way he fell into an old tomb, and making believe as if he were dead, he
said, 'Let me see Mounkhir. Is Nekir coming?' As he lay there stretched
at his length, it appeared to him that he heard from afar the voice of a
bell. 'It is the noise of the Day of Judgment,' said the Cogia, and
forthwith sprang out of the tomb. Now it happened that a caravan was
coming, and the Cogia, by putting out his head, frightened the camels,
who jostled each other in great confusion. No sooner did the conductors
see the Cogia than, seizing their cudgels, they said to him, 'You! Who
are you?' The Cogia said to them, 'I am one who is dead.' 'And what are
you doing here?' said the conductors. 'I merely came to take a walk,'
said the Cogia. 'We will now make you take a pretty walk,' said the
carriers, and instantly began belabouring him with their cudgels. The
Cogia, with tears streaming from his eyes, ran home. 'Where have you
been?' said his wife. 'I have been dead,' said the Cogia, 'and in the
tomb.' 'And what is there in the other world?' said his wife. 'Nothing,'
said the Cogia, 'provided you don't frighten carriers' camels.'

Once upon a time the Cogia was sent into Curdistan along with the
Ambassador. Whilst he was there the Curdish Beys invited the Cogia to a
feast which they had made in honour of him. The Cogia, putting on a
pelisse, went to the place of festival. During the entertainment he
chanced to belch. 'You do wrong to belch, Cogia Moolah Efendi,' said the
Beys. 'I am amongst Curds,' said the Cogia. 'How should they know a
Turkish belching, even though they hear it?'

One day the Cogia went with Cheragh Ahmed to the den of a wolf, in order
to see the cubs. Said the Cogia to Ahmed: 'Do you go in.' Ahmed did so.
The old wolf was abroad, but presently returning, tried to get into the
cave to its young. When it was about half-way in the Cogia seized hard
hold of it by the tail. The wolf in its struggles cast a quantity of