Whereupon the Cogia said, 'O wife,
in this house either let Friday night keep the reckoning, or let me.'
One day the Cogia's wife went with the wife of a neighbour to wash at a
pool. It happened that the Governor of the country, who was taking a
walk, came up and looked at them. Said the wife of the Cogia, 'Pray,
man, what are you looking at?' 'Who is that woman?' said the Governor to
some one who was standing by. 'She is the wife of Cogia Nasr Eddin
Efendi,' replied the individual. On the following day the Governor,
sending for the Cogia, said to him, 'Is such and such a woman your wife?'
'Yes,' said the Cogia, 'she is my wife.' Said the Governor, 'Go and
bring her to me.' 'What do you want with her?' said the Cogia. 'I have
a question to ask her,' said the Governor. 'Do you only tell me the
question,' said the Cogia, 'and I will go and put it to her.'
One day some people said to the Cogia's son, 'What is padligean?' 'It is
a little deaf thing which walks without opening its eyes,' said the
child. 'It did not know that of itself: I taught it,' said the Cogia.
One day a chariot departed for the Castle of Siouri. The Cogia also set
off for that place, running quite naked. The drivers, on arriving at the
town, having given information of the Cogia's coming, all the people came
out to meet him, who, on seeing him quite naked, said, 'O Cogia Efendi,
why do you come in this manner?' 'From the love I bore you,' said the
Cogia.
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