ALADDIN O'BRIEN

BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS





BOOK I

"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee.
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child"--





ALADDIN O'BRIEN

I


It was on the way home from Sunday-school that Aladdin had
enticed Margaret to the forbidden river. She was not sure
that he knew how to row, for he was prone to exaggerate his