The Weasel and the Mice故事

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The Weasel and the Mice故事
            A WEASEL, inactive from age and infirmities, was not able to
            catch mice as he once did.  He therefore rolled himself in flour
            and lay down in a dark corner.  A Mouse, supposing him to be
            food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to
            death.  Another perished in a similar manner, and then a third,
            and still others after them.  A very old Mouse, who had escaped
            many a trap and snare, observed from a safe distance the trick of
            his crafty foe and said, "Ah! you that lie there, may you prosper
            just in the same proportion as you are what you pretend to be!"