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Once upon a time, a mouse gave birth a baby mouse and snake gave birth a serpent.
The mouse was prohibited its baby from playing at in the brook near his house, lest he is drowned and died.
One day the baby mouse and serpent met, and they are became friends and the played together.
In the evening when they are finished playing, both are baby mouse and serpent went to their mothers.
When the baby mouse got home, his mother remarked that his hair was wet and spoke to him harshly.
Mother Mouse: Did you go to play at the brook thatis I forbade you from going?Baby Mouse: No, I did not go to the brook.Mother Mouse: Then how come you are so wet?Baby Mouse: It’s the saliva of my friend serpent that made me wet.Mother Mouse: Listen very carefully! Since the time of our ancestors, snakes have never been our friends. They still consider us their favorite food. Now, starting from today, never dare to play with a snake, it is not your friend but your enemy. Besides, if you dare to play with him, it could kill you and eat you, stay far away from him.When the small snake got home, with venom and you bring him here for us to eat. Serpent: yes mom, I understand. Tomorrow I’ll bring him to you.r observed and mahis motheI was playing with my friend little mouse.Mother Serpent: Oh! What an idiot!You mean our favorite meal is now a friend? Do we not have them as part e remarks about the hair in his little mouth. Mother Serpent: Since when did you start to eat by yourself without keeping some for me?Serpent: of our delicacy every day? Here’s what you will do tomorrow when you go out to play; when he comes close to you, bind him, inject himdNo, I have not eaten anything.Mother Serpent: But where did the hair in your mouth come from?Serpent: The next morning, the serpent arrived earlier at the spot where the two friends meet to play. The serpent was smiling while he called out to his friend the young mouse with good humoble hatred settler.Serpent: My friend, cplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse.ome, come out to play!The prudent Baby mousble hatred settlee observed how eagerly the serpent approached him, he then remembered his mother’s advice and told the serpent:Baplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse.by mouse: I cannot come near you. We must not forget our motherplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse.’ advice. You’re not my friend, you’re my enemy now, your goal is to kill me and take me to your home as food.The serpent went back home very disappointed and sable hatred settleid to her mother:Serpentplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse.: Look, the little mouse was warned byplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse. hisplaying.Since that day playing.Since that day a terrid between the snake and the mouse.a terrible hatredplaying.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse. settled between the snake and the mouse. mother, he even refused to approach me for playing.Since that day a terrible hatred settled between the snake and the mouse.
Lesson not only for African children, but also for non-Africans:
There is an African proverb that says: “The words of the elderly may be bitter, but they are full of wisdom”
It is always good to listen to our parents’ advice because they can usually sense when an action is dangerous.
If the little mouse did not listen to his mother’s advice, he would have been bitten and eaten by the snake. Like the little mouse, let us listen to the advice of our parents or adults because they have a wealth of life experience much more than us.
