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The 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, a mousetrap in the

house! "

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, " Excuse me,

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 mouse trap in the

house, 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. Like I am in grave danger.

Duh..NOT! "

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 and a few days later she passed away.

So many people came for her funeral, that 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 there is a mouse trap in the

house, the whole farmyard is at risk.

Marilyn

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