The Turkish Jester - or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi

The Turkish Jester, by Nasreddin Hoca
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Title: The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi
Author: Nasreddin Hoca
Release Date: July 8, 2005 Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TURKISH JESTER***
Transcribed from the 1924 Norwich edition, Vol. 16, Miscellanies, by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE TURKISH JESTER; OR, THE PLEASANTRIES
OF COGIA NASR EDDIN EFENDI.
TRANSLATED FROM THE TURKISH BY GEORGE BORROW. IPSWICH: W. WEBBER, DIAL LANE, 1884.
p. 253
THE PLEASANTRIES OF COGIA NASR EDDIN EFENDI
‘A breeze, which pleasant stories bears, Relicks of long departed years.’ The story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, ‘O believers, do ye not know what I am going to say to you?’ The congregation answered, ‘Dear Cogia Efendi, we do not know.’ Then said the Cogia, ‘What shall I say to you until you do know?’ One day the Cogia ascending again into the pulpit, said, ‘O Mussulmen, do ye not know what I am going to say to you?’ ‘We do ...