The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-25

self to a sleeps carcass and was
borne away By vuIture. And Of the
giant who roasted men and whom Sin.
bad blinded with a red-hot iron. And
Of the terrible Old Man Of the Sea who
sat upon Slnbad's shoulders and could
not be shaken of until he was intoxL
Gated with wine and Sfnbad slew him.
The Story Of the Forty Thieves.
OF Ali Bahia and his discovery Of the
stone that swung wide when a voice
cried "0pen, Sesamep' In the cave
was the booty Jf forty thieves and All
Bahia took home sacks buIging with
gold and silver. The robbers traced
him and In the guise Of merchant the
captain lodged with him. In the yard
were stored great jars, one filed with
oil and the others eoncealing the
thieves. III would 1t have Jared with
Ali Bahia had not Morgiana. cunning
slave, detected the trick and with boil
ing oil scalded to death the wicked
miscreants. The captain escaped, but
returned in a new disguise and again
did Morgiana save her master by stab
bing his enemy. So Ali Bahia married
her to his son and he lived joyousIy
upon treasures from the cave.
Many Other Fascinating Stories.
OF the Magic Horse Of ebony and
ivory, 80 fashioned that its rider, By
pressing divers buttons, could fly
whittier he willed. 1t bore a Persian
prince to great palace in metropolis
grit about with greenery. There he
looked into the eyes of princess and
they were enraptured. 1t befelI that
they rode away on the Magic Horse.
but before they were wed an evil man
abducted the princess. The dfsconso-
late prince wandered far and at last
he found 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
/ brass bottle He cut open the top
and there streamed forth a cloud of
smoke Il collected and, behold it
was genie, 80 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 inside, whereupon
the fisherman clapped on the top, nor
would he remove 1t until the genie
swore to serve him faithfully. This
oath it vas 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 happenings the
| prince was made as other men and the
| fish were men and women. And the
| fisherman was so rewarded that he
was the wealthiest man of his time.
OF Prince CamaralZaman and tf1t
Princess Badoura, beautiful beyond
compare, and of how each saw the
great love. But when they awakened
they saw not one another for they had
been brought together by genii who
had carried Badoura out of China to
the confines of Persia. Grief so af-
fiicted both that they sickened and
were insane from sorrow. Then a mes
senger from Badoura journeyed tar
over land and sea until he found
Camaralzaman and returned with him
| to China, where the lovers were wed.
ded. But while they were travelling 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 king and was married TO q
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 woman and Camaralzaman took
| also to wife the princess whom Badou-
"a had married and they were happy
| together.
| OF a merchant who, awaiting death
at the hands of g 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 gazeile and the mule had been
| wicked wives transformed by magic
| and likewise had the hounds been evil
brothers. When the genie was told
these stories of enchantment, he was
so diverted that he spared the mer-
| chants life.
About Aarun-aE-Rashid.
And Of many tales concerning the
Caliph Harun-al-Rashid and his going
| disguised into the lanes and baEaars OF
Bagdad, where he CHANGED 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 tiazed with the
magnifcence he saw and three mendi-
cants, sons of kings all blind in the
left eye. Not knowing the Galiph they