Next week Khoja Effendi went again to the barber's.
When his head had been shaved he looked in the mirror as before; but he put nothing on it.
As he rose to depart, the barber stopped him, saying, "Most worshipful Effendi, you have forgotten to pay."
"My head is now half bald," said the Khoja; "will not one penny do for two shavings?"
Tale 12.—The Khoja a Cadi.
The late Khoja Effendi when he filled the office of Cadi had some puzzling cases to decide.
One day two men came before him, and one of them said, "This fellow has bitten my ear, O Cadi!"
"No, no, most learned Cadi!" said the other; "that is not true. He bit his own ear, and now tries to lay the blame upon me."
"One cannot bite his own ear," said the first man; "wherefore the lies of this scoundrel are obvious."