Has anyone heard this story?
There's a story I heard a long time ago about a mouse or maybe a rat or ant or other small creature who saves a tied-up lion's or a man's or something like that's life by bringing him/it small amounts of water and food. The lion/man/whatever it is thinks that the amounts of water and food the mouse/ant can carry are too small to be of any good, but it actually helps that they're small because the lion/man can't gulp the water down all at once and still be thirsty; he has to drink it slowly.
Has anyone else heard this story? Did I make up the memory of hearing/reading it? I thought it might have been one of Aesop's, but although he DOES have a rather famous fable about a mouse helping a lion, his is about the mouse chewing through ropes. Anyway, there's a bit in chapter 15 of American Gods that reminded me of the one I was talking about, with Shadow and the squirrel, but now I can't find the original story. WOE.
Also, I'll probably have to go home to Texas soon, unless I can convince someone to hire me in the next couple of weeks, and I keep forgetting that my birthday is next week. I think my brain wants to block out the fact that I'm almost a quarter of a century old. (The fact that this icon happened to be up when I loaded Semagic is fitting, y/y?)
Has anyone else heard this story? Did I make up the memory of hearing/reading it? I thought it might have been one of Aesop's, but although he DOES have a rather famous fable about a mouse helping a lion, his is about the mouse chewing through ropes. Anyway, there's a bit in chapter 15 of American Gods that reminded me of the one I was talking about, with Shadow and the squirrel, but now I can't find the original story. WOE.
Also, I'll probably have to go home to Texas soon, unless I can convince someone to hire me in the next couple of weeks, and I keep forgetting that my birthday is next week. I think my brain wants to block out the fact that I'm almost a quarter of a century old. (The fact that this icon happened to be up when I loaded Semagic is fitting, y/y?)