This story is a classic that I've heard in other forms, but it's nice to know from where it actually originates. I've got a lot of ideas as to where I could take my story were I to retell this one. I think I'd make the mouse into a human character, and I'll probably set it in the modern world. I'd really like the character to start by trying to get something simple like a cup of sugar or milk for his cereal, then it just explode into him running all over. Also I'm going to change the ending, so that someone eventually helps him out of the kindness of his heart. Either that, or have him take so long trying to get all the stuff that time runs out and he can't get what his original item.
The mouse is sad. Source: Pixabay
Bibliography: Persian Tales, translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919).
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