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The Cadi asking what they came for, the Jew said, 'This man took from me so many altoons and now he denies having done so. The Cadi looked in the Cogia's face, whereupon the Cogia said, 'My Lord, I asked in prayer of the Most High a thousand altoons, which He gave.
Then the Caliph, convinced that the man was a thief, bade them take him away and hang him, which was done, but not before he had confessed his guilt and the place in which he had hidden Ali Cogia's money. The Caliph ordered the Cadi to learn how to deal out justice from the mouth of a child, and sent the boy home, with a purse containing a hundred pieces of gold as a mark of his favour.
One day a Persian barber was shaving the Cogia's head. At every stroke of his razor he cut his head, and to every place which he cut he applied a piece of cotton. Said the Cogia to the barber, 'My good fellow, you had better sow half of my head with cotton and let me sow the other half with flax.
One day a bull mounted a young cow of the Cogia's. The Cogia seeing what he was about, took a staff in his hand and ran towards him. The bull fled towards the car of a Turcoman, to which seven other oxen were attached. The Cogia keeping the ox in view, ran after him, and with the staff in his hand struck the ox several blows. 'Halloa, man! said the Turcoman.
'I would fain see the cause of this, said the Cogia, and clapped a little of the sal ammoniac to his own . No sooner had he done so than the Cogia's posterior began to swell, and he set off running so quickly that he soon got before the ass, and ran straight home, but not being able to contain himself in the house, he ran about it, and observing his wife, he said, 'O wife, whenever you wish me to get me on, do you stick a little sal ammoniac in my .
One day the Cogia walking along the plain met a heifer, and forthwith laying thievish hands upon it, led it straight to his house, where he slaughtered it and stripped off the skin. The proprietor soon appeared before the Cogia's house, making a loud cry and lamentation.
'What is the matter with you? said his wife; 'why do you cry? Said the Cogia, 'You cry because your mother is gone, but I cry because her daughter is here. One day the Cogia's wife went to the hall of preaching; and, after listening to the sermon, came home.
Said the Cogia's wife, 'O Cogia, why did you drive the matrons away by using such words to them? 'Don't you fear, wife, said the Cogia, 'if they go through the whole country they will not find a girl of this description; so let them go and come back. But to tell you the truth, if I had not praised the cow in this manner, I should have found no purchaser for her.
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.
One day the Cogia's wife said to him, 'Nurse this child for a little time, for I have a little business to see after. The Cogia, taking the child, sat with him upon his lap. Presently, however, the child p upon the Cogia; whereupon the Cogia, getting up, p over the child, from head to foot.
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