A rat looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The rat wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard, the rat proclaimed the warning: "There is a rat trap in the house! There is a rat trap in the house!" The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr Rat, 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 rat turned to the goat and told him, "There is a rat trap in the house! There is a rat trap in the house!" The goat sympathised, but said, "I am so very sorry Mr Rat, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers." The rat turned to the cow and said, "There is a rat trap in the house! There is a rat trap in the house!" The cow said, "Wow, Mr Rat, I'm sorry for you, but it is no skin off my nose." So, the rat returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's rat trap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house like the sound of a rat trap 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 matchet to the farmyard for the soup's main Ingredient. Alas! the farmer's wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbours came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the goat. The farmer's wife did not get well, she died. Many people came for her funeral and the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them. The rat watched all these from his crack in the wall with great sadness. So my people, always be concerned about the rat in your house.

Kind of what goes around comes around.

Good story posted on the wrong section.