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Part one

asim and Ali Baba were brothers. They lived in
Ka city in Persia. Kasim was rich. He had a shop.
He bought and sold gold there. Ali Baba was poor. He
collected wood in the forest and sold it in the city.

Ali Baba once heard the distant sound of horses’
hooves as he was gathering wood.

Who is coming here, he thought to himself. They

might be thieves who want to take my wood, I suppose.
I’ll slink away into this tree. He hurriedly scaled the
tree, hiding among the branches. The riders showed up.
Counting forty men, Ali Baba. They had black beards
and were large and powerful. They each carried a large

saddlebag. “I was correct.”They are thieves, Ali Baba
reasoned.

The tree was next to a large rock. “Open, sesame!” the
bandit captain commanded as he approached it. A big
door opened right away. The door in the rock closed
behind them as they all entered.

The captain and his troops spent a considerable

amount of time in the cave. Ali Baba started to feel worn
out. They emerged when the door unexpectedly opened.
Their saddlebags were no longer filled. When the captain
yelled “Shut, sesame!” the door shut and vanished. They
mounted their mounts and galloped off.

Ali Baba climbed down the tree. I’ll give those magic
words a shot. He pondered, “Perhaps there is treasure
in the cave.” Sesame, open! he yelled, as the entrance in
the rock flung open. He could see clearly because the

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