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The Fawn and His Mother

By Aesop


I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint.

A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother: "You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running; why, then, O Mother! are you always in such a terrible fright of the hounds? " She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but yet when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint.

Moral:
No arguments will give courage to the coward.

Source Book

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop

Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York

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