The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-01-16
The JoviaH Judge.

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conciliate the loser with an irresistible
jest. Even among a grave people like
the Turks this love of humor often
overpowers complaint. There is story
in the East OF pasha who had received
present of two fat geese. These sue
culent birds were very scare at the
time, and the great man called feast
OF his intimates, where roast goose,
stuffed with pistachios, was to form
the central dish. But rival magnate
who greatly wanted goose for dinner,
had offered the cook 500 piastres tor a
bird, wlereupon that too venal officer
repaired to the Cadi and said : &C If ]
give your worship goose will you see
me safe, supposlng any one complains
about the other one ?'' The ma asistrate
winked and took his bird-the other
also disappeared-and a: the banquet.
when the eagerly expected dish should
have been produced there was an awful
disappointment The cook being sum-
moned protested with many protesta-
tions that the geese had flown away"
+" Recover them - the inturiated pasha
cried, /" or will have thee before our
/ Cadi for the bastinade." The guilty
cook rushed madly along the high road
wondering what to do, when he was
met by a donkey driver, in the name
of Allah." to help him lift his beast,
which had fallen. He forthwith pulled
at the donkey's tail with such thought
| less fury that it came off III his hand.
aud the cook rushed on more franticaiy
than ever, pursued by the cries and
curses of the driver. A little further
on he ran in his blundering haste
against Christian, and knocked the
mau's pipe-stick into his eye, destroying
it. Yet little further, still wildly
hurrying, he came round the corner full
tilt against a very fat and ugly Bulgar-
ian matron, who, being in an interest
ing condition, WAS so upset that she
then and there suffered miscarriage.
Being chased by the husband and
some Zaptleths, the miserable man ran
up the steps of minaret, aud when
the muezzin would have seized him,
leaped down TO the earth in his desper-
alton, from the first platform, killing "a
Greek who Glanced to be sitting with
his brother below.
Such a situation as that presented in
the above narrative, it must be confess
ed, was embarrassing to the humor and
resources of the Turkish Judge. To
the original sin of the goose were now
added four separate misdemeanors, and
the spectacle presented shortly after
ward before the Cadi was one great
hubub though the prisoner exhibited
a strange confidence, which proved not
unfcunded. First came the l'asha,
wEo told how tie sinful cook had pre-
tended that geese plucked and drawn,
could fly away. "DoSt tho4 then doubt
BROTHER" said the Judge, the power
of Allah to call the dead to life? Let us
not limit the diYine might by our foolish
disbelief may have been SO Go in
peace" Next the donkey man held
up the left tail of his beast and cried for
justice but the Cadi said, s' Give him
the donkey, my son, to feed and use till
the tail has grown again then he shall
lowed, pointing to his missing orb, and
clamored for punishment. :" Il is writ
ten,' said the Judge, that one eye of
believer equals two of an infi,lcl. Do
thou, therefore, suffer me to put out
thine other eye, and then it will be
right that should order restitution hy
removing ore from this abominable
COOK The Christian departed, and
was succeeded by the injured husband,
~ no told his woes. " BY the Proph-
cts beard" qnoth the Cadi. +" see no
way in this save that thou shouldst
divorce the lady and marry her to the
cook. Afterward, if it be Heavens
will that she come again into the same
state, let him send her back to thee,
and all viii be WELL" This suitor also
dec9inel to proceed to execution, and
there was only the Greek, who vocifer-
Grated for retaliation on the slayer OF
his brother. g Inshallah !'' said the
Judge, "truly, hurry is of the DEVIL
as the wise say the cook shall suffer
for il this is but just. Get thou there
fore on the top of tie minaret ard
jump down on the offender, whom
shall place below, and it shall be that
if thou slayest him none shall COM
plain" Herenpon the Greek also left
the Court like the Others, amid ACCLAIM
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