The School of Little Mice was where the children of tenant farmers, warehouse workers, and migrants heard stories of the weak overcoming the strong, e.g., the story of The Foolish General.
"You're no #match for me & my missile-equipped drones!" the general sneered. But starlings swooped by & pecked threads loose from his uniform. Sparrows flew in & pulled those threads. Soon the man was down to his underwear, seized, & marched thru the streets past a jeering populace.