Tales series

Mohammed Makram Balaawi

The little mouse asked his neighbor the hare:
"Why do you only come out of your house at night, my dear neighbor?"
The hare pointed to a black spot in the sky under the eye of the sun and said:
"Because I'm afraid the eagle will eat me."
The mouse laughed and said to the rabbit:
"How can you be afraid of him when he is so small?"
The rabbit replied:
"You see it as small because it flies far away in the sky. The eagle is big and has deadly talons."
The mouse objected:
"I don't believe that. I am smaller than you and I always go out in the daytime without being attacked by an eagle."
Then the mouse came out of his burrow into the open and danced and jumped up and down and called out to the eagle:
"Eagle, do you hear me? I dare you! Come and eat me if you can."
The eagle was flying in the sky looking for a big prey to satisfy him and did not care about this little mouse, but the little mouse believed that he was stronger than the eagle and said to the rabbit:
"See, my friend, if the eagle were as strong as you say it is, it would attack me."
The mouse started throwing stones into the sky towards the eagle and cursing him, which angered the eagle and he decided to teach the mouse a lesson he would never forget. In the blink of an eye, the eagle dived down and his shadow grew bigger and bigger on the ground and the air moved with his big wings like a storm, which frightened the little mouse and froze him in place, and the eagle hit the mouse with a quick blow with his claws that the mouse thought he would die. But when he opened his eyes, he saw that the eagle had risen into the sky again and checked himself and saw that he was unharmed. The mouse was very happy and thought he had defeated the eagle and frightened it, so he walked among the animals, raising his head and calling out:
"I have defeated the eagle . . I defeated the eagle . . "
But the animals were laughing at him without him knowing why, and suddenly a little squirrel asked him:
"Where's your long tail, uncle?"
The mouse turned back to see that his tail had disappeared. He realized that the eagle had cut it off, so he was ashamed of himself and ran to his burrow amidst the laughter of the animals. Since that day, the rabbit is no longer the only one who does not come out of his house except at night, but he has a companion called "The Tailless Mouse."
Mohammed Makram
Dammam