The Mouse Trap.....

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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?s a mouse trap in the house! There?s a mouse trap in the house!?

The chicken clucked, scratched and said, ?Mr. Mouse, I can see that this is of grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.?

The mouse then turned to the pig and told him, ?There?s a Mouse Trap in the house!?

?I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse,? sympathized the pig, ?but there is nothing that I can do about it. But be assured that you are in my thoughts.?

The mouse then turned to the cow who replied sarcastically, ?Like, WOW, Mr. Mouse! A mouse trap! I?m in grave danger! Duh!?

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer?s mouse trap alone.

That very same 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 later returned home with a fever.

Now everyone knows you treat a fever with chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup?s main ingredient.

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. In fact, she died. So many people came for her funeral 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 you think, that it doesn?t concern you, remember: When the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

Are you listening, France, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Luxembourg, Russia and Belgium...?

Author Unknown