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But as it happened, when the man heard the noise he was afraid of being caught, and, throwing the pelisse back on to the donkey, he ran away as hard as he could. Tale 44. The Khoja's Left Leg. During one very hot season there was a scarcity of water in the city.
"Broken knees, sore ribs, aching bones, long marches, and short meals," said the Khoja. Then the man looked foolish, and sneaked away without reply. But the Khoja went back to his pipe. Tale 41. The Khoja's Horse. Once upon a time the Khoja was travelling in company with a caravan, when they halted for the night at a certain place, and all the horses were tied up together.
"I am desperate," replied the Khoja; "I am determined to kill somebody's horse, so let every one look to his own." Laughing at the Khoja's folly, each man untied his own horse as quickly as possible, and took it away. Then the Khoja knew that the one left was his own. He at once proceeded to mount, but putting his right foot into the stirrup, he came round with his face to the tail.
"I sell ladders," replied the Khoja, running hastily back to the wall, and throwing the ladder once more upon his shoulders. "Come, come!" said the gardener, "that answer will not do. This is not a place for selling ladders." "You must be very ignorant," replied the Khoja gravely, "if you do not know that ladders are salable anywhere." Tale 18. The Cat and the Khoja's Supper.
Without doubt it is an oversight, and he who sent these will send the missing one also." Saying which, the Khoja put the money into his sash and sat down to smoke. The Jew now became fidgety, and he hastened down to the Khoja's door, at which he knocked, and entering, said, "Good-day, Khoja Effendi. May I ask you to be good enough to restore to me my nine hundred and ninety-nine gold pieces?"
"I don't deal in the moon." Tale 22. The Khoja's Dream. One night when he was asleep the Khoja dreamed that he found nine pieces of money. "Bountiful heaven!" said he, "let me have been mistaken. I will count them afresh. Let there be ten!" And when he counted them there were ten. Then he said, "Let there be nineteen!" And vehemently contending for nineteen he awoke.
And he took the Khoja's pan as well as his own, and the Khoja departed. After a few days the Khoja came again to borrow the big pan, which his neighbour lent him willingly, saying to himself, "Doubtless something else will come back in it." But after he had waited two three four and five days, and the Khoja did not return it, the neighbour betook himself to the Khoja's house and asked for his pan.
The Students and the Khoja's Wife. Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi met a party of students who were walking together. "Allow me to join you, worthy Effendis," said he, "and if it is agreeable to you we will proceed to my house."
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