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Updated: June 29, 2025
The King could not help laughing, but he called to his drummers and said, "March towards yonder fountain, and lay your drumsticks well about your drums." The drummers forthwith began to drum, and they rattled away so heartily that all the geese put down their legs and ran off in alarm. "O Khoja!" cried Timur, "how is this? All your geese have become two-legged!"
On a certain day about this time he mounted into the pulpit, and looking down on the congregation assembled to listen to him, he stretched forth his hands and cried, "Ah, Believers! what shall I say to you?" And the men beat upon their breasts, and replied with one voice, "We do not know, most holy Khoja! we do not know."
Now the Khoja had a little daughter, and it came to pass that one day the child, having observed the pebbles in the vase, went out and gathered a handful and added them to the rest. But her father was not aware of it.
"O most courteous entertainers!" replied the Khoja, "since the pelisse has commanded such respect at your hands, is it not proper that it should also partake of the food?" Tale 3. The Khoja's Slippers. One day, when the idle boys of the neighbourhood were gathered together and ready for mischief, they perceived the Khoja approaching. "Here comes this mad Khoja!" they said.
The Ettrick Shepherd's well-known story of the two Highlanders and the wild boar has its exact parallel in the Turkish jest-book, as follows: One day the Khoja went with his friend Sheragh Ahmed to the den of a wolf, in order to take the cubs. Said the Khoja to Ahmed, "Do you go in, and I will watch without;" and Ahmed went in, to take the cubs in the absence of the old wolf.
But he said nothing, and having paid his penny, took his departure as usual. Next week Khoja Effendi went again to the barber's. When his head had been shaved he looked in the mirror as before; but he put nothing on it. As he rose to depart, the barber stopped him, saying, "Most worshipful Effendi, you have forgotten to pay."
He wants it more than we do, poor fellow! Our clothes are not half so black as what he has got on." Tale 10. The Khoja and the Wolves. "Wife!" said the Khoja one day, "how do you know when a man is dead?" "When his hands and feet have become cold, Khoja," replied the good woman, "I know that it is all over then. The man is dead." Some time afterwards the Khoja went to the mountain to cut wood.
"It is not the voice of a native songster," said the Khoja demurely, "but the foreign nightingale sings so." Tale 16. The Khoja's Donkey and The Woollen Pelisse. One day the Khoja mounted his donkey to ride to the garden, but on the way there he had business which obliged him to dismount and leave the donkey for a short time.
Quoth the Khoja, "You must surely be a fool to think that I should know my right hand in the dark." And this: A thief having stolen a piece of salted cheese from the Khoja, he ran immediately and seated himself on the border of a fountain. Said the people to him, "O Khoja, what have you come here to look for in such a hurry?"
"It cannot be my ferejeh, of course," said the Cadi hastily; "though there is a similarity which at first deceived me." "Then I will keep it till the man claims it," said the Khoja. And he did so. Tale 20. The Two Pans. One day the Khoja borrowed a big pan of his next-door neighbour. When he had done with it he put a smaller pan inside it, and carried it back. "What is this?" said the neighbour.
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