Alibaba Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and his elder brother Cassim are the sons of a merchant After the death of their father the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes welltodo building on their fathers business Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a woodcutter One day Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest and he happens to overhear a group of forty thieves visiting their treasure store The treasure is in a cave the mouth of which is sealed by magic It opens on the words open sesame and seals itself on the words close sesame When the thieves are gone Ali Baba enters the cave himself and discreetly takes a single bag of gold coins home