One day, he got¹ out his seven black stones. These stones were magic², and when he put them in water, the water could³ tell him many things. Soon, he could see the magic lamp in the water, but it was⁴ not under the white stone in the Arabian hills. It was in a palace⁵.

‘ How did⁶ this happen? ' said⁷ Abanazar. ‘ I must go back to Arabia and find this palace. '

After some months he arrived again in the city in Arabia. Soon, he saw⁸ the new palace and asked a man in the street: ‘ Who lives there? '

‘ That's Aladdin's palace, ' was the answer. ‘ Princess⁹ Badr-al-Budur's husband¹⁰, a good man-and very rich! '

Abanazar said nothing and walked away. ‘ That lazy¹¹, good-for-nothing boy! ' he thought¹² angrily. ‘ So he has the magic lamp, and he knows about the jinnee! How can I get the lamp back? '

For the next week Abanazar watched Aladdin's palace. One day Aladdin and his friends left the palace to go hunting¹³ in the hills.

‘ Good, ' Abanazar thought, ‘ now I can get the lamp. '

After Aladdin left, Princess Badr-al-Budur went into the palace gardens. She sat¹⁴ under a tree and looked at the flowers. Then she heard a noise in the street, and called her slave-girl, Fawzia.

‘ What's the matter? Who's making that noise? ' she asked. ‘ Fawzia, go and look in the street. '

When Fawzia came¹⁵ back, she had¹⁶ a smile on her face.

‘ Mistress¹⁷, ' she said, ‘ the children in the street are laughing at an old man. He's selling lamps, but not for money. '“ New lamps for old, ” he cries. “ Give me an old lamp, and you can have a new lamp. ” So everybody's getting new lamps. '

Badral-Budur laughed. ‘ Do we have an old lamp for him? Yes-my husband's old lamp! Go and get it. ' The Princess knew nothing about the lamp or its magic.

Fawzia went into the palace and came back with Aladdin's lamp. ‘ Here it is, mistress, ' she said.

‘ Go and give it to the old man. ' The Princess laughed. ‘ Aladdin can have a nice new lamp! '

一天，他拿出七块黑色的石头，这些石头是有魔力的。他把石头放进水里，可以从水中看到很多东西。很快，他就看到了神灯，但不是在阿拉伯山里的白色巨石下面，而是在一座宫殿里。

“怎么会这样呢？”阿巴那扎尔自言自语道，“我必须回到阿拉伯，找到这座宫殿。”

几个月之后，他又回到了这个城市。他很快就找到了那座新的宫殿，他问街旁的一个人：“谁住在这座宫殿里呢？”

“那是阿拉丁的宫殿，”那人答道，“白狄伦?布杜鲁公主的丈夫，一个非常好的人，而且很富有！”

阿巴那扎尔一言不发地走开了。“那个懒惰的废物！”他忿忿地想道，“他得到了神灯，他知道了灯神的秘密！我怎样才能把灯夺回来呢？”

接下来的一周阿巴那扎尔都在阿拉丁的宫殿周围观察。一天，阿拉丁离开宫殿和他的朋友们到山里打猎去了。

“好啊，”阿巴那扎尔想，“这下我能够得到那盏灯了。”

阿拉丁走后，白狄伦?布杜鲁公主就去了宫殿的花园里。她坐在一棵树下观赏着鲜花。随后她听到街上传来一阵吵闹声，就把她的婢女法齐娅叫了过来。

“怎么回事啊？是谁在外面大喊大叫的？”她问道，“法齐娅，到街上去看看。”

法齐娅回来后，脸上挂着笑容。

“夫人，”她说，“是一群孩子在笑一个老头儿。他在卖油灯，但不要钱。‘新灯换旧灯。'他这样喊道，‘给我一个旧灯，你就可以拿走一盏新灯。'所以很多人都换到了新灯。”

白狄伦?布杜鲁公主也大笑了起来。“我们有旧灯换给他吗？对了－－我丈夫的旧灯！快去把它拿来。”公主对神灯和它的魔力一无所知。

法齐娅回到宫里把阿拉丁的旧灯拿了出来。“拿来了，夫人。”她说。

“去把它拿给那个老头儿，”公主笑道，“阿拉丁可以有一盏漂亮的新灯了！”