This folktale describes a foolish man's plan to buy a donkey and how he ends up having nothing. One day, the man announces that he wants to plant thorns along the road in order to collect more wool from passing sheep and sell the wool to buy a donkey. After hearing his wife reply that she will ride this donkey back to visit her home, the fool shouts that doing so would work the donkey to death and kills her. This type of folktale is told to criticize lazy people who do not want to work hard and yet who expect to reap great rewards.