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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

435. THE MAN AND THE CAT
Perry 594 (Odo 21)

Against bishops who rely heavily on their subordinates.
There was a certain man who had some cheese in his pantry. Then a mouse came and began to gnaw at the cheese. The man did not know what to do. Finally he put a cat in the pantry but the cat ate both the mouse and the cheese.

Note: For a similar situation involving a weasel, see Fable 378.


Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.