cried Ali Baba and his son , `` what have you done to ruin us ? '' `` It was to preserve you , master , not to ruin you , '' answered Morgiana . `` See here , '' opening the false merchant 's garment and showing the dagger ; `` see what an enemy you have entertained ! Remember , he would eat no salt with you , and what more would you have ? Look at him ! he is both the false oil merchant and the Captain of the Forty Thieves . '' Ali Baba was so grateful to Morgiana for thus saving his life that he offered her to his son in marriage , who readily consented , and a few days after the wedding was celebrated with greatest splendor . At the end of a year Ali Baba , hearing nothing of the two remaining robbers , judged they were dead , and set out to the cave . The door opened on his saying : `` Open Sesame ! '' He went in , and saw that nobody had been there since the Captain left it . He brought away as much gold as he could carry , and returned to town . He told his son the secret of the cave , which his son handed down in his turn , so the children and grandchildren of Ali Baba were rich to the end of their lives . -LRB- 1 -RRB- -LRB- 1 -RRB- Arabian Nights . HANSEL AND GRETTEL Once upon a time there dwelt on the outskirts of a large forest a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children ; the boy was called Hansel and the girl Grettel . He had always little enough to live on , and once , when there was a great famine in the land , he could n't even provide them with daily bread . One night , as he was tossing about in bed , full of cares and worry , he sighed and said to his wife : `` What 's to become of us ? how are we to support our poor children , now that we have nothing more for ourselves ? '' `` I 'll tell you what , husband , '' answered the woman ; `` early to-morrow morning we 'll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood ; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread ; then we 'll go on to our work and leave them alone . They wo n't be able to find their way home , and we shall thus be rid of them . '' `` No , wife , '' said her husband , `` that I wo n't do ; how could I find it in my heart to leave my children alone in the wood ?
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