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Gustave Doré's illustration of La Fontaine's fable, c. 1868. Belling the Cat is a fable also known under the titles The Bell and the Cat and The Mice in Council.In the story, a group of mice agree to attach a bell to a cat's neck to warn of its approach in the future, but they fail to find a volunteer to perform the job.
The name derives from the idiom "belling the cat", which comes from a medieval fable about mice who discuss how to make a cat harmless. One mouse suggests hooking a bell around the cat's neck, making it unable to move without being heard. All the mice support the idea, but none is willing to do it.
Bell the Cat may refer to: Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (1453–1514), Scottish nobleman also known as "Bell-the-Cat" Bell the Cat (Snowpiercer), television episode; Belling the Cat, medieval fable also known as The Bell and the Cat
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Who Will Bell the Cat? is a 2018 children's picture book by Patricia McKissack. Based on the fable Belling the Cat , it was published by Holiday House and is illustrated by Christopher Cyr. It concerns a group of mice who nurse back to health an ungrateful terrifying cat called Marmalade, make a bell and collar warning device, and how they ...
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However, A. S. Wilkins in his edition defends the future tense parturient, explaining the line as meaning "if you do begin so, it will be a case of 'Mountains in labour, and out comes a mouse'." [5] A number of writers of Greek origin also alluded to the fable.