Not really funny, just wise...
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, a mouse trap in the house!
"The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and
said, "Excuse me, 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 mouse
trap in the house, 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.She said, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse.
A mouse trap. Like I am in grave danger. Duh...NOT!"
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 and a few
days later she passed away. So many people came for her
funeral, that 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 there
is a mouse trap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk.
HB
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Excellent fable, HB
