The mortified cat immediately dropped the mouse and began washing, and the clever little mouse promptly scooted off.
Ever since, cats have not washed up before dinner.
"This is my plan," said the cat. "What are you going to do?" The fox thought and thought as he looked in his bag of tricks, and while he was debating the hounds came nearer and nearer. At last the fox in his confusion was caught by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said: "Better one safe way than 100 on which you can not reckon."
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As the proposal was being applauded, a mouse who was even wiser stood up on his feet and said: "It is easy to propose impossible solutions. I agree that it is an admirable plan, but who is going to bell the cat?"
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There was an old woman who was tossed up in a blanket 7 times as high as the moon: But of her mission not a single mortal could tell, for under her arm she carried cat, broom and bell. "Old woman, old woman," said I, "whither, oh, whither, oh, whither, so high?" "To sweep the cobwebs," she said, "from the sky... but I'll be back with you by and by." |