Once there was a greedy mouse who wanted to eat a lot. He saw a basket full of grains, and he was very happy to eat them. So he made a small opening in the basket, then crawled inside the basket through this opening. While he was inside the basket, he ate a lot of grains until he felt his stomach full, and he was very happy.
At that time, the greedy mouse wanted to get out of the basket. He tried to get out through that small opening, but he couldn’t because his stomach had become extremely full due to the abundance of food he had eaten. He tried again, but he couldn’t get out. So the greedy mouse began to cry. While a rabbit passed by him at that time, he heard him crying loudly and asked him: “Why are you crying, my little one?”
The mouse answered him: “I made a small hole in this basket and entered it to eat the grains present here, and now I can’t get out of here.” The rabbit said: “That happened because you ate a lot of grains. You must wait until your stomach digests.” Then the rabbit laughed and went on his way far from the greedy mouse.
The greedy mouse slept in the basket, and in the morning of the next day, his stomach had indeed digested and was no longer full of food. But he wanted to eat again a lot of the abundant grains, to the point that he had forgotten that he couldn’t get out of the basket yesterday, so he ate a lot of grains until his stomach became full again.
After the greedy mouse ate, he remembered that he had to flee from this basket. But indeed, he couldn’t as happened before, so he shouted: “Oh, I must now wait until night.” But unfortunately, he wasn’t able to wait, as the cat was passing by the basket, saw the greedy mouse inside, raised the basket’s lid, and ate the greedy mouse who couldn’t escape.
The Moral of the Story: Greed brings its owner to harm and destruction, just as happened with the greedy mouse who wanted more food until the cat ate him.
Translated from the English language under the title: The Greedy Mouse