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A Simple Lesson
Donated by: Peggy Parker
A rat 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 rat trap.
Retreating to the farmyard the rat proclaimed the
warning;
"There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the
house!"
The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her
head and said,
"Excuse me, Mr. Rat, 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 rat turned to the pig and told him,
"There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the
house!"
"I am so very sorry Mr. Rat," sympathized the pig,
"but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.
Be assured that you are in my prayers."
The rat
turned to the cow.
She said, "Like wow, Mr. Rat.
A rat trap. I am in grave danger. Duh?"
So the
rat returned to the house,
head down and dejected,
to face the farmer's rat trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the
house,
like the sound of a rat 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.
She died, and so many people came for her
funeral that 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 there is a rat trap in the
house,
the whole farmyard is at risk.
AUTHOR: Unknown
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