ALADDIN and THE MAGIC LAMP ?

There once lived, in one of the large and rich cities of china,a tailor,named Mustapha.He was very poor.He could hardly,by his daily labour, maintain himself and his family,which consisted only of his wife and son.His son,who was called ALADDIN, was a very careless and idle fellow.He was disobedient to his father and story of Aladdin mother, and would go out early in the morning and stay out all day,playing in the streets and public places with idle children of his age.when he was old enough to learn a trade,his own shop, and taught him how to use his needles; but all his father's endeavors to keep him to his work were vain,for no sooner was his back turned then he was gone for that day.Mustapha chastised him;but Aladdin was incorrigible,and his father,to his great grief,was forced to abandon him to his idleness,and was so much troubled about him that he fell sick and died in a few months.Aladdin,who was now no longer restrained by the fear of a father,gave himself entirely over to his idle habits,and was never out of the streets from companions.This course he followed till he was fifteen years old, without giving his mind to any useful pursuit,or the least reflection on what would become of him.As he was one day playing, according to custom in the streets with his evil associates,a stranger passing by stood to observe him.This stranger was a sorcerer, known as the African magician,as he had been but two days arrived from Africa,his native country.