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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.
After a while the friends returned and found their robes burnt to ashes. "O Khoja!" they cried, "who has burnt our clothes? Alas, alas! what shall we do?" "Never mind," said the Khoja, "to-morrow the world comes to an end, you know. You would not have wanted them for long." Tale 36. The Dog on the Tomb. One day the Khoja was wandering among the tombs.
When the Khoja came to his senses he tore his clothes, and cried in great rage and indignation, "O Muslims! you do not know what care I have taken of this camel, and this is how I am rewarded! Will no one kill it for me? It has done its best to kill me." But his friends said, "Be appeased, most worthy Effendi, we could not kill your valuable camel."
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.
"With the greatest possible pleasure," replied all the students, and the Khoja, beguiling the way with smart sayings and agreeable compliments, led them to the door of his dwelling.
But she came back presently, and had got half-way into her den when the Khoja seized hold of her tail. The wolf in her struggles cast up a great dust into the eyes of Ahmed, who called out to the Khoja, "Hallo! what does all this dust mean?" The Khoja replied, "If the wolf's tail breaks, you will soon know what the dust means!"
The revolution in the metropolitan province was complicated by the presence of different races, just as it had been in Kashgaria by the pretensions of the Khoja family.
One day the Khoja's wife, having washed her husband's gown, hung it out in the garden to dry. Now in the dusk of the evening the Khoja repaired to his garden, where he saw, as he believed, a thief standing with outstretched arms. "O you rascal!" he cried, "is it you who steal my fruit? But you shall do so no more."
"One penny less to pay than you expected," said the Khoja. Tale 35. The End of the World. Now Khoja Nasr-ed-Deen Effendi had a lamb which he brought up and fattened with much care. Some of his friends were very desirous to get hold of this lamb and make a feast of it. So they came to the Khoja and begged him earnestly to give up the lamb for a feast, but the Khoja would not consent.
Perceiving this, the Khoja dismounted, and got up again with his face to the donkey's tail. "O Khoja!" cried the Mullas, "why do you ride backwards?" "It is the only way in which we can show each other proper civility," replied the Khoja; "for when I ride in the usual fashion, if you walk behind me I turn my back on you, and if you walk before me you turn your backs on me." Tale 38.
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