It is believed that once, there was a loafer in a village. He was so slothful, that he wouldn’t even chew his food.

    Seeing that he wouldn’t do the smallest thing in a million years, the villagers decided to send him to the gallows so he couldn’t serve as an example to the rest. Thus, a few men went to the loafer’s house, lifted and put him in a bullock cart, like an insensitive piece of flesh, and started their way to the place of execution.

   As they were getting closer to the gallows, a carriage, which was carrying a lady, happened to go on the same road. The lady, seeing in the bullock cart a man who seemed sick, asked the two villagers with pity: “Folks! I guess the man from the bullock cart is sick and you are taking him to a doctor that will take care of him.”

    One of the carriers replied: “No, ma’am! Excuse me, Your Majesty, but this is a loafer that, we think, is a unique example in the whole world. That’s why we are planning on sending him to the gallows. This way, we are helping the village to get rid of a ne'er-do-well.”

    Shuddering, the lady said: “Wait, people! It is a pity to get rid of the poor man like a hopeless case. You would better take him to my home farm - the courtyard on that slope. I have a barn full of rusks there for, God forbid, the rough times. He will eat rusks and is going to live around my house as God will always help me make my way out of poverty. We owe it to ourselves to help each other.”

    The carrier said to the loafer: “Listen to Her Majesty, you lazybones! Ma’am is going to take you to her home farm and put you in a hut full of rusks. You were born under a lucky star. But no good deed goes unpunished. Get out of the chariot quickly and thank the lady for saving you from death. This way, taking you under her wing, she saved you from death and now you are going to feel like in Heaven. We were thinking of giving you soap and rope, but Her Majesty is giving you a place to leave and rusks. This is life! It is well said that oxen plow and horses eat. Come on, answer whether you agree or not. There is no time to wait.”