Once upon a time a hungry and curious little mouse peeped through a tiny crack to see what the farmer and his wife had brought home from their shopping expedition. He quickly realised that they were unwrapping not some mouth-watering delicacy, but a mousetrap! Distraught, he scurried out to his friends on the farm.
The gutless chicken couldn’t care less about the clear and present danger faced by the mouse. The pious pig sympathised with the mouse, hoped that the despicable device would be defective, and said that he would include all the mice in his prayers. The lazy cow kept chewing the cud and wondered what the mouse’s alarm had anything to do with her bovine food.
At midnight a loud and nasty click was heard, and the farmer’s wife went to take a look at the prized catch. What she didn’t notice in the dark was that a snake’s tail had got caught in the mousetrap, and the angry reptile bit the woman sending her wailing into spasms of pain.
Three days later the lady developed a fever and, in an attempt to perk her up, the farmer killed the chicken to make soup for her. However, when her condition started worsening, friends and neighbours dropped by to lift her mood. In order to feed them the farmer butchered the pig. As fate would have it, she died in the morning. Her funeral attracted a couple of hundred grief-stricken relatives and friends from near and far, and the farmer served them the cow for food.
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