Favourite Tales from the Arabian Nights

by Anonymous

“To hear is to obey,”

But I regret that, to-morrow being Friday, I shall not be able to open his shop, as ’tis meeting-day when all the merchants, after congregational prayer, go forth to the gardens and pleasances. On the Sabbath, however, Inshallah!—an it please the Creator—we will do our business.

“To hear is to obey, O our lord the Sultan!”

But after darkness fell and it was time for sleep, Aladdin arose and, retiring to his chamber, rubbed the Lamp, whereupon the Slave incontinently appeared and was bidden to bring him the Sultan’s daughter together with her bridegroom as on the past night ere the Wazir’s son could abate her maidenhead.