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Once upon a time.....there was a
large tabby cat which , from the
minute she arrived at the farm,
spread terror among the mice that
lived in the cellar. Nobody
dared go outside for fear of falling into
the clutches of the awful cat.
The fast-shrinking mouse colony
decided to hold a conference
to seek a way of stopping
themselves from becoming extinct.
Taking advantage of the cat's
absence one day. mice of all ages
streamed into the conference
room. And certain that they could
solve the matter, each one put
forward a suggestion, but none of
the ideas were really
practical.
''Let's build an outsize trap,
'' one mouse suggested. When this
idea was turned down, another
said: ''What about poisoning
her? ''But nobody knew of a
poison that would kill cats. One
young widow whose husband had
fallen prey to the teeth, so she can
do no more harm. ''But the
conference did not approve of the
widow's idea.
At last, one of the mice wiser
than the rest, scrambled to the
top of the lantern that shone
over the meeting. Waving a bell, he
called for silence:''We'll tie
this bell to the cat's tail, so we'll
always know where she is! We'll
have time to escape, and the
slow and weaker mice will hear
har coming and be able to hide!'' |
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