| Show fd A CONDENSED cond 1 CLASSICS CL i THE i ARABIAN NIGHTS 0 by the tb PRINCESS h ayrea ans S dark aasc 4 the th marv marcellous marvellous ellous tole that herlinde hera inde wd jd to klac KI li w s it a h or I 1 a or at lorlei 0 r ten ol of love iov and ad adventure and mad in mrle ale cannot be attributed to any one other for the very rood good reason that there never was th abor r the they are popular dorler th t h a t bout abou t the y year e a or 1450 were put into at the form br a pr ten fount tory atory t taller elle a per ier wan lau in primitive I 1 co e I 1 on in it I 1 e I 1 few of th the P people ale ran can read nail and where books are difficult to a get theme professional rendered are la in great demand nd they pick up be here and there tale the that t appeal to all and bind the bem into a long narrative some ome people time have thought that 1101 homero lee long poems ol la in this way tiny eve lu in the near et east the tr tra teler r nud flad t thebie broon e today A an ia denue eaber r 11 nc e collects t to hear th them em bah a niall it f fee for the pool alexe of linte ninor the en aler dertle ir decisions nil me h he ike to and ad fro nod alwa stop III liln arp tl si jt before an n elt elf m t that bat he win be mired of listener on t the b morrow ill no nud die lenee nee fo follow ilow III aln re with b interest intermit Inter mt ly IT ahn form he thrilling cepl pl roder mode with alth lively pantomime year vear after 3 benr mr theme troops of at listeners Ka xa therea centuries DRO the tory atory teller dine ardd the h tole that did not bot hold the mot teof lan of him bill it allx denem te arroo gando ily the process of elimination iti went on an until only the bent beat w were re banded down by word of mouth from generation to generation then them home unknown benefactor of mankind had them written down rod and comm commuted ronner ted them with the framework of made and nd shahriar and theme ore the ab A b ight th tant n t have hae and gor wa in en and women for decades decade was a S daughter and when she besought her an fn fattier aber to wed her to king lair it I 1 t v wal af muse eft for grief to vizier for ench each day was ans I 1 it it wont to put to death ha alq bride of the day before it befell however flint S I 1 had her will As she load had was wakeful and to beguile him she begun began a story of mag ninell le dawn broke before she had finished and so eager was ns to hear it all that he gave no order for tier her execution for a thousand and one nights did tills this while told of love war and sorcery of nf mugs kings ars and rogues of lands where when din diamonds monds were more plentiful than linn pebbles and bigger than eggs of intrigues in the lanes innes and bazaars of oriental cities in towns and deserts and far islands did necromancers work their wills horses flew dogs tallie talked d and creatures cren tures greater than whales peopled the deeps ogres agres and enormous apes crept out of forests birds so great that their wings darkened the day swooped from the skies here too were lovers in palaces and hovels bold and cowardly yet all 11 so enamored that they swooned at the very thought of the beloved underlying all was the colorful orl orient with barbers and porters jo jostling astling caliphs and princesses in the thronged thron ged and picturesque tunes lanes of three cities whose very names conjure up romance bagdad Bagda dt cairo and damns damascus CUB now these are the best liked of she beraz tales mies tho the story of Alad aladdin dins tamp of aladdin son of a poor tailor tallor in china a prankish scamp an african magician guided him to a subterranean cave where he found the lamp that tant summoned the genie out of vio nothingness thing did this genie spread banquets tinn for aladdin and robe him in rich raiment he provided him retinues ups s of 8 slaves loves bearing basins heaped high with precious stones who carried to the king gladdins Alad dins for file he hand cl the beautiful princess barroul baudour bou dour in a night did the genie raise a maltice of glowing wonders of shining marble and gold and sliver silver with windows In crusted with diamonds eni ein aralds and rubles with fragrant gardens and open courts so ainuddin mar rd r d the princess and they knew great joy hut dut the magician returned stole the lamp and in ili a trice transported the hie palace anti the princess to abrien then was aladdin woeful boot by ill agle he found his beloved pol poisoned tho the magician inn glelnn seized the inma tind came to china where lie he and fla baudour lived happily ever tift afterward erward the story of sinbad of the sailor and his fits ous voyages voyn wherein it Is related that sinbad landed upon wh what a t seemed nn an island but which chich was III grout figh I 1 that sank into the sen sea and of other I 1 voyages aind go greater enter wonders of which one ne nir elj most at the adventure w lh fill the lie roe roc the lie bird so huge that it feeds feed ita young with elephants sinbad had fastened himself to the docs rocs roc s leg find it loro bore lihn him to nn an mo ble strewn with etli pre precious clong stones boiu wh ch tic lie escaped liy by hinding binding him self to it a cheeps carcass and horne borne awny aw ns ay hy iy it 11 v and rf of th gotine wl who 0 roasted wen nun itna WT sill bail bad blinded blinded with a red hot ir iron arie ant of the terrible old man of the bic sea sat upon Sin shoulders and coull couk not be shaken