One day the Cogia’s wife went to the hall of preaching; and, after listening to the sermon, came home.  Said the Cogia, ’O wife, what did the preacher say?’ ‘He said,’ replied the wife, ’that if any one has a night’s copulation with his lawful wife the Almighty God will build for him a mansion in paradise.’  After they had gone to bed the Cogia said, ‘Come, let us build a house in paradise.’  Thereupon they copulated.  Shortly afterwards the wife said, ’O Cogia, you have built a house for yourself, pray now build a house for me!’ Said the Cogia, ’I could easily build a house for you, but I fear that I should have to build houses for your father and mother, and not only for them, but for all your family and relations, so that the Master Builder above would become angry.  Come, one house must suffice for us two.’

One day the Cogia met a company of young students and said unto them, ‘Pray come along with me to our house.’  So he led them to the door of the house and then said, ‘Pray stay here a little, whilst I go in.’  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.’  The officials seeing the feradje on the back of the Cogia, made him their prisoner, and brought him before the Governor, who said to him, ‘Ho, Cogia, where did you find that feradje?’ ’As I was taking a walk with Amad,’ said the Cogia, ’we saw a fellow lying drunk; whereupon Amad twice uncovered his breech, and I, taking off his feradje, went away with it.  If it is yours, pray take it.’  ’Oh no, it does not belong to me,’ said the Governor.

One day the Cogia having lain down to sleep on the bank of a river imagined himself dead.  An individual coming up said, ’I wonder where one could cross this water.’  Said the Cogia, ’When I was alive I crossed over here, but now I can’t tell you where you should cross.’