Refugees

From a story by Sotiib (Author's name transliterated from some language to Hebrew and then to English)

A sudden heavy rain surprised an ant. "Where shall I hide so I won't get wet?" She saw a small mushroom, ran to it and go under it's dome. Rain fell harder and harder, but it was dry under the mushroom.

A wet dragonfly came up to the mushroom. "Ant, let me hide under the mushroom."

"How can I?" said the ant. "I can barely fit here myself."

"Move over a little! We can squeeze together!"

So the ant moved over and let the dragonfly enter.

The rain continued. A little mouse came by. "Let me get under the mushroom," he said.

"How can we let you under? There's no room!"

"Squeeze a little!"

So they squeezed together and let the mouse under the mushroom. And rain kept coming down.

Along came a bird. "I'm so wet and tired. Please let me rest under the mushroom till the rain's over," said the bird.

"But there's no room," said the other three.

"Please, squeeze together!" said the bird.

"OK. We'll try," they answered. So they squeezed together and found room for the bird.

Along came a rabbit. "Save me!" he cried. "The fox is after me!"

"We need to have pity on the rabbit," said the ant. "Let's squeeze together a little more."

As soon as they received the rabbit, along came the fox. "Have you seen a rabbit?" he asked.

"How do you think a rabbit could fit under this little mushroom?" replied the ant.

And the fox ran off.

The rain stopped. The four creatures came out from under the mushroom. "How is this?" asked the ant. "At first there was barely room for me. How did all five of us fit under the mushroom?"

A frog jumped out and said, "When it rains, the mushroom...." And he hopped away.
They all looked at the mushroom, and immediately understood.

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"Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him... for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt...and thou shalt love him as thyself..."