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 saw, as he supposed, a man standing in
the tree with his arms stretched out. Says the Cogia to his wife, 'O
wife, go and fetch me my bow and arrow.' His wife fetched and brought
them to him; the Cogia taking an arrow, shot it and pierced the kaftan
and stretched it on the ground; then returning, he made fast his door and
lay down to sleep. Going out in the morning he saw that what he had shot
was his own kaftan; thereupon, sitting down, he cried aloud, 'O God, be
thanked; if I had been in it I should have certainly been killed.'

One day the Cogia, going to the College, mounted into the car, in the
rear of the Moolahs. Said the Moolahs, 'O Cogia, why did you mount
backwards?' 'If I got in straightways,' said the Cogia, 'you would be at
my back. If you went before me your backs would be in my face, therefore
I mounted in this manner.'