Aladdin - Part
2
The stranger came at eight. He had a servant with him. The
servant brought in cakes and fruit and flowers.
‘This is wonderful!’ said the stranger.
‘I’ve wanted to meet the wife of my brother for
so long. Show me where my brother used to work.’
Aladdin’s mother showed him Mustapha’s chair.
‘Oh, my poor brother!’ the stranger cried.
‘Why did you leave us?’
This made Aladdin’s mother sad. ‘Please
don’t cry,’ she said. ‘He has gone to a
happy place.’
‘You are right,’ said the stranger. ‘But
you are family now. I must help you.’
‘You can be a
merchant’
The stranger turned to Aladdin. ‘What work do you do,
young man?’
‘Work!’ Aladdin’s mother cried.
‘That boy doesn’t work. He plays with his
friends all day. He only uses this house to eat and sleep
in.’
The stranger looked at Aladdin. Aladdin looked down at the
floor. ‘This is not good,’ said the stranger.
‘You are not a boy now, Aladdin. You are a young
man.’
‘I want to work,’ said Aladdin, but it was not
true. He hated work.
‘Good,’ said the stranger. ‘Would you
like to be a merchant?’
Lazy Aladdin
‘What is a merchant?’ asked Aladdin.
‘A merchant buys and sells things,’ said
Aladdin. ‘You can open a shop. I will give you things
to sell. Would you like that?’
‘Oh yes!’ said Aladdin. ‘I want to help
my mother.’
But Aladdin did not want to help his mother. ‘In a
shop I can talk all day to my friends,’ he thought.
‘And I can have anything I want!’
The next morning the stranger took Aladdin into the city.
He bought the boy clothes. ‘Tomorrow we will find you
a shop,’ he said. ‘But today I will show you
some beautiful gardens outside the city.’
They walked out of the city. Soon Aladdin began to feel
tired. He wanted to go home. ‘Where are
gardens?’ he asked.
‘Very near,’ said the stranger.
Something
Strange
They walked between two mountains. Then they came to a
small field. ‘This is the place,’ said the
stranger. ‘Now you will see some wonderful
things.’
‘Can we sit down?’ asked Aladdin.
‘I’m very tired.’
‘First you must find some wood,’ said the
stranger. ‘I want to make a fire.’
Aladdin went and found some wood. But he was not happy.
There was something strange about his new uncle.
Magician
The stranger made a fire. Then he said some strange magic
words over it.
‘What are you doing?’ asked Aladdin.
‘You’re a magician, aren’t you
Uncle?’
The magician did not answer. Suddenly the sky turned dark.
The ground began to move.
'What's happening?'
The ground in front of Aladdin opened. He looked down and
saw a large square stone. On the stone was a large ring.
‘What’s going on?’ cried Aladdin. He was
very frightened and tried to run away. The magician caught
him.
‘Stay here!’ said the magician. There was no
smile on his face now. He was very angry.
‘What’s happening, Uncle?’ Aladdin cried.
What do you think will
happen next?
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