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 pig and
told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the
house!” The pig 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
(Chicken). 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. The
farmer’s wife did not get well; 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. 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. 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. Each of us is a vital thread
in another person’s tapestry.... Source: more.ng/stories/the-mouse-trap-a-story-about-others-problems | Visit http://more.ng/ for more
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