Excerpt from Stories From the Arabian Nights' Entertainments: Embracing Aladdin; Or, the Wonderful Lamp, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Ali Cogia, a Merchant of Bagdad, Envy Punished; Or, the Three Sisters, and Sindbad the Sailor; With 24 Engravings The mother of Aladdin, finding that her son would not follow his father's business, shut up the shop, sold off the implements of that trade, and With the money she got for them, and what she could get by spinning cotton, thought to maintain herself and her son. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.