Greek folk story: the rat-to-rat story

once upon a time, a mouse had a daughter who it considered beautiful and other rats had come to ask for a marriage, and it was not worthy of it.

but a daughter must get married! one day in the yard, the mouse is thinking about her marriage, she's up and she sees the sun.

"yes," he said to himself, "only the sun is worthy of being my son-in-law." so he rushed to the sun palace and said to the sun, “the sun, you are the strongest and most handsome in the world, and i intend to marry you my daughter.

who is worthy of my daughter but you?” and the sun said, "dear, i'm not like you think, just say the clouds over there.

if it surrounds me, i'll be overshadowed.

i can't help it.

find the clouds, perhaps he will marry your daughter." the mouse went to the clouds and said she was going to marry her daughter.

and the cloud said, “look at the north wind.

as soon as it comes, i'll be scattered, and i will never be able to get together again.” the north wind is better than me.

try it! this time, the mouse brought his daughter to the north wind to show his heart.

the northern wind listens to me, and says, "dear mouse, i've got your kindness, but i'm not as good as you think.

find the tower.

you know what? i blew it for 340 years and i couldn't break it." and so the mouse came to the tower and made it clear.

the tower said, "mots, rats, do you hear the sand in my wall? it's the rats eating me in the hole, and sooner or later i'll be crushed." speaking of which, rats are still the best in the world." it was the mouse who decided to marry his daughter to his own kind。