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(19) course to stratagem. For this purpose, she herself from a hook with her head, pretending to be dead. The and Mice observing her, as they  from their holes, in this dangling attitude  she was hanged for some ; and with great joy immediately  forth in quest of their prey. Puss, as as a sufficient number were collected, quitting her hold, dropped into the  of them; and very few had the  to make good their retreat. This having succeeded so well, she was  to try the event of a second. she whitened her coat all over, by herself in a heap of flower, and in  disguise lay concealed in the bottom of  meal-tub. This stratagem was executed general with the same effect as the former. But an old experienced Rat, altogether as as his adversary, was not so easily ensnared. I dont much like, said he, that white heap yonder; something whispers me, is mischief concealed under it. 'Tis, it may be meal; but it may likewise be something that I shall not relish quite so well. There can be no harm, at least, in keeping at a proper distance: for caution, I am sure, is the parent of security.