00:00موسيقى
00:19Dominoes
00:20Quick Starter
00:22Arle Bubber and the Forty Thieves
00:26Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
00:30Read by Ben Elliott, Danica Fairman, David Menken, Paul Panting, Nigel Pilkington and Joe Wyatt
00:42Published and Copyrighted by Oxford University Press, 2012
00:52Chapter 1 Thieves in the Forest
01:02Music
01:13Our story is about Arle Bubber, a poor woodcutter in Persia.
01:25Arle Bubber's brother is a rich merchant. His name is Kasim.
01:37One day, Arle Bubber is working in the forest.
01:45Suddenly, he hears some men. They are coming nearer.
01:57He quickly goes behind a tree before the men arrive.
02:05There are forty of them. He sees some treasure in their bags.
02:14They're thieves, he thinks.
02:20The thieves stand near some rocks. Their chief says,
02:28Open sesame!
02:36A door in the rock opens and the men go into a cave.
02:47Later, the thieves come out. They say,
02:53Close sesame!
03:00And the door closes.
03:05Interesting. What's in that cave?
03:10Arle Bubber thinks.
03:13I'd like to see.
03:24Chapter 2 In the Treasure Cave
03:42After the thieves leave, Arle Bubber goes to the rocks.
03:51Open sesame! he says.
03:58The door opens and he walks in.
04:06Wow! he cries in the treasure cave.
04:12What beautiful things!
04:17He takes some gold coins and leaves.
04:25Close sesame! he says.
04:30The cave door closes behind him.
04:41Back home, Arle Bubber tells everything to his wife and son, Murad.
04:50Look at these coins! We're rich! he cries.
04:58How rich? his wife asks.
05:03She runs to Kasim's house.
05:08Can I borrow your scales? I want to weigh something.
05:14She tells Kasim's wife.
05:17Of course.
05:19Kasim's wife smiles.
05:22But what are you weighing?
05:25Oh, nothing important.
05:29Arle Bubber's wife answers her.
05:35Kasim's wife thinks.
05:38That's not true.
05:41She quickly puts some wax on the scales.
05:48Later, Arle Bubber's wife takes back the scales.
05:55Kasim's wife finds a gold coin on the wax.
06:01They're weighing gold.
06:04She thinks.
06:06They're richer than us.
06:10She tells Kasim.
06:13My brother's a poor woodcutter.
06:17Kasim cries angrily.
06:20How can he have lots of gold? I must learn more.
06:31Chapter 3. Kasim Visits the Cave.
06:50At Arle Bubber's house, a young woman opens the door to Kasim.
06:58She's Morjana, Arle Bubber's new servant.
07:04Kasim asks his brother.
07:08Where's this gold coin from?
07:12Arle Bubber explains.
07:16Later, Kasim visits the cave.
07:22Open sesame.
07:25He says and goes in.
07:35It's my treasure now.
07:39He cries.
07:42The cave door closes behind him.
07:48Open salt!
07:51He says when he wants to leave.
07:55But the cave door doesn't open.
08:00When the thieves arrive, they find Kasim.
08:06They kill him angrily.
08:12Cut his body into four pieces.
08:17Their chief, Arshad, says.
08:20Do more people know about our cave?
08:25This dead body can scare them and stop their visits.
08:34Later, Arle Bubber finds Kasim's body.
08:40He takes it back home.
08:44Perhaps the thieves can find and kill me now.
08:50He says.
08:52Help! What can I do?
08:58Kasim's very ill. Tell everybody.
09:03Morjana says.
09:05The cobbler, Bubber Mustafa, can come and sew up Kasim's body.
09:12Then we can bury it.
09:16So, Morjana blindfolds Bubber Mustafa.
09:23So, Morjana blindfolds Bubber Mustafa.
09:28She brings him to Arle Bubber's house.
09:34He sews up Kasim's body.
09:37Then, Morjana blindfolds him and takes him back home.
09:45After that, the family buries Kasim.
09:50Now the thieves can't find me.
