The Candy Mouse

By: Mostafa Araki

There was once a rabbit living happily in a forest. He would gather carrots everyday for his meals and was quite pleased with his food. But one day he met a crazy mouse who offered him candies and told him that he really didn't need to have carrots for food and could instead take candies from him (from the mouse) and give his carrots to him instead. The rabbit accepted and did that for a few days, but soon found that he was doing the wrong things because the candies made him weak and sick, so that he couldn't run like before and also his eyesight had become very weak, because candies have no vitamin A so needed for the health of rabbits.

Then the rabbit thought that he should no longer listen to the mouse and that he should avoid eating candies and return to his normal diet - eating carrots.

Fortunately, that rabbit found out the fact before it was too late - before getting too sick and so was able to save himself from the trouble-making mouse. From then on, that rabbit never talked to the mouse and tried to find a good wise friend - a friend who does not make one do harmful things.