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+long ago the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy the cat
+some said this and some said that
+but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make which he thought would meet the case
+you will all agree
+said he
+that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us
+now if we could receive some signal of her approach we could easily escape from her
+i venture therefore to propose that a small bell be procured and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the cat
+by this means we should always know when she was about and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood
+this proposal met with general applause until an old mouse got up and said
+that is all very well but who is to bell the cat
+the mice looked at one another and nobody spoke