Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider whatmeasures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse gotup and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meetthe case. "You will all agree," Said he, "That our chief dangerconsists in the sly and treacherous1 manner in which the enemyapproaches us. now, if we could receive some signal of herapproach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore,to propose that a small bell be procured2, and attached by a ribbonround the neck of the cat. by this means we should always knowwhen she was about, and could easily retire while she was in theneighbourhood." This proposal met with general applause, until an old mousegot up and said: "That is all very well, but who is to bell thecat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke3. Then theold mouse said: 
It is easy to propose impossible remedies. 