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in great affliction, they were not surprised
to hear shortly, that Cassim had died of his
disorder.
The next difficulty was to bury him with
out discovery, but Morgiana was ready to
contrive a plan for that also. She put on
her veil, and went to a distant part of the
city very early in the morning, where she
found a poor cobbler just opening his stall,
she put a piece of gold into his hand, and
told him he should have another, if he
would suffer himself to be blindfolded and
go with her, carrying his tools with him.
Mustapha the cobbler hesitated at first, but
the gold tempted him, and he consented;
when Morgiana, carefully covering his
eyes, so that he could not see a step of
the way, led him to Cassin's house; and
taking him to the room where the body was
lying, removed the bandage from his eyes,
and bade him sew the mangled limbs to-
gether.
Mustapha obeyed her orders, and having
received two pieces of gold, was led blind-
folded the same way back to his stall.
Morgiana then covered the body with a
winding sheet, sent for the undertaker to
make preparations for the funeral and
Cassim was buried with all due solemnity
that very day.
Ali Baba now removed his few goods
