A CERTAIN HOUSE was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this,made her way into it and began to catch and eat them one by one. Fearing for their lives, the Mice kept themselves close in theirholes. The Cat was no longer able to get at them and perceivedthat she must tempt them forth by some device. For this purposeshe jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretendedto be dead. One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her andsaid, "Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into ameal-bag, we will not come near you."He who is once deceived is doubly cautious
