Canary and Cat
A professor of a university in Tokyo was sitting in the veranda of his Japanese-style house in the winter.
Then suddenly a canary flew onto a board of the veranda. The professor just wanted to capture it. But the small bird came near to him voluntarily. So the professor thought that he had a birdcage kept somewhere in his house, and he thought he had to find it. Then the canary voluntarily jumped into a storage room. The professor could easily put the bird into an old birdcage.
He thought that the bird must have been hungry, so that he prepared some vegetable feed. As the bird was watching him cutting some leaves, the canary started to chirp so busily.
In this way the family of the professor started to live with the stray canary. Before this incident, they kept a cat which had already gone. They felt somehow empty and void. But now a small bird singing well became a new key player in their happy circle.
One day when a family member was trying to feed the canary, it got out of the cage and flew away into the winter sky.
But next day, a young cat wandered into the professor's home to stay there determinedly. So, the family again got a pet which pleased them in their space for relaxation.
Of course, if a canary and a cat had been kept together by the professor, the former should have wished for leaving the house, flying high even into the cold winter sky.
But how could the canary know, a day before, that a cat was going to settle down in the house?
This episode was written in a collection of literary jottings by professor Torahiko Terada who died in Tokyo in 1935.
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Joh 6:10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
Joh 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
Joh 6:12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Joh 6:13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.