Chapter 17
The story of a Mouse
(that left its suicide note)
My grand daughter, eight years of age, was playing games on her i-Pad that she normally down loaded from internet space.
She found a game that required the gamer to know some mumbo-jumbos related to Banking and finance such as expansion to acronyms of sorts.
Clicking an icon Start, the game begins.
A picture appears and it is very nearly covered by stick like objects - lines of varying thickness. You must name the hidden object in the picture, selected from a short list, displayed on the screen.
First acronym appears with twenty options to choose from. With each correct answer, one stick would disappear, exposing the object slightly more.
The game is designed in such a way that one may not correctly identify the object till the last stick is removed. I took the help of Google to find the answer the questions and finally all the sticks disappeared. There we found a dead rat and a suicide note nearby.
A mouse click on the object mentioned as suicide note, read as follows:
I decided to take the extreme step of committing suicide after carefully thinking about the pros and cons of my decision.
I hold the cat in the picture in the previous chapter wholly and completely responsible for my suicide.
The authorities, on the basis of my suicide note can give the cat the punishment due for abetting my death.
The mouse added further that, “I am not very sure if you had the patience to read the story of the cat but I am sure you will definitely read my story”.
Once upon a time, the world had more mouse than other species and certainly not one cat. Our elders tell us, even the God who made the world was a mouse but too very very large in size.
We had small legs and could not travel to far off places like the birds who travelled long distances and got its food adequately and in variety.
Our ancestors prayed the mouse god. Some day, suddenly the god sent a few people who studied under the sages in high mountains and deep forests.
They made for us, every facility required to go places easily and fast.
With the passage of time, mice could travel