BELL THE CAT

A story between Belling the Cat by Aesop is given below,

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" .

Moral of Aesop's Fable:
"It is easy to propose impossible remedies"