The Rats and the Weasels

The rats and the weasels were at war. Now the rats, seeing themselves always beaten, gathered in assembly, and, imagining that it was for want of leaders that they met with these reverses, chose generals and elected them by a show of hands. Now these generals, wanting to be distinguished from the common soldiers, fashioned horns and fitted them on. When the battle was joined, it happened that the rats' army got the worst of it. Then the soldiers fled to their holes, which they entered easily; but the generals, unable to get in because of their horns, were caught and devoured.