Chapter 37 mouse and cat

One evening, a poet met a farmer.The poet is withdrawn, the peasant is shy, and yet they talk. The farmer said: "Let me tell you a little story I heard recently. A mouse was caught in a mousetrap; while the mouse was happily eating cheese placed in the cage, there was a cat in the cage. Beside. The mouse trembled for a moment, but he knew that he was safe in the cage. "Then the Cat said: "My friend, you are eating your last meal." Yes, the Mouse replied: "I have only one life, so I will die only once."But what about you?It is said that you have nine lives. Doesn't that mean you have to die nine times? "The farmer looked at the poet and said, "Isn't this a novel story? "The poet didn't answer the farmer, he walked away, but he was thinking in his heart: "It is true, we have nine lives, indeed nine lives.So we die nine times, and we die nine times.Perhaps it would have been better to have but one life, caught in a cage--living the life of a peasant, with a sliver of cheese for his last meal.Yet are we not relatives of the lions of deserts and forests? "

The Mouse And The Cat Once on an evening a poet met a peasant. The poet was distant and the peasant was shy, yet they conversed. And the peanut said, "Let me tell you a little story which I heard of late. A mouse was caught in a trap, and while he was happily eating the cheese that lay therein, a cat stood by. The mouse trembled awhile, but he knew he was safe within the trap. "Then the cat said, You are eating your last meal, my friend. "Yes, answered the mouse, one life have I, therefore one death. But what of you? They tell me you have nine lives. Doesn't that mean that you will have to die nine times?"

And the peasant looked at the poet and he said, "Is not this a strange story?" And the poet answered him not, but he walked away saying in his soul, "To be sure, nine lives have we, nine lives to be sure. And we shall die nine times, nine times shall we die. Perhaps it were better to have but one life, caught in a trap -- the life of a peanut with a bit of cheese for the last meal. And yet, are we not kin unto the lions of the desert and the jungle?"