The Birmingham landlady wanted to please her lodger, Mulla Nasruddin, and the first day she gave him two slices of bread for his package lunch. The Mulla didn't seem satisfied so she gave him four slices the next day and then six slices and had to go on until he was getting ten. Even this was not enough so, in despair, she cut the loaf in half and put butter between the pieces. When the Mulla came in that evening she asked. "Had you enough today, Mulla?"
"IT WAS NOT BAD," Nasruddin said grudgingly, "BUT I SEE YOU ARE BACK TO THE TWO SLICES AGAIN."
