Lone Elephant Browsing

Title

Lone Elephant Browsing

Artist

Anthony Mwangi

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

THERE IS THIS STORY ABOUT THE MICE AND THE ELEPHANTS. As it goes, elephants used to go to the lake to drink water every now and then. On their way to the lake, they would pass through a certain field that was full of mice. As it were, they killed a lot of mice under their strong and heavy feet all the time as they walked heavily down to the lake.

One day, the king mouse thought about this and decided it was an overkill. He went and met the king elephant and reported on the many deaths due to the elephants walking all over them and killing them on their way to the lake. The big King elephant told him off as a small animal with no much value to the big elephants. All the elephants laughed about it!

All the same, the wise king elephant decided to change the elephant route to the lake just to respect the mice since they also had a right to be alive. On seeing what the elephant king had decided, the King mice promised to pay back that good deed in the future. And yes, he forgave them for laughing.

As days, months and years passed, the elephants used a different route to avoid killing the mice. This way the mice grew from a small number to more than a million. As a good story would have it, and on one fine morning in the jungle, some bad guys used huge nets to trap several elephants so that they can come for their tusks later. That meant that the elephants would get killed in big numbers to get their precious teeth!

Like any good story, one elephant was not caught in the net with the others, he had delayed a little for some reason as they went to the lake. When King elephant whom was trapped in the net saw this free elephant, he quickly asked him to ran to the King mouse and ask him for the favor he had promised those many years ago.

King mouse promptly summoned a million and one mice to follow him to where the elephants were trapped in huge nets. Immediately they got there, they started chewing on the big nets until all the elephants were set free.

Moral of this Elephant and Mice Story? ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.

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April 30th, 2019

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