"Your donkey sure is looking scrawny these days," said Nasruddin's neighbor. "Maybe you need to give him some more food."
The donkey, as if he understood what the neighbor was saying, wriggled his ears in agreement.
Nasruddin huffed indignantly. "I'll have you know that the donkey's ration is two bushels of barley every day. Two full bushels!"
"Well, that's strange," said the neighbor. "That's very strange. With a ration like that, your donkey shouldn't be looking so thin. I wonder what the problem is."
"The problem," explained Nasruddin, "is that I now owe him about a month's worth of barley."
Inspired by: Classic Tales of Mulla Nasreddin retold by Houman Farzad, and translated by Diane Wilcox
Notes: This story is on p. 54 of the book.
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