off until he was intorf bated with wine and sinbad slew him the story ot of the forty Thle thieve veso of all bubo baba ind and his discovery olf of the stone artone that swung wide when a vole voice cried open sesame I 1 in the cave was waa the booty of forty thieves and all AH baba took home sacks bulging with gold bold and silver the robbers traced him and in the pulse guise of a merchant the captain lodged with him in the yard were stored great jars one filled with oil and the others concealing the thes c yes ni ill would it have fared with alt all naba baba had not Mor morgiana glana a cunning slave detected the trick and with boll ing oil scalded to death the wicked miscreants the captain escaped d but returned in a new disguise and again 1 ild I Morg larin save tier her master Ill by stub stab bing his enemy so all baba married tier her to hisson Ms son and lie he lived joyous upon treasures from the cave many other fascinating stories of the ainsle horse of ebony and ivory so fashioned tint that its rider liy by pressing divers buttons could fly whither he willed it bore boie a persian prince to a guilt great police palace ili liui a Jor girt about with greenery Riep nery there ha h into the eyes ees of a princess and tiny they were enraptured it befell that the they y rode away on the magic hoesr hut but before they tin were w ere wed w ed an evil mr i abducted the prncess princess the discont late prince wan wondered derol for far and at last lie fourie 1 l her whom he loved an and again tho journeyed the air to his horie home where they wire were brinn lei with extending exceeding pomp point and lived happily of n poor fisherman who drew his net froni from file lie sea arid found therein but it a brass bottle lie ile cut open the top and there str earned forth a cloud of smoke it collected and behold I 1 it wits was a genie so go huge that ills his head was in ili the clo clouds rids ile he would have killed his rescuer had not the wily fisherman insisted that never neer could lie he have come from the bottle the silly genie squeezed himself inside whereupon the fisherman clapped on the top nor would lie he remove it until the genie swore to serve sene him faithfully this oath it was that led to the finding of the ensorcelled ensor celled prince with legs turned to stone and the lake wherein swam fish of four colors colon that had once been men after marvelous happenings the prince was made as other moin men and the fish were men and worn women pro and the fisherman was so rewarded that hat he was the wealthiest man of his time of prince and the princes PrInce badouin beautiful beyond compare and of how ench each saw the other in sleep and was smitten with great love loe but when they awakened they sow saw not one another for they had been brought together b by genii g alt who ila had carried badouin out of chinn to t a the confines of 0 persia persa I 1 grief so nf ar dietes dieted tooth both that they sickened an nna were insane from sorrow then n gnp from badouin journeyed journ pd fm fin over oer annd and sea until lie found foun I 1 and returned with ahli to china win re the lip loers wire were werl weil ded but while they were tr traveling t ti land hp be wrin dered away dreel el livi relf in hl hi raiment rainie nt and passed herself for n ratio ninn it befell that she found figov r in ili vie tilt eves ee of a king and was married to 11 princess and too ton cadir to this land and knew not tits ills waft who heaped honors upon him at ln l she revealed reen led herself and wa ns lillo Wil ni Is it a woman and tool also to wife the princess whom rn ra had married and they wore were together of a merchant who awaiting benth nt at the hands of a cruel benle was n joined by three old men one leading lendl ni n gazelle another two black hound arill anc the third a mute mule now it li 14 that the gazelle enzelle and mule hit and been wicked wives transformed by magic and likewise had the hounds bounds boon been evil ell brothers when t the he genie was wag told these sto stories ries of en enchantment he was fan so diverted that he be spared pared the mer chants life about harunah Ha runal al rashid and of many enles the caliph hartin hanin al bashia and djs going into the lanes innes mid and bazaars of 0 bagdad where he chanced upon strange people who told him tr stories of bingle once lie he sniped supped three ladies indies of dazzling beauta rii aisil I with him were a porter dazed with the tb he saw and three bennt sons of klaps nil blind in ille left eye eve not knowing the fiill they th told of their fantastic adventures and sufferings ann and lie he rewarded them and agal he a bedaar who lin fill elored him tt to him 11 youth onali mib spurred cruelly a cnare upon which lie rode and a rope aunker who lind ind alsen froll N pity airty to did lie benr and tina too did lie he reward nor should ahu ilo hns nn the ang lie ire who o i in III lint lir he 1111 1 lil hf wife were dei daxl i won fco nuli gil alid so 0 o ninny s froin th of like import Is the he of cf the who nho bend arid of the talkative barber who rv nto stored him to life of till nil those who had themselves eq murderers of the hie mimi back and of the amazing nips fifles tint that dwy related so it clillie to pa enss that by 1 the lie erd pi il of the thousand Inrid mill me a IS linh ih rna was so delighted in ili HIP of that tic liv ivell led har with rv binl al pomp and they lies 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