Eighteen more anecdotes of the Hodja. The runaway slave, it turns out, has harmed only himself — for his master would have set him free; an oath over a chess game is broken, but then, the Hodja married in jest as well; a kite's well-known secret can be settled only by someone who has been a kite for two years; a bride's procession draws a sigh over how many procurers one land can hold; three pilgrims free their servants for merit, and the third — who has none — will not be outdone; and a boy at the family table holds a little fish to his ear, and innocently repeats all it tells him about the bigger fish hidden under the bed. A midnight knock is answered, at last, with an "Inshallah"; a length of red silk is carried home in outstretched arms, lest the measure be lost; a sore cannot decide whether it is black or white; and when the search goes badly, the Hodja looks for what he lost where the light is better.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
From Der Hodscha Nasreddin by Albert Wesselski (1911), public domain; told in a fresh in-house rendering.
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Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:05 He Harmed Only Himself
0:40 In Jest, Like My Marriage
1:30 Ask a Two-Year Kite
1:48 So Many Procurers
2:25 He Would Not Be Outdone
3:35 Ask the Bigger Fish
4:33 It Is I, Inshallah
5:25 Lest I Lose My Measure
5:53 Black One Day, White the Next
6:26 The Man in the Molasses
7:00 He Never Had a Ghost
7:26 You Ate Donkey Today
9:08 A Kiss Will Balance It
9:34 Go Hide Your Shame
10:04 Am I Her Brother?
10:53 I Shall Fetch a Ladder
11:25 Where the Light Is
11:56 Where Will the Mud Stick?
