Genuine Laziness
A YOUNG farmer, inspecting his father's concerns in the time of
hay-harvest, found a body of the mowers asleep, when they should have
been at work. What is this? cried the youth; why, me, you are so
indolent, that I would give a crown to know which is the most lazy of
you.--I am he, cried the one nearest to him, still stretching himself
at his ease. Here then said the youth, holding out the money. O,
Master George, said the fellow, folding his arms, do pray take the
trouble of putting it into my pocket for me.