Animal Fables VI: Owl

Hello AUW. Your fable made me want to write my own little one. I was try­ing to send it to you via my gmail but appar­ently there seems to be a hic­cup some­where there…It won’t let me access my email …it’s being fussy.

Any way feel free to respond where ever you want…and if you want of course.

If you want to see my little funny mouse sketch you know where to find me. (I enjoyed andre so I decided to have some fun of my own.)

Take care and I hope you have a won­der­ful night.

Mouse fable:

Mr. Mouse was quite lost. He needed to go home but it seemed the more he searched, the more lost he became.

Frus­trated he asked one of the forest anim­als for help and they said why not ask the Cat for he knows the forest through and through. Mouse knew this was true, but cat also had a habit of eat­ing mice, but yet, he had to get home. Could he trust Cat? So Mouse went to see Owl and asked what he thought of his plan. Owl hooted plaint­ively, “you must choose your friends wisely not all who offer help have your best interest at heart. Cat likes to eat and although the winter hasn’t star­ted yet and there is plenty of food, what makes you think he won’t be hungry after so long a jour­ney.” Mouse replied “but I must go home. I must be home by winter or surely I will die.” Owl hooted, “let me bring you home. But mouse was not con­vinced as he knew Owl too liked to eat mice and so he says and why wouldn’t you eat me?” Owl says “because you are my friend”. “Cat says he is my friend as well.” “Owl hooted, but I have wings and can carry you home. ”

Very frus­trated at his lack of options mouse goes off to sit by the lake and cry. Rab­bit comes up and asks him why his is mak­ing more water for the lake. Mouse explains “I must rely on those that want to eat me to take me home, but if I don’t accept their help I will die from the winter so far from home because i am a mouse.” “What does a mouse have to do with you die­ing?” “Well because I don’t have wings, to see the entire forest, or long legs that will take me over stretches of land in a short time, I don’t even have claws to defend myself.” “And now I must die.” Well says Rab­bit if you are decided about it then stop mak­ing those sob­bing noises and die quietly.” Mouse moans “but don’t you see I don’t want to die.” “Well then, you can use your other strengths to help you out of your situ­ation.” “Strengths?…” he utters “But i have none. Do you not listen?” “Rab­bit sighs patiently every­one has some­thing, take that poor rock over their, it’s no rock, its turtle and his shell hides and pro­tects him.” “Then what do I have?” “I can’t tell you what you have” says rab­bit exas­per­ated.” “You must know what you have. You are a silly mouse” and with that rab­bit hops off.

Later Mouse comes back to Owl and says “I accept your help to bring me home. How about tomor­row?” Owl accepts and the next day they meet. Owl holds little mouse in his claws and off they go till mouse sees his vil­lage and instructs owl to go down, but owl doesn’t go down . Mouse cries piti­fully. “Please let me see my vil­lage one last time if you are to eat me. Render me this prom­ise you have made.”

So Owl lowers down to the vil­lage when without warn­ing cat jumps on his back. Mouse leaps away and says “I have no claws, beak or wings to defend me but I am cun­ning. I asked Cat to fol­low us and prom­ised in return he would have a big­ger meal then myself.” And off mouse ran into the night as both Cat and Owl sat mes­mer­ized on how such a small mouse had fooled them and how quickly his tiny shape could dis­ap­pear under the shadow of the evening.