No Concern
Of Ours
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 think of to do about it. Surely someone else will step in to
help."
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 cow slaughtered 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