Adventures from the Book of Virtues1996

Plato:
The town of Hamelin had a serious rat problem. But the real rats in town weren't vermin. They were town officials wearing ermine.

Sock:
Uh... what's ermine?

Plato:
A special kind of fur. In the Old World, in the old days, it was used to trim fancy robes, like the mayor and councilmen wore.

Sock:
You mean - these badger officials wore someone else's fur?

Plato:
Oh, that's not all they did.

[Sock screams and waves his arms in horror]