A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package;
what food might it contain?
He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse
proclaimed the warning, "There is a mousetrap in the house, there is a mousetrap in the
house."
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is
a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house."
"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can do about it but
pray; be assured that you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mousetrap; am I in grave
danger, Duh?"
So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mousetrap
alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a
mousetrap catching its prey.
The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was
a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.
The snake bit the farmer's wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital.
She returned home with a fever.
Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet
to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.
His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the
clock.
To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral
the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern
you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.
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