' Then
going in he said, 'O wife, pray go and send those people away.' Whereupon
the wife went and said, 'The Cogia is not come home.' Said the students,
'What do you mean by talking so? The Cogia came hither in our company.'
'He did not come,' said the wife. 'But he did,' said the students, and
made a great outcry. The Cogia hearing a noise from above, thrust his
head out of the window, exclaiming, 'Holloa, my men: what is all this
dispute for? You must know that this house has two doors. No sooner did
I come in by one than I left the house by the other.'
One day the son of the Cogia said, 'O Father, I know that I was begotten
by you.' His mother becoming very angry, said, 'What nonsense is the
brat talking that he calls himself the son of a whore?' Said the Cogia,
'O wife, don't be angry, he is a wise son if he knows what he says he
does.'
Once on a time there was a drunken Governor of Siouri Castle. It
happened one day that he lay in a state of drunkenness in the garden; and
the Cogia taking a walk in the garden with Amad, came up and found him
lying drunk and insensible. The Cogia instantly stripped him of his
feradje or upper coat, and putting it on his own back, walked away. On
the other hand, the Governor, on getting up, saw that he had lost his
feradje, and going to his officers gave them the following command,
'Whomsoever you find with my feradje upon him, lay hold on and bring him
before me.
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