English Original
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."
中文翻译
从前，有座房子里老鼠泛滥成灾。一只猫听说了此事，便自言自语道：“那正是我要去的地方。”于是她去了那座房子并住了下来，一只接一只地抓老鼠吃。
最后，老鼠们再也无法忍受，决定躲回洞里再也不出来。“这可麻烦了，”猫心想，“唯一的办法就是用计谋哄骗它们出来。”
她琢磨了一会儿，然后爬上墙，用后腿钩住一个木桩倒挂下来，假装死了。过了一会儿，一只老鼠偷偷向外窥探，看到了挂在那里的猫。
“啊哈！”老鼠叫道，“夫人，你无疑非常聪明。但就算你把自己变成一袋挂着的粮食，你也休想骗我们靠近你。”