Rat Trap

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 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.......