09:54Arle Bubber thinks happily.
09:57Or can they?
10:09Chapter 4 A Thief in Town
10:20Chapter 4 A Thief in Town
10:24The next day, the thieves go back to the cave.
10:30Where's the dead body?
10:33They ask.
10:35A friend of his knows about our treasure cave and has the body.
10:42Ashad, their chief, says.
10:45We must find him at once.
10:49Go into town, Ashad tells Najeed, one of the thieves.
10:56Perhaps you can learn something about the dead man there.
11:05In town, Najeed visits the cobbler's shop.
11:10Bubber Mustafa is speaking to a friend.
11:16So, she puts a blindfold on me and we go to a house.
11:23And I sew up a dead body in four pieces there, he says.
11:32Najeed gives two gold coins to the cobbler.
11:38Take me to the dead man's house, he says.
11:45Bubber Mustafa is clever.
11:48He closes his eyes and remembers his steps.
11:55In the end, they arrive at Arle Bubber's house.
12:01Here we are, the cobbler says.
12:06Najeed puts a white mark on the door.
12:12I must tell Ashad about this, he thinks, and he leaves.
12:20Bubber Mustafa walks slowly back to his shop.
12:27Soon after that, Morjana comes out.
12:33She sees the mark on Arle Bubber's door.
12:39Somebody wants to mark our house, she thinks.
12:45Perhaps it's the thieves. What shall I do?
13:00Chapter 5 The Chief Arrives
13:09Chapter 5 The Chief Arrives
13:18Morjana marks every door in the street.
13:24When Ashad arrives, he can't find Arle Bubber's house.
13:31He visits the cobbler's shop and gives three gold coins to Bubber Mustafa.
13:40The cobbler takes him to Arle Bubber's house.
13:45Ashad looks carefully at it.
13:50He doesn't mark it.
13:53Morjana is watching through the window.
13:59Later, Ashad comes back in different clothes.
14:05He knocks on Arle Bubber's door.
14:12I'm an oil merchant. I'm taking my oil to a town far away.
14:21Can I sleep here tonight? he says.
14:27Arle Bubber is a good man.
14:30Of course, he answers.
14:34Leave your oil jars behind my house and come in.
14:41Ashad leaves the forty jars behind the house.
14:47One jar has oil in, but there are thieves in thirty-nine of the jars.
14:56When I knock on the jars, Ashad tells his men quietly,
15:03come out and kill Arle Bubber.
15:08Then he goes into the house.
15:13Later, Morjana visits the jars.
15:18She needs oil for her lamp.
15:21Is it time? the thieves ask.
15:26No, wait! she answers.
15:30She puts hot oil in the jars, and the thieves die suddenly.
15:39When Ashad comes and knocks on the jars, nobody answers him.
15:53Hey, my men are all dead! he cries.
16:00He leaves very quickly.
16:09Chapter 6 Clever Morjana
16:26Some weeks later, Ashad comes back to town.
16:33Now he's wearing the clothes of a rich gold merchant.
16:40Ashad opens a new shop.
16:44Arle Bubber's son, Murad, has Kasim's old shop across the street.
16:52Ashad and Murad are soon friends.
16:57Father, can my new friend come for dinner?
17:01Murad asks Arle Bubber one day.
17:05Of course, Arle Bubber says.
17:11Arle Bubber doesn't recognize Ashad when he comes to the house for dinner.
17:19But when clever Morjana brings the dinner, she recognizes him at once.
17:28After dinner, Morjana dances for them.
17:33Suddenly, Ashad attacks Arle Bubber with a knife.
17:40Morjana quickly attacks Ashad, and she kills him.
17:50After that, she explains everything.
17:55Morjana, you're the cleverest servant in all Persia, Arle Bubber says.
18:04You must marry Murad and have some treasure too.
18:10Thank you, father, Murad and Morjana say.
18:17The two of them marry, and they move into the next house in the street.
18:25In time, they have many children, and they live there very happily for many years.
18:46Aram for improvement
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