A Rich Mouse and a Holy Man

Once, there lived a holy man. He was quite poor. He would eat a little food and keep the rest in a begging bowl, hung high up on a peg. A mouse had seen this, and used to jump up and eat the food. One day, a friend of the holy man visited him. When they were talking, the holy man kept tapping on the ground with a stick to scare the mouse away. The friend asked, “What are you doing?” The holy man said, “It’s just that dreadful mouse! He eats away whatever food I save.” Wondering how the mouse could jump so high, the friend said, “The mouse must have put aside a lot of food, which must be giving him extraordinary energy to jump so high.” They dug and found the hoard of food that the mouse had gathered, and took it away. The mouse returned and found his store empty. He lost all interest in stealing food from the holy man’s bowl.

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