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03-20-03, 11:41 PM
"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, there is a mouse trap in the house."
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr.
Mouse, I can tell you
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." "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, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a
mouse trap; am I 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 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,
in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer
had the cowslaughtered 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 the least of us is
threatened, we are all at risk.
And so it may be with France, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Sweden,
Greece, Russia, etc. "
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, there is a mouse trap in the house."
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr.
Mouse, I can tell you
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." "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, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a
mouse trap; am I 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 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,
in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer
had the cowslaughtered 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 the least of us is
threatened, we are all at risk.
And so it may be with France, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Sweden,
Greece, Russia, etc. "