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 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 come to pass with Germany,
France, Belgium....