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 goat and told him, "There is a mousetrap in
the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!" The goat 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 neighbours came
to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the goat. The
farmer's wife did not get well and 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.
Please, 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.
#KipSmiln'
