Friends Forever .
A mouse and a frog were friends. Every morning
the frog would hop out of his pond and go to visit
his friend who lived in a hole in the side of a tree.
He would return home at noon.
The mouse delighted in his friend’s company
unaware that the friend was slowly turning into an
enemy. The reason? The frog felt slighted because
though he visited the mouse everyday, the mouse
on his part, had never made an attempt to visit him.
One day he felt he had been humiliated enough.
When it was time for him to take leave of the
mouse, he tied one end of a string around his own
leg, tied the other end to the mouse’s tail, and
hopped away, dragging the hapless mouse behind
him.
The frog dived deep into the pond. The mouse tried
to free himself but couldn’t, and soon drowned. His
bloated body floated to the top.
A hawk saw the mouse floating on the pond’s
surface. He swooped down, and grabbing the
mouse in his talons, flew to the branch of a nearby
tree. The frog, of course, was hauled out of the
water too. He desperately tried to free himself, but
couldn’t and the hawk soon put an end to his
struggles.
In Africa they have a saying: ‘Don’t dig too deep a
pit for your enemy, you may fall into it yourself’.
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