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fJS ONG ago, the mice 

 held a general council 

 to consider what measures they 

 could take to outwit their com- 

 I mon enemy, the Cat. Some said 

 this, and some said that ; but at last a 

 young mouse got up and said he had a pro- 

 posal to make, which he thought would meet 

 the case. " You will all agree/ 5 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 



