This eBook was produced by JC Byers. ALAEDDIN and the ENCHANTED LAMP; Zein Ul Asnam and the King of the Jinn: Two Stories Done into English from the Recently Discovered Arabic Text by John Payne London 1901 To Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, K.C.M.G., H.B.M. CONSUL, TRIESTE. My Dear Burton, I give myself the pleasure
Aladdin
There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother’s tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend