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Updated: June 14, 2025
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 as the Cogia was performing ablution, he found he had not sufficient water. When the hour of prayer came on, he stood like a goose on one foot. 'O Cogia Efendi, said the people, 'why do you do so? 'Because, said the Cogia, 'this foot has not performed ablution. One day a man arriving, became the guest of the Cogia.
Forthwith the Cogia tied the skirts of his robe about his loins and put his sandals in his bosom. 'O Cogia Efendi, said the boys, 'what will you do with your slippers in the tree? Said the Cogia, 'If I find a road when I am above there, I shall have my slippers ready to put on. One day a man coming from the country brought the Cogia a hare.
When he was close by him he said to him, 'Salaam'; and the Cogia saying to him, 'Peace be unto you, said, 'Moolah Efendi, for what have you come? The Moolah replied, 'Can you answer a question which I shall ask? The Cogia said, 'I can. 'Do you know so-and-so? The Cogia said, 'I can do nothing without being paid.
The Cogia, who was not yet sleep, rising in haste, seized the thief by the collar and cried out, 'O wife, be quick and light a candle, for I have caught a thief! hereupon the thief exclaimed humorously, 'O Cogia Efendi, don't be in a hurry; the virtue in that prayer being in me was rather too much for me, and so I tumbled down here.
"Aiwa, efendi, it is sure," he said to Dicky Donovan, who never was surprised at anything that happened.
The Cogia, however, spying somebody going out, followed the thief, who went into his own house. The Cogia following close behind, pushed against him at the door. Whereupon the thief said, 'What do you want, Cogia Efendi? 'What do I want? said the Cogia. 'Why, are we not going to remove hither to- day?
Flour and butter, however, those prime articles in an Eastern kitchen, were to be had before sunset, though not found in the public market; but it was three days before I could procure any coal, the want of which was sensibly felt at this cold season of the year. Hearing that Yahya Efendi, the physician of Tousoun Pasha, the same person who
Cogia Efendi, now at rest with God, having been made Cadi, two individuals came before him, one of whom said, 'This fellow nearly bit my ear off. The other said, 'Not so: I did not bite it, but he bit his own ear. The Cogia said, 'Come again in a little time and I will give you an answer. The men went away, and the Cogia, going into a private place, seized hold of his ear.
One day the Cogia's wife went with the wife of a neighbour to wash at a pool. It happened that the Governor of the country, who was taking a walk, came up and looked at them. Said the wife of the Cogia, 'Pray, man, what are you looking at? 'Who is that woman? said the Governor to some one who was standing by. 'She is the wife of Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi, replied the individual.
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