The Weight of a Snowflake

        "Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coalmouse asked a wild
dove.

        "Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered.

        "In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coalmouse
said.   "I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to
snow.  Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard.  No, just like in a dream,
without any violence at all.  Since I didn't have anything better to do,

I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my
branch.  Their number was exactly 3,471,952.  When the next snowflake
dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing--as you say--the
branch broke off."

        Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.

        The dove, since Noah's time an authority on peace, thought about
the story for a while.  Finally, she said to herself, "Perhaps there is
only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world."

        -Source unknown