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A Tale of A Tail

In a beautiful small jungle, near to a beautiful human town. There lived a mouse named Dingy. Dingy got bored with eating the same food available in the jungle daily. So, last night he went to the nearby town in search of some exotic food.

He went near a restaurant and partied on leftover pizzas, burgers, and sandwiches. He ate his stomach full and then felt the urge to drink
something. As he searched for the drink, he found a small bottle filled with the liquid. He smelt the bottle and found it good.


Thus, he drank the liquid from it. In reality, it was a medicine. After roaming here and there for some time, Dingy returned to the jungle and fell asleep beneath a tree. So, the night went by and morning arrived, but Dingy was still sleeping as he ate a lot earlier night.


Near to where he was sleeping, the ants were moving in a line, taking food to their home and singing a morning inspirational song of hard work. The tail of the mouse hit few ants in the line. The ants thought the mouse was asleep, and he hit them accidentally with the tail. So, they ignored it, collected their food again, and moved. But again, the tail hit them. Now they went furious and bit the tail.


Mouse woke up crying. Ants shouted at him. Dingy, unable to understand what happened, said sorry to ants and moved from there. As he was walking, a squirrel passed by him, tossing a nut in the air and singing a song.


As soon as the squirrel passed through, Dingy’s tail grabbed nut from it. The squirrel soon stopped and realized that the nut it tossed, never returned to its hands. He saw here and there and then located the nut grabbed in Dingy’s tail. The squirrel came back and tried to get back the nut, but every time the tail dodged it.

The squirrel got furious and punched at the nose of Dingy. Dingy lost in his thoughts was unaware of the whole situation. Squirrel shouted to give him back his nut. Dingy looked at his tail and nut was there to his utter surprise.

He tried to give the nut but could not control his tail. After much effort, the tail threw the nut but far away. The squirrel went away, chasing the nut and shouting on the mouse.

Mouse got worried now, and after thinking, he realized the drink last night he had in the town might cause this. He was feeling dizzy because of the same. So, to avoid any further troubles from the tail, he decided to spend the rest of the day sleeping on the branch of a tree.


He climbed a tree and slept there. Soon after, a cat came there who found the place peaceful and decided to rest beneath the Dingy’s branch, unaware of his presence. As soon as the cat fell asleep, the tail of Dingy tingled its nose. The cat turned her face here and there, but repeated tingling woke her up. She opened her eyes to realise that a rat was behind all this, who now pretending to be sleeping. The cat got furious.


She climbed the tree above and pounced upon the mouse. The mouse opened his eyes very last moment and saw the cat coming; he jumped and ran to save his life. He entered a hole. The cat chased him and kept on waiting outside the hole.


She said, “how dare you to pull a prank upon me by tingling my nose with your tail. I will not leave you.” Mouse sat there in despair, cursing the time he had drunk that liquid. He thought, “this tail would get me killed today,” so he decided to sit the rest of the time in that hole only, till the tail stops making any further unwanted movements. Sitting there, he heard music.


He removed concrete and soil from there. On the other side was the dance academy run by the famous star dancer, Mak mouse. Dingy saw them from a distance. The music started again and as it was to happen, Dingy’s tail started making moves again. In a quest to stop the tail

from moving, he fell from there right in the front of dancers. His tail kept on making the moves and he kept on trying to stop it. In the entire process, a unique dance step got evolved. The music stopped and everybody present there clapped.


Mak said, “that was an excellent move and I am interested to include it in our performance for the upcoming annual mouse event.” “Do you mind?” he asked Dingy. Dingy said, “no.” Later that day, the tail stopped making uncalled movements as the effect of medicine faded away.


They held the annual mouse event as per schedule, and the dance step became famous as much as that every child and even adults were trying to learn the move in the free time. They gave the dance step a name, Dingy’s move. Dingy never thought he would be famous, because of his tail, and because of that liquid drink.

Anyhow, he has vowed not to eat or drink unknown things as he still remembers running for his life the other day