Jami's tale satirizes greedy panegyrists through wordplay. A thin poet, nicknamed Laghari (Thinness), composes an eloquent panegyric for a fat master, hoping to be rewarded. Sensing the poet's expectation of payment, the master grows uneasy and sets off toward his castle, but his fatness leaves him short of breath and he pauses along the way. The poet remarks that the master's fatness is what pains him. Smiling through his inner distress, the master answers with a pun: ordinarily suffering springs from self-indulgence and bodily excess (tan-parvari), yet his present suffering comes entirely from laghari — both the leanness and poverty that the poet's demands inflict on him and the poet named Thinness himself. Through this pun, Jami mocks poets who impoverish and burden their patrons in pursuit of reward, extending the collection's critique of poetry debased into a tool of greed.