Now, my plan is this. We will hang a bell to that cat’s neck.”
“The very thing! Hurrah! Hurrah!” cried all the rats together.
“Why haven’t we thought of that before?
No more of us will go to make dinners for that old cat.
Now, for all the corn we can eat!”
And away sprang the hungry rats for the stalls.
“Stop! Stop!” cried the wise old rat. “Back to your places!
The bell isn’t on the cat’s neck yet.”
Slowly and sadly the starving rats settled back.