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,(if you are not a vegetarian)
so the farmer took his hatchet tothe 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. .
