ALL BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
One day, when all Baba was in the forest, and had just cut enough wood to load his asses, 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 that 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.