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While browsing in an antique store in Israel, a man noticed a brass mouse. “How much do you want for the mouse?” he asked.  The storekeeper answered “the mouse is $10, but if you want it with the story it’s $100.”  The man handed him $10 and took the mouse. “You’ll be back for the story,” the shopkeeper said.   As he left the store with his brass mouse, the man saw mice following him. There were 50, then 500, and as he kept going, faster and faster, there were thousands of them.  He ran to the ocean and threw the brass mouse into the waves. The thousands of mice ran in after it and all of them drowned.  The next day, the man went back to the antique store. Seeing him, the shopkeeper said “So, you’re back for the story.”  “No,” he replied.  “I came to ask if you have a brass Arab.”

05/10/2021