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The Little Mouse The mouse watched as the farmers with opened a parcel, could it be cheese? No, it was a mousetrap. The mouse rushed to the farmyard to warn all the animals but each, in turn, said that it had nothing to do with them. The chicken did not care, the pig sympathised but had nothing to worry about and so it went on, each saying it had nothing to do with them. One animal offered to pray but nothing more.  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 farmya...

The Seven Wonders A Teacher asked her students to take some time and to draw up a list of the Seven Wonders of the World. They were asked to consider and decide what they thought from the ancient and the modern which were, in fact, the most important seven. Though there were some disagreements, the following received the most votes: 1.      Egypt's Great Pyramids 2.      Taj Mahal 3.      Grand Canyon 4.      Panama Canal 5.      Empire State Building 6.      St. Peter's Basilica 7.      China's Great Wall While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student had not finished her paper. So, she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many." The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can ...

A Touch of Sadness Mother superior was dying., it was a very sad time for the other nuns. They had lived under her guidance and were distraught as they gathered around her death bed.  They were trying to make her last journey comfortable. They tried giving her warm milk to drink but she  refused it . One of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen.  It was then, that she remembered a bottle of  Whisky that had been received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a generous amount into the warm milk. Back at Mother Superior's bed, they held the glass to her lips. The frail nun drank a little, then a little more and before they knew it, she had finished the whole glass down to the last drop. As her eyes brightened, the nuns thought it would be a good opportunity to have one last talk with their spiritual leader. "Mother," the nuns asked earnestly, "Please give us some of your wisdom before you leave us."  Her teaching...

The Golden Years A dear friend shared this experience, I leave her to tell the tale.  After a meeting several days ago, I couldn't find my keys. I quickly gave myself a personal "A Pat Down." They weren't in my pockets. Suddenly I realised I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I headed for the carpark. My husband has scolded me many times for leaving my keys in the car's ignition. He's afraid that the car could be stolen. As I looked around the parking lot, I realised he was right. The carpark was empty.  I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most difficult call of all to my husband: "I left my keys in the car and it's been stolen." There was a moment of silence. I thought the call had been disconnected, but then I heard his voice. "Are you kidding me?" he barked, "I dropped you off!"  N...

A Night of Fear. The Cherokee Indian father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The winds blew the grass, and the earth shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removed the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! This was an important rite for him and all other young men his age. Finally, after a horrific night, the sun appears, and he removed his blindfold. It is then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at w...

Bridges or Fences? Once upon a time, two brothers lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in forty years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and helping each other as needed. Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and  finally , it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence. One morning there was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. "I'm looking for a few days’ works," he said. "Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there. Could I help you?"  "Yes," said the older brother. "I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm.  That is my brother's farm. Last week we had a meadow between us he has changed the course of the river and so now we have a river. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I'll go him ...