Subject: A Mouse Trap
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 01:36:36 EST
"A Mouse Trap"
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 mouse trap. Retreating to the farmyard,
the mouse proclaimed the warning: "There is a mouse
trap in the house, there is a mouse trap 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 mouse trap 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. She
said, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse. A mouse trap. I am in
grave danger. Duh?"
So the mouse returned to the house, head down
and dejected to face the farmer's mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the
house, like the sound of a mouse trap 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. 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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