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Updated: June 14, 2025
Whilst performing the rakoua the man who was behind him perceiving the Cogia's seized hold of them and squeezed them, whereupon the Cogia, seizing hold of those of the man who was before him, squeezed them too; the man, turning round and perceiving that it was Cogia Efendi himself, said, 'Halloa, what are you about? 'You must ask the man behind me, said the Cogia.
The Cogia returning saw that the vest was gone; whereupon taking the pack-saddle from the back of the ass, he put it upon his own shoulders, and giving the ass a cut with his whip, he said, 'You lost my vest, so I take your saddle. One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi, mounting his ass, again set out; on the way, wanting to make water, he again laid his vest upon the ass, and went aside.
No sooner did he enter the door than the master advanced to meet him, and saying, 'Welcome, Cogia Efendi, with all imaginable honour and reverence placed him at the head of the table, and said, 'Please to eat, Lord Cogia. Forthwith the Cogia taking hold of one of the furs of his pelisse, said, 'Welcome, my pelisse, please to eat, my lord. The master looking at the Cogia with great surprise, said, 'What are you about? Whereupon the Cogia replied, 'It is quite evident that all the honour paid is paid to my pelisse, so let it have some food too.
One day Cogia Efendi, on whom God be merciful, went to the city of Conia, and going into a pastry-cook's shop, seized hold of a tart, and saying, 'In the Name of God, began to eat it. The pastry-cook cried out, 'Halloa, fellow, what are you about? and fell to beating him.
The horsemen, on seeing the Cogia run away, followed him to the place where he lay, and said, 'O fellow, why do you lie here? Cogia Efendi, finding nothing else to say, replied, 'I am one of the buried people, but came here to walk.
The drivers, on arriving at the town, having given information of the Cogia's coming, all the people came out to meet him, who, on seeing him quite naked, said, 'O Cogia Efendi, why do you come in this manner? 'From the love I bore you, said the Cogia. 'I was in such a hurry in dressing, that I forgot my clothes. The Cogia had a scalt head.
Nasr Eddin Efendi had an old ox which had exceedingly great horns, and so far apart, that it was possible for a person to sit between them. Every time that the ox drew nigh the Cogia was in the habit of saying to himself, 'How I should like to sit between his horns, and calculating as to the possibility of doing so. One day the ox came and laid himself down before the house.
I will now go to them, and will give the necessary character, so that they will take our daughter, being satisfied with what I say. Quoth the Cogia Efendi, 'No, no, wife, do not open your mouth. I have now learnt various praises fitted for her. I will go and tell them.
Forty or fifty years have passed since then. Must not the kid have become an old goat? One day whilst the Cogia was holding an oration at the Castle of Siouri, he was contradicted by the Soubashi or Superintendent. Shortly after, it happened that the Soubashi died and was buried; whereupon they said, 'Come, Efendi, preach a sermon over him. 'You must find some one else, said the Cogia.
Mill, that the less we think about getting rewarded either on earth or in heaven the better. He was cast in the same heroic mould as Muhamad Efendi, who when led to the stake exclaimed: "Though I have no hope of recompense hereafter, yet the love of truth constraineth me to die in its defence!"
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