Chapter 50
One day a fawn said to her mother, “You’re larger than a dog and swifter. You also have greater endurance and horns to defend yourself. Why is it then, Mother, that you’re so afraid of the hounds?”
She smiled and said, “I know all this full well, my child. But no sooner do I hear a dog bark than I feel faint and take off as fast as my heels can carry me.”
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward.
