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.
SEND THIS
TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT
AND
LET THEM KNOW
HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE.
REMEMBER:
EACH OF US
IS A VITAL THREAD
IN
ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY;
OUR LIVES
ARE WOVEN TOGETHER
FOR A
REASON.
One
of the best things
to hold onto in this world
is a friend.
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