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Updated: June 14, 2025
One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi having mounted the chair in a city, said, 'O Mussulmen, the air above this city is just like the air above my city. The congregation said, 'O Cogia Efendi, how do you know that? Said the Cogia, 'Because I have seen as many stars above this city as I saw above Belgrade.
Nasr Eddin Efendi going one day into a city, found the doctors of the law eating and drinking; no sooner did they see the Cogia than they showed him great honour, and brought him food.
Cogia Efendi, seeing what they were about, suddenly began to make a great noise and crow like a cock. 'What are you about, Cogia Efendi? said the boys. 'Why, said he, 'is not a cock necessary where there are so many hens? One day the Cogia, putting on black clothes, went out.
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?
Once as Nasr Eddin Efendi was walking in Belgrade he cried out, 'O Lord! give me a thousand altoons, but if one be wanting I will not take the rest. Now these words of the Cogia were heard by a neighbour of his, a Jew, who, in order to try the Cogia, put nine hundred and ninety-nine altoons into a purse and flung it down the Cogia's chimney.
'Hallo, Cogia, said the man, 'what are you about? 'I was merely playing the kite out of fun, said the Cogia. A person coming to Nasr Eddin Efendi, requested him to let him have a rope. The Cogia went into his house, and coming out again, said, 'The rope is striking ten. 'How can a rope strike ten? said the man.
Nasr Eddin Efendi, now with God, had a sum of money. One day, when all was quiet in the house, he dug in the earth and buried it; then going to the door he looked out and said, 'I'll suppose myself a thief, and that I find this, and forthwith take it away and bury it in another place, and my heart is no more troubled about it. Thus saying, he came and took up his treasure.
Yet round the brown fez was a green cloth, which may only be worn by one who has been a pilgrimage to Mecca. "Nehar-ak koom said God be with you!" said Dicky in Arabic. "Nehar-ak said, efendi God prosper thy greatness!" was the reply, in a voice as full as a man's, but as soft as a woman's an unusual thing in an Arab. "Have you travelled far?" asked Dicky.
One day Cogia Efendi went to a bridal festival. The master of the feast observing his old and wretched garments, paid him no consideration whatever. The Cogia saw that he had no chance of notice; so going out he hurried to his house, and putting on a splendid pelisse, returned to the place of festival.
Cogia Efendi, every time he returned to his house, was in the habit of bringing a piece of liver, which his wife always gave to a common woman, placing before the Cogia leavened patties to eat when he came home in the evening. One day the Cogia said, 'O wife, every day I bring home a liver: where do they all go to? 'The cat runs away with all of them, replied the wife.
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