All I needed was Time

 

The Mulla bought a donkey. Someone told him that he would have to give it a certain amount of food every day. This he considered to be too much. He would experiment, he decided, to get it used to less food. Each day, there
fore, he reduced its rations.

Eventually, when the donkey was reduced to almost no food at all, it fell over and died. 

'Pity,' said the Mulla. 'If I had had a little more time before it died I could have got it accustomed to living on nothing at all.