyes of a
king and was married to a princess.
And Camaralzaman too came to this
land and knew not his wife who
heaped honors upon him. At last
she revealed herself and was known
as a woman and Camaralzaman
Badoura had married and they were
happy together.
OF merchant who. awaiting
death at the hands OF a cruel genie.
was Joined by three old men. one
leading a gazelle, another two black
hounds, and the third a mule. Now
it Is related that the gazelle and
the mule had been wicked wives
transformed by magic and likewise
had the hounds been evil brothers.
When the genie was told these sto-
ries OF enchantment- he was so di-
verted that he spared the mer-
chants life.
About Haroun-al-Ra aschid.
And of many tales concerning the
Caliph Harounal-Raschid and his 60
ing disguised into the lanes and ba-
zaars of Bagdad where he chanced
upon strange people who told him
strange stories of magic. Once he
supped with three ladies OF dazzling
beauty and with him were a porter.
dazed with the magnificence he saw
and three mendicants, sons of kings,
all blind in the left eye. Not know
ing the Caliph they told of their
fantastic adventures and sufterings
and he rewarded them. And again
he encountered a beggar who i'm
plored him to strike him, a youth
who spurred cruelty a mare upon
which he rode and a rope-maker
who had risen suddenly from pow
erty to affluence. Their tales too
did he hear and them too did he re-
ward Nor should Abou-H -Hassan the
Wag be forgotten. whose trickery
in pretending that he and his wife
were dead won SO much gold and
so many laughs from the Caliph.
And Of like import is the mad tale
of the humpback who seemed dead
and of the talkative barber who re-
stored him to life. of all those who
had believed themselves murderers
of the humpback and Of the amaz-
ing tales that they related
So that it came to pass that by
the end OF a thousand and one
nights, Shahriar so delighted in the
cleverness OF Sheherazade that he
welded her again with regal pomp
and they lived happily ever after.
Oopynght 1919 By Post Publishing Co (The
Boston POST. Published By special arrangement
with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate AL
fights reserved
"Stelln Maris,, by william }.
Locke, as condensed by Miss Mona
Osborn. will be printed tomorrow.