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THE MOUSE TRAP
Author Unknown
October 12, 2010

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 mouse trap 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.

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