A Mouse in the House

By Catherine DuPont

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 this warning:
“There is a mousetrap in the (White) House! There is a mousetrap in the (White) 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 (White) House! There is a mousetrap in the (White) 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 (White) House! There is a mousetrap in the (White) 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 (White) House, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap. . . alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house — the loud snapping of the mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she could not see her prize. However, it was a venomous snake whose tail was caught in the trap. The snake bit the farmer’s wife, delivering it’s deadly venom.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital.

When she returned home she still had a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup. So the farmer took his hatchet to the chicken coop in the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient…but his wife’s sickness continued.

Friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

But, alas, the farmer’s wife did not get well…she died.

So many people came to her funeral that the farmer had the cow slaughtered
to provide enough meat for the funeral luncheon.

And the mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So the next time your friends get nasty that you are deeply concerned about our present political situation: the destruction of our Constitution and the Rule of Law; the shenanigans in the White House and Congress regarding this President’s qualifications to be there; the influx of illegal immigrants and their addition to our voter registrations, Social Security and Medicare; the arrival of Shirah Law and the removal of our God from the backbone of our government – and these friends think this situation is NOT about Our Country BUT about Our Prejudice, remind them — we are all at risk.