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cotton night and day in order to keep

herself and him.
When he was about fifteen years old,

he was one day playing in the streets with
some of his companions. A stranger
who was going by stopped and looked at

him. This stranger was a famous African
Magician* who, having need of the help of

some ignorant person, no sooner beheld
Aladdin than he knew by his whole air,
manner, and appearance, that he was a

person of small prudence, and very fit to
be made a tool of. The magician then

artfully inquired of some persons standing
near the name and character of Aladdin,
and the answers proved to him that he

had judged rightly of the boy.