Once, a mouse had gone to his uncle’s house near a pond. The mouse loved to do adventurous work. One day, the mouse was roaming along the bank of the pond then he saw a frog. Soon they became good friends. The mouse said to him, “Won’t you pay me a visit? I can promise you a good time if you do.” The mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it. Though he could swim a little yet he did not dare going into the pond without some help. The frog had a plan. He tied the mouse’s leg with his own with a tough reed. Then into the pond he jumped, dragging his foolish companion with him.
The mouse soon had enough of it and wanted to return to the shore; but the treacherous frog had other plans. He pulled the mouse down under the water and drowned him. But before he could untie the reed that bound him to the dead mouse, a hawk came sailing over the pond. Seeing the body of the mouse floating on the water, the hawk swooped down, seized the mouse and carried it off, with the frog dangling from its leg.
