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Then said the Khoja, "I, who am an old man, could climb that mulberry-tree." Then the boys cried, "O most illustrious Khoja! we beseech of you to climb the tree before our eyes, that we may believe what you say, and also be encouraged to try ourselves." "I will climb it," said the Khoja.
This fire, steadily maintained though it was day after day, had little effect, and the return fire gave good results. It was not easy to invest the city since on the west and north there was no cover for the besiegers, but in Deh Khoja on the east there was ample protection for batteries, and the ground on the south-west was very favourable.
On seeing this the Khoja began to reproach him. "You never thought it would come to this, my fine bird, did you?" said he. "And yet what a wiseacre you are! You know when it's day better than the sun himself, and can crow loud enough for all the world to hear your wisdom." The poor cock made no reply, but waddled on with hoarse cries and flapping wings. "You're a poor prophet!" said the Khoja.
"What makes you get up backwards, Khoja?" said his friends. "It is not I who am in the wrong," said the Khoja, "but the horse that is left-handed." Tale 42. The Khoja on the Bey's Horse. On a certain occasion Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen went to see the Bey, and the Bey invited him to go out hunting.
When he perceived that the dog was about to attack him, and that he would have the worst of it, he lowered his stick. "Pray don't disturb yourself," said he; "I give in." Tale 37. The Khoja and the Mullas. Once upon a time the Khoja, riding on his donkey, was proceeding to a certain place to give public instruction, when he was followed by several law-students, who walked behind him.
"My head is now half bald," said the Khoja; "will not one penny do for two shavings?" Tale 12. The Khoja a Cadi. The late Khoja Effendi when he filled the office of Cadi had some puzzling cases to decide. One day two men came before him, and one of them said, "This fellow has bitten my ear, O Cadi!" "No, no, most learned Cadi!" said the other; "that is not true.
Thereupon he kicked off his slippers as the children had anticipated; and tucking his skirts into his girdle, he prepared to climb. But whilst they were waiting to steal his slippers, the Khoja put them into his pocket. "Effendi Khoja," said the children, "wherefore do you not leave your slippers on the ground? What will you do with slippers up in the mulberry-tree?"
"If I say as much as this," thought the Khoja, "they will call me a fool. Even half would be more than could be believed." So he went back to the Bazaar and said, "It is the full forty-fifth of the month, quite that." "O Khoja!" the neighbours replied, "there are only thirty days in a complete month, and do you tell us to-day is the forty-fifth?"
Well pleased, the beggar followed him, but when they reached the upper room the Khoja turned round and dismissed him, saying, "Heaven supply your necessities. I have nothing for you." "O Effendi!" said the beggar, "why did you not tell me this whilst I was below?" "O Beggar!" replied the Khoja, "why did you call me down when I was up-stairs?" Tale 15. The Khoja Turned Nightingale.
The other two Sages followed his example, and their wisdom was for many years the light of the court of the Sultan Ala-ed-Deen. Moreover, they became disciples of the Khoja. Tale 5. The Khoja's Donkey. One day there came a man to the house of the Khoja to ask him for the loan of his donkey. "The donkey is not at home," replied the Khoja, who was unwilling to lend his beast.
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