Jhona

Chapter 8 The End of the Forty Thieves
When the thieves came back to the cave, they were very surprised. Where were the four pieces of the dead man?'Another person knows about our cave,' theythought.' Perhaps the dead man had friends. But who
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the dead man ? We killed him before we could ask him.'' I have an idea,' said one thief.' I'll go into the town and ask some questions. Perhapssomebody will remember a dead man in four pieces.’ The thief went into the town. He asked a lot of questions but he didn't learn anything. Then he came to the shop of the old shoemaker. He watched the oldman at work.’ Your work is very good, old man,' said the thief.’ Yes,' said the shoemaker. 'I can make everything. Last week I made four pieces of a dead man into one piece.'' Really?' said thethief.' That's very interesting. Who was this dead man? Where did he live?'' I don't know,' answered the shoemaker. 'A girl came here and took me to a house. I did my work there.'' Take this gold,' saidthe thief.' Can you remember the way to the house?’The old shoemaker took the thief through the streets and stopped outside Kasim's door.' This was the house,' he said. The thief took the old man home.Then he went back to the other thirty-nine thieves and told them his story. One evening some weeks later, a seller of oil came to the door of Kasim' shouse. He had twenty donkeys with him. Each donkeycarried two big oil jars. Theoil seller said to AH Baba, 'Sir, I'm going to sell these jars of oil tomorrow. Please can I leave them outside your house tonight?''Bring in your donkeys and your jars,'said AH Baba. 'You can eat with us andstay here for the night.’ The oil seller brought in his donkeys and jars. Then AH Baba took him inside.
 
Marjana was in the kitchen. She started to cook thedinner but the oil in her lamp went out.' I know,' she thought.' There's a lot of oil in the jars outside. I can take a little for my lamp.’ She went outside to the jars. When she got to the first...