A big Samurai had won many battles for his Lord in lots of wars during the years. However now he lost his first battle.

Discouraged, full of anger with himself and the rest of the world, he wanted to take his own life of which he felt it was worth nothing. He rode along the dusty roads, thinking about how he could leave for the hereafter in the most cruel and striking way.

Suddenly there was a little sparrow lying on his back, stretching both his feeth into the air.

The Samurai, being interrupted in his thinking, stopped and yelled at the sparrow:

"Make way, you unworthy piece of bird"

The sparrow replied in a smart way: "No I won't. I have a very big task to fulfil".

The Samurai, very surprised and astonished about sparrow's selfassured anwer, dismounted his horse, bend forward to the sparrow and said:

"Tell me, what is so important, that you won't go out of my way?"

"Oh", the sparrow answered, "they told me, that today The Heaven will fall on The Earth and here I lie to catch it with my feet"

When the Samurai heard this, he started to laugh and could hardly stop it. He yelled exploding with laughter:"What? You little featherball, you want to cath The Heaven with your thinny legs?"

The little sparrow repeated quietly and clearly:

"Well one does what one can!"