A Tale of Friendship The Story of the Crow, the Mouse and the Gazelle

Friendship Tale: In this tale, you will discover the story of friendship and cooperation between a crow, a mouse, a turtle and a gazelle.

Once upon a time there was a crow who lived in a place where there was plenty of prey. One day, as this crow lingered in his nest, he saw a hunter coming with his equipment. He hid in a corner and started to watch the hunter. The hunter spread his net on the ground. He spread some bait on it, hid somewhere and started to wait for his prey.

After a while, the collared pigeon, who was passing by with his army, saw the bait and dived. The other pigeons followed their leader. But just as they were about to start eating, all of them got their feet caught in the net. The hunter came out of his hiding place with joy and started walking towards the pigeons that had fallen into his net.

When the collared pigeon heard the fluttering and shouting of the pigeons under his command, he said to them. “Don’t break your unity and solidarity, let’s flap our wings together and try to lift the nets. This is our only solution.” Encouraged, the pigeons flapped their wings together and lifted the nets into the air.

They set off for the city. Because there lived a mouse in the city, a friend of the collared pigeon. Meanwhile, the crow started to follow them with curiosity. When they came to the mouse’s house, they landed on the ground. The collared pigeon called his friend, “Zeyrek!, Zeyrek!” Zeyrek the mouse came out of his nest when his friend Collared Pigeon introduced himself. He asked what happened to them. The pigeon told him what had happened to them and asked him for help.

But he demanded that his soldiers be rescued first and himself last. When the mouse asked why, the pigeon said, “I am afraid that if you get tired trying to save me first and stop cutting the net, you will not have enough strength to save my friends. But if you save them first, you will work more vigorously with the strength of our friendship to save me.”

The mouse was very pleased with this answer and after much effort he finally freed all the pigeons from the nets. Watching all this with admiration, the crow envied the friendship of the mouse and the pigeon. He wanted to be friends with the mouse too. After the pigeons left, he called the mouse by name. The mouse asked “who is it?” from inside.

The crow said, “A crow who wants to be friends with you.” The mouse says, “That’s impossible. I am your prey. How can I trust you?” and reacted to the crow. But the crow was determined. He praised the mouse’s personality and good morals. He explained that he was sincere that he really wanted his friendship for a lifetime, not his meat. Then he flew and landed on a branch. “I will not eat anything until I become friends with you,” he said.

The mouse then believed in his sincerity and accepted his friendship. Now they became friends. A few days later, the crow told the mouse that where you live is frequented by people, so they might run you over and kill you. Let’s go to where my house is. There is plenty of water and food there. And there is a turtle there who is my friend. If you want, let’s move there and live happily together.”

The mouse gladly accepted this offer. The crow grabbed the mouse by the tail and they took off.

Then they moved to where the crow lived. There they met the turtle. The crow and the tortoise embraced and hugged. The crow introduced the turtle to the mouse. They all became friends and started chatting.

The mouse told his story.

“Once upon a time I lived in a man’s house, and this man would take what he needed from his daily rations and hang the rest in a basket on the wall. When he would leave the house, I would jump up there and eat the rest of the food. Of course, he was aware of this. He would hang it higher to save the food in the basket, but I would somehow reach it. One day the man had a guest over. They ate, drank and started chatting. While I was trying to reach the basket, the man was trying to push me away and this attracted the attention of his guest. He asked what happened. The man told him what had happened.

“Whatever I did, I couldn’t get rid of that rat,” he complained. His guest gave him advice. “Let’s get a pickaxe and dig the mouse’s nest. Let’s see what’s wrong with it.” So they dug up my nest and there they found the bag of gold that I had stepped on and jumped on, and that was how I reached the food basket. They took it from there. The next day I and my fellow mice went hungry, because I was their hope of food. When I couldn’t find food, my fellow mice turned away from me. Twice I attempted to take the pouch while the man and the guest were asleep. But both times I was badly beaten by the man’s guest. So I put aside all my material ambitions. I was disgusted with gold and wealth. I left that house. I began to live a life of contentment. Then I met my pigeon friend, and then you. It turns out that friendship and love are more important than anything else.

After the story of the mouse, the turtle, the crow and the mouse said, “From now on, we are brothers and sisters” and bonded with each other. They realized that the best peace is in friendship. While they were talking like this, Ceylan, who had escaped from the pursuit of a hunter, came to them. He told them what had happened to him in fear. They told him that where they lived was a place of abundance and offered to live together and be friends. She accepted and stayed with them. In this way, they spent many beautiful days together.

One day they noticed that Ceylan was not attending their conversations and became curious. The crow took off, flew for a while and realized that Ceylan was trapped. He immediately informed his friends. They all rushed to Ceylan’s aid and rescued her when a mouse gnawed through the nets. But in the meantime, the hunter showed up. The gazelle ran away, the crow flew away and the mouse hid in a hole. The turtle was stuck in the middle because it was heavy and could not escape. The hunter caught him and tied him up. His friends were very sad about the turtle’s plight and began to think of a way to save him. The mouse found a solution.

According to this, the gazelle fell to the ground in the hunter’s field of vision as if it was wounded. The crow landed on the gazelle as if it was eating carrion. When the hunter moved towards the gazelle, the gazelle got up. It ran away for a while and then fell down again. In this way, the hunter followed the gazelle for a long time. But then he got tired. Meanwhile, the mouse came out of its hiding place and came to the turtle. He gnawed its ties and untied it. The two of them ran away from there. When the gazelle and the crow saw that their friends had escaped, they ran away from the hunter with all their might.

The crow, the gazelle, the mouse and the tortoise were united by stronger friendships. They lived their lives happily.