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into the cavern, and found the halls ; he went through them,
crossed the garden, took down the lamp, and put it into his
bosom. As he returned, he stopped to admire the fine fruits
with which the tree3 were loaded. Some bore fruit entirely
white, others red, green, blue, and yellow* Although he ima­
gined they were coloured glass, he was so pleased with them,
that he filled his pockets, and then returned to the entrance cf
the cavern. When he had come thither, he said to the magi­
cian, “ Uncle, lend me your hand to assist me in gettiug up.”—
“ Give me the lamp first," said the magician. “ I cannot till I
am up,Tr replied Aladdin. The magician would have the lamp
hefort* he would help Aladdin to get out; and Aladdin refused
to give it him before he was out of the cavern. The magician
became so enraged, that he threw some perfume into the fire,
and* pronouncing a fe w magical words, the stone returned to its
former place, and thus buried Aladdin, who in vain called out
that he was ready to give up the lamp.
The magician, by the powers of art, had discovered that if
he could become posscsst d of a wonderful lamp that was hidden
somewhere in the world, it would render him greater than any
prtnec. He afterwards discovered that this lamp was in a sub­
terraneous cavern between two mountains of Tartary. He
accordingly proceeded to the town which was nearest to this
treasure, and knowing that he must receive it from the hands
of some other person, he thought Aladdin very suitable to his
purpose. When Aladdin had procured the lamp, the magician
was in such extreme haste to become possessed of this wonder­
ful acquisition, or was so unwilling that the boy should reveal
the circumstance, that he defeated his own intention. In this
manner he forgot also the ring which he had formerly given to
Aladdin ; and which, he had informed the youth, would always
preserve him from harm ; but went away without either.