Nino, the little mouse who lived on a farm
Freepik ( www.freepik.com ) Nino, the little mouse who lived on a farm. Once upon a time there was a small mouse named Nino. Nino was white and he had this heart shaped black birthmark right behind his ear. The other animals on the farm used to make fun of Nino for his birthmark because it looked like a small fly was sitting behind his ear. Growing up Nino used to get very upset. He tried so many time to get rid of this mark. He washed his ear with soap and water, tried to hide it with a wooly hat and once, in a moment of absolute desperation he dyed himself blue! You are wondering how did that happen? Well for days, he sat on the fence and watched Mark, the farm boy, dye cotton cloth blue in the big tub of indigo dye. It was a very special dye, it was brought from a far away land where everything was colorful and bright. So he saw this day after day, pieces of pale cotton cloth would go into the tub and come out bright blue. Pale as he was himself, he thought wow, If I dipp...