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-- 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.
It
was a venomous snake
whose
tail was caught in the trap.
The
snake bit the farmer's wife.
The
farmer rushed her to the hospital.
When
she returned home she still had 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.
Friends
and neighbors came to sit with
her
around
the clock.
To
feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.
But,
alas,
the
farmer's wife did not get well...
She
died.
So
many people came for her funeral
that
the farmer had the cow slaughtered
to
provide enough meat for all of them
for
the funeral luncheon.
And
the mouse looked upon it all
from
his crack in the wall with great sadness.
The
next time you hear someone is facing a problem and you 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.