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The Cat and the Mice

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There was once a house that was overrunfull offilledcrammed with Mice. A Cat heard of this, and said to herself, "That's the place for me," and off she went and took up her quartershomeroomplace to live in the house, and caught the Mice one by one and ate them. At last the Mice could stand it no longernot put up with itnot tolerate it, and they determineddecidedchoseselectedto take to their holeshomes and stay thereremain. "That's awkwardstrangeunusual," said the Cat to herself: "the only thing to do is to coaxcharmwin overencourage them out by a trickcheatlie." So she consideredthoughtpondered a while, and then climbed upwent up the wall and let herself hang down by her hind legs from a peghookhanger, and pretended to be dead. By and byEventuallyIn time a Mouse peeped outlooked and saw the Cat hanging there. "Aha!" it cried, "you're very clever, madam, no doubt: but you may turn yourself into a bag of meal hanging there, if you like, yet you won't catch us coming anywhere near you."

Moral: If you are wiseintelligentclever you won't be deceivedtrickedfooledduped by the innocent airspeople of those whom you have once found to be dangerousdeceitfuldishonestharmful.