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| Once upon a time in a very ordinary village there was a very ordinary milk farm. And, as it is natural for a milk farm, most of the animals there were cows. There were also several chickens, half a dozen pigs, but only one horse. So, while all the other animals had the company of their own kin, the horse had none and, because of that, very often felt extremely lonely, especially in the evenings when she didn't work. Occasionally the other animals would feel sorry for the lonely horse, but most of the times they were too busy with each other to think about her. And, in any event, they could do nothing about that, couldn't they? Then one evening the cows decided to invite the lonely horse to their barn. They were very proud of their decision because it showed how kind and considerate they were. But the real motive for their invitation was pure and simple curiosity - they knew next to nothing about horses and wanted to ask a lonely horse a lot of questions. The horse was very excited too. "I will try to conduct myself in the best possible manner to please the cows," she thought, "so that they will invite me again and I wouldn't be so lonely anymore." The evening came and the horse went to visit the cows. They were lying on the straw spread on the floor of the barn chewing the cud idly. At the sight of the horse the cows livened up a little. Some of them even stopped chewing to ask the horse the usual questions, like, where had she come from (since there were no other horses on the milk farm), what kind of food do horses eat and how does it differ from cow's food, and some other , less important ones. But as soon as their initial curiosity has been satisfied they lost all interest in the lonely horse and resumed chewing their cud again. They also started to talk among themselves. Their talk, as monotonous as cud-chewing , was mostly about milk, how much of it each gave that day, and secondly, about what they were eating during the day. And while they were talking, they completely ignored the lonely horse. The horse began to feel ill at ease. She couldn't lie down with the cows on the floor, and the sight of her alone standing in the middle of the barn put her even more conspicuously apart from the rest. Tired of standing on one spot the lonely horse started to wander around, looking for somebody to strike a conversation with. But since she couldn't talk about milk (for the obvious reason of knowing nothing about the subject), and the cows, in their turn, knew as little about carrying the heavy loads, any conversation would quickly draw to a halt. Getting more and more restless the horse tried to relieve the tension by running around a little bit (as the place would permit, of course). This didn't sit well with the cows at all, for they found her acting in such a manner rather eccentric. And her occasional neighing was met with downright disapproval as a behaviour unsuitable for good company. The cows even suspected her, for a moment, of laughing at them. And so, the evening was a total disappointment for both sides. The lonely horse was never invited to cow's barn again and from then on was paid even less attention to than in the past. She continued to spend her evenings alone, as before, but now was somewhat wiser and more reconciled to her loneliness realizing, finally, that the way she was, she probably just didn't fit into respectable cow society and couldn't do anything to change it. |
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