"Address yourself to the sun at once, then," cried the impatient
father one day; "there is nothing above him, surely."
"Quite so; I had already thought of it," she answered, "and since you,
too, are in sympathy with the idea, we will make our call to-morrow."
So, on the following morning the proud father and the haughty
mother-rat went together to present their lovely daughter to the orb
of day.
"Lord Sun," said the mother, "let me present our only daughter, who
is so beautiful that there is nothing like her in the whole world.
Naturally we desire a son-in-law as wonderful as she, and, as you see,
we have come to you first of all."
"Really," said the sun, "I am extremely flattered by your proposal,
but you do me too much honor; there is some one greater than I; it is
the cloud. Look, if you do not believe."... And at that moment the
cloud arrived, and with one waft of his folds extinguished the sun
with all his golden rays.
"Very well; let us speak to the cloud, then," said the mother-rat, not
in the least disconcerted.
"Immensely honored, I am sure," replied the cloud in his turn, "but
you are again mistaken; there is some one greater than I; it is the
wind.
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