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title: The Kind Mouse and the Ungrateful Snake, Also in Hindi | Bachpan Diaries
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# The Kind Mouse and the Ungrateful Snake
By Manoj Rajput • June 30, 2026
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There was once a mouse who lived in a hole in a field.
He was a generous mouse. He shared his food with birds who came nearby. He helped a beetle who had fallen on its back. He was simply that kind of creature — the kind that helps without thinking too hard about it.
One winter morning he found a snake lying stiff and cold near his hole.
The snake was barely alive. The cold had got to him in the night.
The mouse looked at the snake for a long time.
He knew what snakes did. He was not foolish.
But the snake looked so close to death that something in the mouse could not just walk past.
He brought the snake into his hole. Warmed him with dried grass. Brought him small pieces of food. Sat with him through the day.
By evening the snake had recovered.
The mouse moved toward the entrance of his hole.
The snake moved faster.
He coiled around the mouse before he could get out.
"What are you doing?" the mouse said. "I saved your life."
"I am a snake," the snake said simply. "This is what I do."
"But I helped you."
"Yes," the snake said. "And I thank you for that. But my nature does not change because you were kind. I am hungry. You are here."
A passing mongoose heard the noise — snakes and mice together make unusual sounds. He came quickly. The snake uncoiled and fled.
The mouse sat in his hole for a long time afterward.
He did not stop being kind after that.
But he learned to look carefully at what he was being kind to.
Kindness is never wrong.
But know who you are giving it to.
Some creatures cannot help their nature — even when you have helped them.
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