From: Allen, Crystal (ACS) [mailto:Crystal.Allen@...]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:39 AM
To: fquaqua@...; Jean-Baptiste Ellen; dferg98855@...
Subject: FW: When in need of a friend

>> 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 the warning.
> There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the 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
> house! There is a mousetrap in the 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 house!There is a mousetrap in the 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 house, head down and dejected, to face the
> farmer's mousetrap alone.
>
> That very night a sound was heard throughout the house like the sound of a
> mousetrap catching its prey.
>
> The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did
> not see 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,and
> she returned home with a fever. 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.
>
> But his wife's sickness continued, so 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. So many people came for her
> funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all
> of them.
>
> The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great
> sadness.
>
> So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it you
> doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all
> at risk.
>
> We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out
> for
>
> one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.
>
> SEND THIS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HELPED YOU OUT AND LET THEM KNOW HOW
> IMPORTANT THEY ARE. REMEMBER: EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER
> PERSON'S TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.
>
>
> One of the best things to hold onto in this world is a friend.
>
>
>

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