There's A Mousetrap In The House

[leighm]

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. http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1

Retrea ting to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning : http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=3&fid=Inbox&inline=1
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.

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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 s aid, I am
so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there
is nothing I can do about it but pray.

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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, 'Wo w, Mr. Mouse.
I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose.'
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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 http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=7&fid=Inbox&inline=1,
and she returned home with a fever. http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=8&fid=Inbox&inline=1

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.

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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. http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=10&fid=Inbox&inline=1


The farmer's wife did not get well;
she died. http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=11&fid=Inbox&inline=1

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 fro m
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.http://au.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f460125%5fAObPjkQAAMksSW6GsQk2kArG V%2b4&pid=12&fid=Inbox&inline=1

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.