FABLE OF THE MOUSE
Mice are very busy creatures. They gather seeds and grain and collect little bits of straw or sticks for their nests. Always keeping their noses to the ground, they scurry here and there looking for whatever food and bedding they can find. Normally this is all they do and all they ever expect to do. The American Plains Indians, however, tell a story of one mouse who was different. One day this busy little mouse began to hear a faint thundering noise in the distance. She inquired of the other mice if they too heard it. No one else did, so she decided to forget the matter and busied herself all the more. Yet she continued to hear the thundering noise. Try as she would, she could not ignore it. Determined to discover the source of the thunder, the mouse set out on a perilous journey across the open prairie. Along the way she encountered predators as well as numerous…
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