Page 58 - Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp

people by whom he was much loved.

“ Go, wretch!” cried the Sultan, “ I
grant thee thy life j but if ever thou
appearest before me again death shall

overtake thee, unless in forty days thou
bringest me tidings of my daughter*”

Aladdin, wretched and down-fallen,
left the palace, not knowing whither to
turn his steps. At length he stopped

at a brook to bathe his eyes, that

smarted with the tears he had shed* as
he stooped, his foot slipped, and catching
hold of a piece of rock to save himself

from falling, he pressed the magician’s
ring which he still wore on his finger,

and the Genius of the ring appeared
before him, saying, “ What wouldst thou
have?55— “ Oh powerful Genius,” cried

Aladdin, “ bring my palace back to the
place where yesterday it stood ! ”