Some of the figs striking the Cogia’s head, he forthwith began to cry out, ’Thank God, thank God!’ ‘How is this, Cogia?’ said they.  ’Why do you thank God?’ ‘I was bringing a great quantity of beetroots,’ said the Cogia, ’but meeting an individual on the road, he advised me to bring these instead.  Now if I had brought beetroots, my head would have been broken.’

The Cogia going on another day to visit the Bey, the Bey took him out a-hunting, but mounted him on a good-for-nothing horse.  As they were hunting, it began to rain; every one escaped by means of his horse, but the good-for-nothing horse would scarcely move.  The Cogia forthwith stripping himself naked, took his garments and sat down upon them.  No sooner was the rain over, than he got up, and having dressed himself, he went to the Bey.  Said the Bey, ‘It is a wonder you escaped a wetting.’  Said the Cogia, ’I was mounted on a horse that was a great goer, he flew away with me so fast that I escaped the rain.’  The Bey believed every word that he said.  On another day the Bey again went out a-hunting, but he now rode that same horse himself, whilst the Cogia was mounted on another; now it so pleased God that it again began to rain, every one escaped as fast as he could, but the Bey on the good-for-nothing horse was left behind, and at last reached home, creeping along like a crane.  He was very much incensed at what the Cogia had told him, and the next day addressed him in this manner:  ’Was it fit and proper that you should tell me the lie you did, and cause me to be wet through by the rain which God sent?’ Said the Cogia, ’Why are you angry with me?  Why had you not sense enough to strip off your clothes as I did, and sit upon them, and when the rain was over, dress yourself and come here?’

One day the Bey sent this message to the Cogia, ’Come, I intend to play the jerreed with you, for I wish to have a little jerreed playing.’  Now the Cogia had an old ox, which, saddling immediately, he mounted, and rode to the place where they played at the jerreed.  No sooner did the people see him than they fell to laughing, and the Bey said, ’O Cogia, why did you mount that ox, for it can’t run?’ ‘Can’t it?’ said the Cogia.  ’I have seen it when it was a calf running so fast that no horse could overtake it.’

One day Tamerlank invited the Cogia to dine with him.  The Cogia accepted the invitation, and mounting his ass, taking the groom along with him, set out, saying, ‘Now, Tamerlank, where may you be?’ When he came to the Emperor, Timour Shah, pointing to a place, bade him sit down.  The Cogia, seeing that Timour Shah sat with one foot supported on a cushion, when he sat down, stretched out his own leg, and placed it upon a corner of the cushion.  Timour Shah being very much offended that the Cogia stretched out his leg as he did, said to himself, ’If I do so I have an excuse, and I am also a king’; and then said to the Cogia, ’When you mount your