Aesop's Fables

"I bought a book of Aesop's Fables in Portuguese yesterday. It has the coolest art ever in it. And I may start using some of those fables in lessons. I especially like the fable called the Belling the Cat where the mice get together and formulate a plan to put a bell on the cat's neck and everyone thinks it is wonderful but then the big question becomes, who is going to put the bell on the cat's neck. I could use that in a training."

Belling the Cat

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. Then the old mouse said:

"It is easy to propose impossible remedies."