In this Baharestan tale, a Bedouin who swore to sell his lost camel for a single dirham evades the letter of his oath by tethering a cat to the camel's neck and refusing to sell the two separately, pricing the cat at a hundred dirhams. A bystander remarks how cheap the camel would have been without that collar. The concluding verse draws the moral: refuse a base person's gift, for the chain of obligation (منت) he ties around it weighs a thousandfold more than the gift itself. The concept combines two learnable ideas — the casuistic trick used to circumvent a rash oath, and the teaching that true generosity is unlike the burdensome giving of the mean.