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then put forty nuts into a jar told



            Jamell that if  this jar full of  nuts




            goes empty it means that he is out



            of  days. Now, it happened that one



            of  the King’s own servants was




            one of  the forty thieves, and he had



            heard the King speak with Ahmed.



            That same evening, he hurried to the




            thieves’ meeting place and reported                                                                                            The chief  laughed and said it



            to their chief. “There is a diviner                                                                                          would be impossible to complete




            who says he will find the treasure                                                                                           this task in forty days but just for



            and the thieves in forty days!”                                                                                              precaution he ordered the servant


                                                                                                                                         to spy on the diviner and find out





                                                                                                                                         what he can. So the servant climbed
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