Page 20 - Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp

spoke some mysterious words* At the

same instant the ground slightly shook,
and opening in the spot where they

stood, showed a square stone of about
a foot and a half across, with a brass
ring fixed in the centre.

Aladdin was frightened out of his
wits, and was about to run away, when

the African suddenly gave him a box on
the ear so violent as to beat him down

and very nearly to knock some o f his
teeth out. Poor AJaddin, with tears in