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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