The Cat And The Mice
Aesop Fable: The Cat And The Mice
A certain house was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering
this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat
them one by one.
Fearing for their lives, the Mice kept themselves
close in their holes. The Cat was no longer able to
get at them and perceived that she must tempt them forth
by some device.
For this purpose she jumped upon a peg,
and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead. One
of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, "Ah,
my good madam, even though you should turn into a mealbag,
we will not come near you."
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