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In a certain year, when the holy month of the fast of Ramadan was approaching, Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen took counsel with himself and resolved not to observe it. "Truly," said he, "there is no necessity that I should fast like the common people. I will rather provide myself with a vase into which I will drop a stone every day.
So they came to the Khoja and said, "The moon is on the wane, Khoja Effendi, and we shall soon have a new one; what will be done with the old moon?" "They will break it up and make stars of it," said the Khoja. Tale 24. The Short Piece of Muslin. One day Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi was tying a new piece of muslin for his turban, when to his annoyance he discovered that it was too short.
Then the Sultan commanded, and they despatched a Tatar in all haste to summon Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi to the presence of the Padisha. When the messenger arrived, he told his errand to the Khoja, who at once rose up, saddled his donkey, took a stick in his hand, and mounted, saying to the Tatar, "Go before me!"
You are indeed most welcome, and if there had been butter or rice, or anything else in our house, you would have had excellent soup out of this very bowl." Tale 34. The Khoja and the Ten Blind Men. Once upon a time Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen, wandering by the banks of a river, came to a certain ford near which he seated himself to rest.
"What was it about, O Khoja?" asked his wife. "It must have been about our quilt," he replied; "for when the man got that he went off quietly enough." Tale 14. The Khoja and the Beggar. One day whilst Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi was in his house, a man knocked at the door. The Khoja looked out from an upper window. "What dost thou want?" said he.
"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.
"I could not pray on my left leg," said the Khoja; "it has not performed the appointed ablutions." Tale 45. "Figs Would Be More Acceptable." Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi had some plums, of which he resolved to make a present to the Bey. He therefore took three of them, and putting them on a fine tray, he carried them into the royal presence, and duly offered them for the Bey's acceptance.
"O, you fellows!" said the Khoja, "biting is easy enough, and you can fall and break your own head into the bargain." Tale 13. The Khoja's Quilt. One night after Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen had retired to rest he was disturbed by a man making a great noise before his door in the street outside.
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."
"O my children!" said the Khoja dryly, "it is good to be provided against everything. I may come upon a road further up." Tale 4. The Khoja and the Three Wise Men. In the days of Effendi Nasr-ed-Deen Khoja there appeared in the world three Sages, who excelled in every science and in all wisdom.
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