Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales

CONTENTS

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How the Hodja saved Allah	1
Better is the Folly of Woman than the Wisdom of Man	13
The Hanoum and the Unjust Cadi	23
What happened to Hadji, a Merchant of the Bezestan	29
How the Junkman travelled to find Treasure in his Own Yard	35
How Chapkin Halid became Chief Detective	43
How Cobbler Ahmet became the Chief Astrologer	52
The Wise Son of Ali Pasha	65
The Merciful Khan	73
King Kara-Kush of Bithynia	77
The Prayer Rug and the Dishonest Steward	80
The Goose, the Eye, the Daughter, and the Arm	84
The Forty Wise Men	89
How the Priest knew that it would Snow	103
Who was the Thirteenth Son?	107
Paradise sold by the Yard	120
Jew turned Turk	126
The Metamorphosis	130
The Calif Omar	138
Kalaidji Avram of Balata	140
How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered Justice	144
How the Farmer learned to cure his Wife: A Turkish Æsop	148
The Language of Birds	153
The Swallow's Advice	156
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