. Folk tales from Tibet : with illustrations by a Tibetan artist and some verses from Tibetan love-songs. om the Mouse. Why, said he, what could the Mice do to helpme in my present predicament ? We are threatenedwith invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mineby many thousands, and all the men I can muster willnot be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy. I dontsee how the Mice can help me. Do you remember. Oh King! repHed the Mouse, that on the last occasion I was here you doubtedour ability to carry away the grain you had givenus, or to repay you the loan ? And yet we provedourselves
. Folk tales from Tibet : with illustrations by a Tibetan artist and some verses from Tibetan love-songs. om the Mouse. Why, said he, what could the Mice do to helpme in my present predicament ? We are threatenedwith invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mineby many thousands, and all the men I can muster willnot be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy. I dontsee how the Mice can help me. Do you remember. Oh King! repHed the Mouse, that on the last occasion I was here you doubtedour ability to carry away the grain you had givenus, or to repay you the loan ? And yet we provedourselves able to do both. All we ask you nowis to trust us again, and if you will undertake todo one or two things which we ask of you, we onour part will undertake to rid you of the invadingarmy. The King was a good deal struck by this remark ofthe Mouse, and he rephed : Very well, what you say is quite true; and ifyou will inform me what you wish me to do, I willundertake to carry out my share of the bargain. Well, then, answered the Mouse, all we wish youto do is to provide us by to-morrow evening with one. .^ THE COUNTRY OF THE MICE. 137 hundred thousand sticks, each about a foot long,* andto have them laid in rows on the bank of the you will undertake to do this, we on our side willundertake to stave off the threatened invasion and toput the opposing army into a state of confusion andpanic. And if we succeed in carrying out all we promise,we will ask you for the future to safeguard us againstthe two principal dangers which threaten the existenceof the Mice who Live in your country. I will gladly do what I can, replied the King, tosafeguard you against these dangers if you will tellme how to proceed. The two dangers to which I refer, continued theMouse, are flood and Cats. You see the majorityof our burrows are in the low-lying land near the river,and whenever the river rises a little it overflows thislevel country and floods our nests. What we wouldsuggest to you is that y
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