The cat-and-mouse game
A cat may look at a king. Не заносись, я не хуже тебя.
Sara is playing with a doll on the bench. Someone is purring next to her. The girl turns around and sees her favourite female cat Lulu. Lulu is Sara’s deftest cat. She likes catching mice and birds.
Right now she is holding something in her mouth. Suddenly the cat lets this something drop onto the ground, and the girl sees a little grey mouse. Sara has got some mice among her toys. But this mouse is different. It is alive and very nice. The mouse stands up on its legs unsteadily. It is afraid of the cat and is trembling.
The cat Lulu behaves as if she isn’t looking at the mouse. The mouse runs away. But the cat reaches it in no time and treads with her paw on its tail. Then she lets the mouse run again.
Sara feels envious. She has never played with a live mouse. «Lulu, let me play with the mouse too», says the girl to the cat.
But the cat can’t be bothered. Lulu hisses and scratches Sara.
Well, Lulu, that’s enough!
Sara calls her grandfather.
«Grandpa, I’d like to play with the mouse too» asks the granddaugther.
«No, darling. The mouse is alive. It’s scared of you» answers the girl’s grandfather.
«Poor little mouse. We’ll help you. We’ll take you home to your family now», he adds.
They take the mouse to the field and let it go. The mouse starts running away but suddenly stops and looks back at its rescuers. Perhaps it does that just out of curiosity. But Sara understands that in her own way:
«Grandpa, the mouse knows that we’ve saved its life».
«That’s quite possible, mice are not silly», Sara’s grandfather agrees with his granddaugther.
«I think the mouse wants to thank us for saving it. But it can’t speak, and that’s why it’s looking at us».