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Group One
1 City mouse...
2 The bald knight
3 A man is undone
4 The peace-loving sun
5 An astrologer suffers
6 The wise wasp
7 The little mice
8 The thirsty crow
9 The canny dog
10 The wounded wolf
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7. The Little Mice Plan to Bell the Cat
Believe me,
said a youthful mouse,
That cat makes too much fuss,
The silly thing just sits and waits
to capture one of us.
You're right,
a peer said, looking grim,
I find the cat disgusting,
You never know just where she is!
No wonder we're mistrusting.
Quickly a committee formed
And came up with an answer!
A bell around the kitty's neck
Would neutralize the cancer!
The crowd rejoiced:
OUR PROBLEM'S SOLVED!
But Grandma Mouse looked leery,
She sighed a tired sigh and said:
I've just one simple query.
Who'll be the one to volunteer
To go and bell the kitty?
And all kept perfect silence then,
Especially the committee.
MORAL: Many a plan has just one flaw: No one has the courage to try it.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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