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Nasr Eddin Efendi, now with God, had a sum of money. One day, when all
was quiet in the house, he dug in the earth and buried it; then going to
the door he looked out and said, 'I'll suppose myself a thief, and that I
find this, and forthwith take it away and bury it in another place, and
my heart is no more troubled about it.' Thus saying, he came and took up
his treasure. Now before the house there was a height, and the Cogia
going to the garden of the house, cut a pole, and putting the money in a
sack, tied the sack to the top of the pole, and bringing the pole, stuck
it up on the top of the height; then going down he looked upwards and
said, 'Unless a man is a bird he cannot fly up to that, I have surely
chosen a good place,' and having said this, he went away. Now it
happened that a thief saw all that Cogia did, and no sooner was the Cogia
gone, than he climbed up the height and took down the money, and putting
upon the top of the pole a quantity of bullock's dung, he stuck up the
pole again and went his way. Some time afterwards the Cogia being in
need of money, came to the foot of the pole and saw that all the money
was gone, and that a quantity of bullock's dung was on the pole. Said
he, 'I said that no man could mount this pole and take away the money,
but how bullock's dung should get to the top of the pole is a very
strange matter indeed.
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