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      ATTENTION! PLEASE READ MY STORY! 
  A Mouse looked through the 
 crack in the wall to see the farmer
 and his wife opening a package.
 
 "What food might this contain?"
 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". 
 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 that you are in
 my prayers."
 
 
 
 The mouse turned to the cow. 
 She 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 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 
 and 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.
 
 
 But his wife's sickness continued,
 so friends and neighbours came to sit 
 with her around the clock. To feed them, 
 the farmer butchered the pig.
 
 
 The farmer's wife did not get well. 
 She died; And so many people came 
 for her funeral the farmer had the cow 
 slaughtered to provide enough meat 
 for all of them.
 
 
 
 So next time you hear that someone is
 facing a problem and think that it doesn't 
 concern you, remember that 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 be willing to make that extra effort to encourage one another.
 
 Nobody makes the journey alone!
 
 Lisa xxx