There is a Russian story about a farmer without a cow who lived next to a farmer with a cow. He fumed about the unfairness of it, but no matter what he did he

There is a Russian story about a farmer without a cow who lived next to a farmer with a cow. He fumed about the unfairness of it, but no matter what he did he couldn't scrape up the resources to get a cow of his own. So he prayed about it, and God offered him a wish. Did he want a cow of his own? "No," he said, "I want you to kill my neighbor's cow!"