the geese have
only one foot. If you disbelieve me, look at the geese by the side of
that fountain.' Now at that time there was a flock of geese by the rim
of the fountain, all of whom were standing on one leg. Timour instantly
ordered that all the drummers should at once play up; the drummers began
to strike with their sticks, and forthwith all the geese stood on both
legs. On Timour saying, 'Don't you see that they have two legs?' the
Cogia replied, 'If you keep up that drumming you yourself will presently
have four.'

Cogia Efendi, now at rest with God, having been made Cadi, two
individuals came before him, one of whom said, 'This fellow nearly bit my
ear off.' The other said, 'Not so: I did not bite it, but he bit his own
ear.' The Cogia said, 'Come again in a little time and I will give you
an answer.' The men went away, and the Cogia, going into a private
place, seized hold of his ear. 'I can't bite it,' said he. Then trying
to rise from the ground, on which he had seated himself, he fell back and
broke a part of his head. Forthwith wrapping a piece of cloth round his
head, he went back and sat in his place. The two men coming and asking
for his decision, the Cogia said, 'No man can bite his own ear; but, if
he tries, may fall down and break his head.'

Once as the Cogia was lying in bed, at midnight a noise was heard in the
street before the door. Said the Cogia to his wife, 'Get up and light a
candle, and I will go and see.' 'You had better stay within,' said his
wife. But the Cogia, without heeding his wife, put the counterpane on
his shoulders and went out. A fellow perceiving him, instantly snatched
the counterpane from off his shoulders and ran away. The Cogia,
shivering with cold, went in again; and when his wife asked him the cause
of the noise, he said, 'It was on account of our counterpane: when they
got that the noise ceased at once.'

One day the Cogia's wife said to him, 'Nurse this child for a little
time, for I have a little business to see after.' The Cogia, taking the
child, sat with him upon his lap. Presently, however, the child p---
upon the Cogia; whereupon the Cogia, getting up, p--- over the child,
from head to foot. His wife coming, said, 'O Cogia, why have you acted
in this manner?' 'I would have --- over him,' said the Cogia, 'if he
had done so over me.'

One day the Cogia's wife, having washed the Cogia's kaftan, hung it upon
a tree to dry; the Cogia going out