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I . The False Uncle A long time ago , in a big city in China , there lived a poor tailor called Mustapha . A tailor is a man who makes clothes . Mustapha had a wife and only one child , a son called Aladdin . Aladdin was a lazy boy who never listened to anyone . His father wanted to teach him to make clothes . But the boy always ran away from the shop and played in the streets all day . His father was so unhappy about his son that he became ill , and a few months later he died . After that , Aladdin’s mother spun cotton into thread and sold the thread to buy bread . Aladdin did not help her . He went on living like this until he was fifteen . One day , when he was playing in a square , a man stopped to watch him . This man was a magician from Africa , so we will call him the African magician . The magician looked closely at the boy’s face . Then he asked some people about the boy’s family and walked up to him . “ My boy , isn’t your father Mustapha , the tailor ? ” he asked . “ Yes , sir , ” said Aladdin . “ But he died a long time ago . ” When he heard this , the magician put his arms around the boy . There were tears in his eyes . “ Oh , my dear boy ! I am your uncle . Your father was my brother , ” he said . “ I have travelled for many years , and now I have come back to see him . And you tell me that he is dead ! ” Then he gave Aladdin a handful of coins . “ Go home and tell your mother that I will visit her tomorrow , ” he said . Aladdin ran home , very happy with the money . “ Mother , do I have an uncle ? ” he asked . And he told her about the man in the square . “ It is true that your father had a brother , ” said his mother . “ But I always thought that he was dead . ” The next day the magician gave Aladdin two gold coins for his mother , so she could buy food for supper . In the evening he came to the house with bottles of wine and lots of fruit . He asked the mother to show him the place on the sofa where Mustapha always sat . Then he knelt down there and kissed the sofa . He was crying . “ My poor brother ! ” he said . “ I came too late to see you again ! ” At supper he told the mother about his life . “ I left this country forty years ago , ” he said . “ I travelled through India , Persia , Arabia , Syria and Egypt . Then I lived in Africa for a long time . ” After that he turned to the boy . “ And you , nephew , what is your work ? ” Aladdin looked down at the floor . His mother answered for him , and she began to cry . “ He does nothing all day . I spin cotton from morning to night , and we can hardly buy our bread . ” “ That is not good , nephew , ” said the magician . “ You must earn your living . If you don’t want to learn a trade , I will buy a shop for you . You can sell fine cloth there . Then you will live like an honest man . ”
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