The story of a mouse trap

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. 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. 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.   REMEMBER.  . . . . .  EACH  OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON’S TAPESTRY;   OUR  LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A  REASON.