informed that the jewelers and goldsmiths had arrived; upon which he returned to the hall, and showed them the unfinished window.
“I sent for you,” said he, “to adorn this window in as great perfection as the rest. Examine them well, and make all the dispatch you can.”
The jewelers and goldsmiths examined the three-and-twenty windows with great attention, and after they had consulted together, to know what each could furnish, they returned, and presented themselves before the sultan, whose principal jeweler, undertaking to speak for the rest, said, “Sire, we are all willing to exert our utmost care and industry to obey you; but among us all we cannot furnish jewels enough for so great a work.” “I have more than are necessary,” said the sultan; “come to my palace, and you shall choose what may answer your purpose.”
When the sultan returned to his palace, he ordered his jewels to be brought out, and the jewelers took a great quantity, particularly those Aladdin had made him a present of, which they soon used, without making any great advance in their work. They came again several times for more, and in a month’s time had not finished half their work. In short, they used all the jewels the sultan had, and borrowed of the vizier, yet the work was not half done.
Aladdin, who knew that all the sultan’s endeavors to make this window like the rest were in vain, sent for the jewelers
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