A labouring man when he was refused by his master any payment either in money, cattle, land or fruit for his labour judged his master well. He thought that there was some good reason which prevented the master from paying him and the supposition was afterwards found correct. For the money was sunk in a business, the cattle were pledged, the fruit was not yet tithed and the clothes were a votive offering. The master then recompensed him in full.
The Laborer Who Assumed the Best of His Master
Gaster, Exempla of the Rabbis No. 79 (1924); Shabbat 127b