A Mouse Story

[Dee Bee]

A 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 shouted to the chicken,
"There's a mousetrap in the house! There's 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's of no consequence to me. And I'm very, very busy.
I can't be bothered by your mousetrap."

The mouse turned to the pig. "There's a mousetrap in the house!
There's a mousetrap in the house!" he warned.

The pig said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. That's too bad for you, but it's no skin off my nose. A mousetrap isn't much of a threat to me."

The mouse turned to the cow and said, "There's a mousetrap in the house."

The cow said, "I'm so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there's nothing I can do about it. You do, however, have my deepest sympathy."


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 died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough food for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all sadly from his crack in the wall.

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The next time you hear someone is facing a problem but think it doesn't concern you, remember that when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life.

[vbhoutex]

AMEN!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[tropicana]

WOW! OK! Thats deep! Thanks!

[Stephanie]

Smart little mouse! That is so true though!