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On seeing it, Tamerlank said to himself, 'The Cogia is making game of me, and was very angry, and demanded, 'How happens it that this goose has but one foot? Said the Cogia, 'In our country all the geese have only one foot.
The Cogia accepted the invitation, and mounting his ass, taking the groom along with him, set out, saying, 'Now, Tamerlank, where may you be? When he came to the Emperor, Timour Shah, pointing to a place, bade him sit down. The Cogia, seeing that Timour Shah sat with one foot supported on a cushion, when he sat down, stretched out his own leg, and placed it upon a corner of the cushion.
Forthwith the Cogia let a ; and when Tamerlank said, 'Is not that ill manners? he replied, 'It is not reckoned so in our country. The repast being over, the sherbet was brought; and then the Cogia, getting up, set off on his way home. 'Why did you break wind in the presence of Timour? said the groom. Answered the Cogia, 'When the Imam the assembly breaks up.
The food being brought, they began to eat, and presently Timour, without any cause, sneezed in the Cogia's face. The Cogia, when he saw Tamerlank do this, said, 'My Emperor, is it not ill manners to do so? 'It is not in our country, said Tamerlank.
No sooner did the people see him than they fell to laughing, and the Bey said, 'O Cogia, why did you mount that ox, for it can't run? 'Can't it? said the Cogia. 'I have seen it when it was a calf running so fast that no horse could overtake it. One day Tamerlank invited the Cogia to dine with him.
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