Chapter 160
A man who went out to hunt lions in a forest met a woodcutter, and he asked him whether he had seen any lion’s tracks and whether he knew where the lion’s lair was.
“Yes,” said the man, “and if you’ll come with me, I’ll show you the lion himself.”
Upon hearing this, the hunter turned ghastly pale, and his teeth began to clatter. “No, thank you,” he said. “It was the lion’s tracks that I was hunting, not the lion himself.”
It is easy for the coward to be a hero at a distance.