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Mouse Story
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the
farmer and his wife open a package.
"What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered
- he was devastated to discover 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 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! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The pig
sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there
is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow and said "There is a mousetrap in
the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"! The cow said,
"Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."
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
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, and
she returned home with a fever. 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.
But his wife's sickness continued, so 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. So many people
came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered
to provide enough meat for all of them.
The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with
great sadness. So, the next time you hear someone is facing
a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when
one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved
in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for
one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.
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18-02-2007, 06:56
Nice Story
