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THE FROG AND THE MOUSE

In a pond, close to a paddy field where the young shoots of rice were the
greenest of the green, lived a frog. He blended well with his surroundings and
he got along well with his other froggy family. Quite near the pond under one
of the roots of a Rain Tree lived a mouse. During some of the evening sojourn
both would bump into each other, but other than a quick glance, neither
exchanged a word. The frog hopped around looking for insects to gulp down,
while the mouse was happy gnawing t a root or nibbling some grain.

The frog had many friends but he couldn't help observing that the mouse
was shy and kept to herself.''What gentle eyes she has,'' he thought to himself.
And one day he thought , ''She nibbles her food with such grace.''

One day when,as usual, he hoped past her, he stopped and said, ''Hello
there, how do you do?''.

And the mouse replied, because she had good breeding, ''I am well. How
are you ?''

And that was the beginning of their fri

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