Why It Pays To Be Bilingual

A new home-owner recently moved into an old house in our neighbourhood, with her cat. There was a hole in the wall of the house, in which lived a mouse.

Every day the cat would chase the mouse but he couldn’t catch it, and the mouse would laugh at him. One day, the cat almost caught the mouse. The next day, the cat waited outside of the mouse hole. The mouse was very scared because he could hear the cat outside of the hole, meowing. The cat sat there continuing to meow (meow, meow, meow).

Eventually the meowing stopped and all the mouse could hear was ruff, ruff, ruff. The mouse, full of joy, ran out of his hole knowing that he had been saved. As the mouse came out of his hole, the cat pounced on him and gobbled him up, walked away smiling and saying to himself, “It pays to be bilingual.”