![]() Mustapha chastised him, but Aladdin was incorrigible, and his father, to his great grief, was forced to abandon him to his idleness. When he was old enough to learn a trade his father took him into his own shop, and taught him how to use his needle but all his father's endeavors to keep him to his work were vain, for no sooner was his back turned than the boy was gone for that day. ![]() He was disobedient to his father and 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 own age. ![]() His son, who was called Aladdin, was a very careless and idle fellow. He could hardly, by his daily labor, maintain himself and his family, which consisted only of his wife and a son. In one of the large and rich cities of China there once lived a tailor named Mustapha. ![]()
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