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From: roughsandsmooths

To: ozeyescheme@...

Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:27 PM

Subject: [ozeyescheme] This is a posting that I think is relevant......

Mouse Story

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.

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.

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.

Do you still believe that PETA and other animal

rights groups' activities

won't affect you? There is a mousetrap in the

house!

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