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One day the Cogia met a company of young students and said unto them, 'Pray come along with me to our house. So he led them to the door of the house and then said, 'Pray stay here a little, whilst I go in. Then going in he said, 'O wife, pray go and send those people away. Whereupon the wife went and said, 'The Cogia is not come home. Said the students, 'What do you mean by talking so?
Now it happened that a caravan was coming, and the Cogia, by putting out his head, frightened the camels, who jostled each other in great confusion. No sooner did the conductors see the Cogia than, seizing their cudgels, they said to him, 'You! Who are you? The Cogia said to them, 'I am one who is dead. 'And what are you doing here? said the conductors.
The Cogia went home, and a few days after, taking a number of beetroots, set out again in order to carry them to the Bey. As he was going along he met an individual, who said to the Cogia, 'To whom are you carrying those things? 'I am carrying them to the Bey, said the Cogia.
He therefore acquainted his father, Ali Baba, with his wish to invite him in return. Ali Baba with great pleasure took the treat upon himself. "Son," said he, "to-morrow being Friday, which is a day that the shops of such great merchants as Cogia Houssain and yourself are shut, get him to accompany you, and as you pass by my door, call in. I will go and order Morgiana to provide a supper."
One day certain individuals stole from the Cogia a sum of money, whereupon the Cogia said, 'O Lord, what need have you that you give my money to others. So he made a dreadful outcry, and going into the mosque, wept until it was morning, groaning like a ship labouring in the sea.
One night as the Cogia was lying with his wife, he said, 'O wife, if you love me, get up and light a candle, that I may write down a verse which has come into my head. His wife, getting up, lighted the candle, and brought him pen and inkstand.
"Come in, Morgiana," said Ali Baba, "and let Cogia Houssain see what you can do, that he may tell us what he thinks of your performance."
On the other hand, the Governor, on getting up, saw that he had lost his feradje, and going to his officers gave them the following command, 'Whomsoever you find with my feradje upon him, lay hold on and bring him before me. The officials seeing the feradje on the back of the Cogia, made him their prisoner, and brought him before the Governor, who said to him, 'Ho, Cogia, where did you find that feradje? 'As I was taking a walk with Amad, said the Cogia, 'we saw a fellow lying drunk; whereupon Amad twice uncovered his breech, and I, taking off his feradje, went away with it.
Said the Cadi to the Cogia, 'Do you decide upon their dispute. Thereupon the Cogia said to them, 'Is not that street a public way? 'It is, said they. 'Then, said he, 'one half of the perfumery belongs to you two and the other half to the Cadi. One day the Cogia put a yoke upon a calf which he had; the calf ran here and there. Forthwith the Cogia, seizing a stick, fell to banging his ox.
It happened at night, some time after they had lain down, that the light went out. 'O Cogia Efendi, said the guest, 'the taper is gone out. But there is a taper on your right side; pray bring it, and let us light it. 'Surely you must be a fool, said the Cogia. 'How should I know my right side in the dark?
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