A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
wife open a mousetrap package. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse
announced, "There is a mousetrap in the house!There is a mousetrap in
the house!..." The chicken, the pig and the cow expressed their
sympathies for the mouse but said it doesn't concern them personally.
That night, the trap caught the tail of a venomous snake. The farmer's
wife went to check the trap in the darkness and got bitten. She was
rushed to the hospital and returned with a fever. The chicken was
killed to make soup for the woman's fever. When her sickness continued
and more people came to sit with her round the clock, the pig was
butchered to feed them. When she eventually died, the cow was killed
for her funeral.
The mouse survived while the It-doesn't-concern-me animals did not.
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When next you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't
concern you, remember that an injury to one is an injury to all. We
must be our brother's keeper and make an extra effort to encourage one
another.
