Once there was a man who was poor and lazy, and he had a wife who was even worse. Her name was Jenny. Jenny was so lazy that it was hard for her to lift one foot after the other. Besides being lazy, she was always complaining. "Oh!" she would groan in the morning, "I wish we didn't have to get up!" and "Oh!" she would moan at night, "I wish we didn't have to take our shoes off before bed!"

One day, when they were both out in the forest collecting sticks, Jenny said, "I don't see why we're not rich! I don't see why the King should live so easily while we have to struggle for everything we get! I just hate work!"

Of course, the problem with both Jenny and her husband wasn't that they worked, but that they didn't. Because they didn't work, they had so much time to think about it.

"Darn it all!" Jenny continued, whining, "Adam and Eve are to blame for all our troubles! If they hadn't disobeyed God's command and eaten that apple, we'd all be living in the Garden of Eden today! It's all their fault that we have to work so hard!"