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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.
He bit his own ear, and now tries to lay the blame upon me." "One cannot bite his own ear," said the first man; "wherefore the lies of this scoundrel are obvious." "Begone, both of you," said the Khoja; "but come back to-morrow, when I will give judgment." When the men had gone, the Khoja withdrew to a quiet place, where he would be undisturbed, that he might try if he could bite his own ear.
On arriving in the royal presence he placed the goose before Timur the King, who, when he had examined the Khoja's gift, was exceedingly annoyed. "This Khoja is deriding me!" said he. And then in a voice of thunder he demanded, "Where is the other leg?" "The geese of our country are one-legged," replied Nasr-ed-Deen, with much gravity.
"No doubt these are Bedawee robbers," thought the Khoja, "who will kill me without remorse for the sake of the Cadi's ferejeh which I wear." And in much alarm he hastened towards a cemetery which he had perceived to be near. Here he quickly stripped off his clothes, and, having hidden them, crept naked into an empty tomb and lay down.
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, 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.
And as he spoke, the Jew put nine hundred and ninety-nine gold pieces into a purse, and dropped the purse down the Khoja's chimney, with the intention of giving him annoyance. The Khoja picked up the purse and opened it. "Allah be praised!" he cried, "for the fulfilment of my desires. Here are the thousand pieces."
The Khoja Peeps Into Futurity. Having need of a stout piece of wood, the Khoja one day decided to cut off a certain branch from a tree that belonged to him, as he perceived that it would serve his purpose.
"It is a young pan," replied the Khoja. "It is the child of your big pan, and therefore belongs to you." The neighbour laughed in his sleeve. "If this Khoja is mad," said he, "a sensible man like myself need not refuse to profit by his whims." So he replied, "It is well, O Khoja! The pan is a very good pan. May its posterity be increased!"
By and by came ten blind men, who were desirous of crossing the river, and they agreed with the Khoja that he should help them across for the payment of one penny each.
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