One day Aladdin's mother said,"Go out into the field and get some flowers;we will sell the flowers and get money to buy food,"So Aladdin went into a field to get flowers.
Now the place where the lamp was hidden was in a hole in that field.
There was a heavy door on the top of the hole.The door was almost covered with grass so that no one would know that it was there.But the magician know where to look,and he found the door.He opened the door and looked down into the hole:it was very small.It was so small that he could not go down it.
Then he saw Aladdin.He called him.
"Boy!"he said."Come here...What is your name?"
"Aladdin,sir."
"I want you to do something for me,Aladdin."
"Yes,sir."
"There is a lamp at the bottom of that hole;but the hole is too small that I cannot go down it.Go down into the hole and bring me the lamp."
Then he gave Aladdin a ring.He said,"There is danger in that hole.There may be a genie who will try to kill you.Take this ring:it will keep you safe."
Aladdin went down the hole.At the bottom he saw a small room.He saw the lamp on a table in the room;he took it and went back.He climbed up to the top.
The door was shut.He called and the magician opened it a little.He said,"Give me the lamp,Aladdin."
Aladdin thought,"I do not like this man.When he has got the lamp he will shut the door and leave me here to die."So he said,"Open the door and I will come out.Then I will give you the lamp."
"No!"said the magician."Give me the lamp now.Then I will open the door and help you to come out."
Aladdin said,"No!open the door,then I will give it to you."
The magician thought,"I will leave him there for a night,and tomorrow he will do as I say."So he shut the door.Aladdin was shun in,in the hole.
He went back to the little room.He was afraid:"The magician has left me here to die.How can I get out?My mother will not know where I am:she will think that I am dead.If I can get out I will give her the beautiful ring.We can sell it and get food.and we can get some money for this old lamp."
He rubbed the ring.
There was a GREat noise,and a Genie stood in front of him,"I am the Genie of the ring,"he said."You rubber the ring and I have come.What do you want?"
"I want to get out of this place,"said Aladdin."Take me out of here.Take me home to my mother."
The Genie took Aladdin and put him down at the door of his mother's house.
"Where have you been?"said his mother,"Why have you brought no flowers?...What shall we eat?I have no food in the house and we have no money to buy any food."
Aladdin shoed the lamp."We can sell this,"he said,"and buy food with money."
She looked at the lamp."We shall not get much money for that dirty old lamp.But I will clean it,and the we may get more."So she rubber the lamp.
A Genie stood in front of her.
"Oh!"cried Aladdin's mother."Who are you?"
"I am the Genie of the lamp."he said."You rubbed this lamp and I have come.What do you want?"
"We want food."said Aladdin.
The Genie set a wonderful meal down on the table-enough food for two or three day.They ate;then Aladdin's mother said,"We will put this food away and eat the rest of it tomorrow."
One day when Aladdin was walking in the street,Princess Badrul passed by.She was very beautiful.Aladdin had never seen anyone so beautiful.
Each day at the same time he went out to see the Princess go by.Then he went home;he took the lamp and rubbed it.The Genie stood in front of him:"You rubbed the lamp and I have come.What do you want?"
"I want to marry the Princess Badrul.I want a fine house,fine clothes,jewels and money.Make me the richest man in this country."
The Genie did this.
The Aladdin went to the King and said,"I am the richest man in this country.I want to marry your daughter,Princess Badrul."
When the Princess Badrul saw Aladdin and talked with him,she liked him.And,as she saw more of him,she liked him more.Then she went to her father,the King,and said,"I will marry Aladdin.I think we shall be very happy."
So Aladdin and the Princess were married,and they lived in the GREat house-the biggest and most beautiful house in the city.
The magician had gone back to Africa.A man came to him from China.
"Well,"said the magician,"tell me what has been happening in China."
"A young man called Aladdin has married the Princess Badrul.They live in the finest house in the city.He is very rich."
"Aladdin?"said the magician."Aladdin!On the next day when I went back to that hole in the field,I called,but he did not answer.So I thought that he was dead.But he did not die!He got out of the hole and he has the lamp!The Genie of the lamp has done all this for him.I must go back to China and get the lamp from him."
So the magician went to China.He got some new lamps which looked like the lamp which Aladdin had got.He waited till Aladdin went out of the home.Then he came to the house.He saw the Princess and said,"I will give new lamps for old ones.Give me your old lamps and I will give you new lamps."
The Princess said,"We have no old lamps:the house is new and all the lamps are new."
"Is there any old lamp in the house?"
"Aladdin has a old lamp,"said the Princess."I will go and get it."
The magician took the lamp.He rubbed it and the Genie stood in front of him."You rubbed the lamp,and I have come.What do you want?"
"Take the house and everything and everyone in it to Africa."
Aladdin came back to his house.But there was no house.There was only a field where the house had been.The house and the Princess Badrul had gone.
"What can I do?"said Aladdin.Then he thought of the ring."Perhaps the Genie of the ring can help me."
So he rubbed the ring,and the Genie stood in front of him.
"You rubbed the ring,and I have come.What do you want?"
"Someone has taken the lamp and has told the Genie of the lamp to take away my house--and the Princess Badrul.Where he put it?Where is Princess Badrul?"
"The house is somewhere in Africa,"said the Genie,"and the Princess is in it."
"Bring it back again!"said Aladdin."Bring her back"
"I cannot do that,"said the Genie."The Genie of the lamp is a very GREat Genie.He is stronger than I am."
"Then take me to the house."said Aladdin.
The Genie took Aladdin to Africa.There he saw the house.He waited until the magician went out of the house.Then he went in.
"Oh,"cried the Princess,"I know that you would find me and save me.What shall we do?"
"Where is the lamp?"aid Aladdin."We must get it."
"The magician always carries it with him.It is with him day and night."
"Take this powder,"said Aladdin."Put it in the magician's food.When he eat it he will fall into a deep sleep."
Aladdin hid.The magician came back and the Princess brought him the food.He ate it and fall into a deep sleep.
The Aladdin came back and took the lamp.He rubbed it,and the Genie stood in front of him.
"You rubbed the lamp,"said the Genie,"and I have come.What do you want?"
"Take the magician and put him in the hole where I found the lamp and shut the door so that he cannot get out."
"What more do you want?"said the Genie.
"Take the house back to China."
So the Genie brought the house back to China.The King was glad when he saw Aladdin and the Princess.
When the King died,Aladdin became the King.
