There was once a house overrun with mice. A cat heard of this and said to herself, "That's the place for me." She went and settled in the house, catching and eating the mice one by one.
At last, the mice could stand it no longer and determined to retreat to their holes and stay there. "That's awkward," thought the cat. "The only thing to do is to coax them out by a trick."
After considering a while, she climbed up the wall, hung herself down by her hind legs from a peg, and pretended to be dead. By and by, a mouse peeped out and saw her 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."