A Mouse, Pig, Cow and Snake

A Mouse, Pig, Cow and Snake

A fun little story about compassion. 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.

Do not forget to do good and to help one another,
because these are the sacrifices that please God"
(Hebrews 13:16, GNT).

Source: The Daily Hug, www.2nspireyou.com/