One day the ox came and laid himself
down before the house. Cries the Cogia, 'Now is my time!' and mounting,
he took his seat betwixt the ox's two horns. Presently, however, the ox,
rising upon his legs, flung the Cogia upon the ground, where he lay for
some time quite senseless. His wife coming and seeing him lying
motionless, began to lament. After some time, the Cogia, recovering a
little, on seeing his wife weeping by his side, exclaimed, 'O wife, do
not weep, I have suffered a great deal, but I have had my desire.'
One day a thief got into the Cogia's house. Cries his wife, 'O Cogia,
there is a thief in the house.' 'Don't make any disturbance,' says the
Cogia. 'I wish to God that he may find something, so that I may take it
from him.'
One day the Cogia's wife said to him, 'Go and lie down yonder, a little
way off.' The Cogia, getting up, forthwith took his shoes in his hand,
and walked during two days; at the end of which, meeting a man, he said,
'Go and ask my wife whether I have gone far enough, or must go yet
farther.'
One night as the Cogia was lying with his wife, he said, 'O wife, if you
love me, get up and light a candle, that I may write down a verse which
has come into my head.' His wife, getting up, lighted the candle, and
brought him pen and inkstand.
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