Ali BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
One day, when Ali Baba was in the forest, and the just cut enough wood to load his ass,
he saw at a distance a great cloud of dust, which seemed to be approaching.
He observed it very attentively and soon distinguished a troop of horsemen coming briskly on:
and though they might prove so,
and without considering what would become of his asses, he resolved to save himself.
He climbed a large thick tree and placed himself in the middle, from whence he could see all the passed without being seen : and this tree stood at the foot of a rock which rose very high above it and so steep that nobody could climb it.