The Sloth
Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful, intelligent, kind, and hardworking girl. When she turned eighteen, her parents married her off to a place far from her hometown.Her husband, however, turned out to be the laziest man anyone had ever seen. He was even too lazy to eat. If his wife didn’t feed him, he would go hungry all day.
All the household chores fell on the wife. She worked in the fields, did the laundry, cooked meals, cleaned the house, took care of the children, chopped firewood, and carried water. Meanwhile, her husband spent the whole day dozing in bed.
One day, the wife decided to take the children to visit her elderly mother. Her husband stayed home—he was too lazy to go visiting.
The wife thought to herself:
"How can I leave such a lazybones alone at home? He’ll starve to death!"
So she came up with an idea: she baked a huge, enormous flatbread, so big that it would take several days to eat. She made a hole in the middle of the flatbread and hung it around her lazy husband’s neck.
"All he’ll have to do is move the flatbread around his neck and eat. Surely, he can manage that!" she thought.
The wife left. When she returned home a few days later, she found her husband still in bed. Only the part of the flatbread near his mouth had been eaten.
The wife was surprised that her lazy husband had eaten so little in several days. She went closer to him and saw that he was barely alive, dying of hunger, but he couldn’t even be bothered to lift a hand to turn the flatbread. What a lazybones he was!
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