The Fawn and His Mother

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 The Fawn and His Mother (George Fyler Townsend's Version)

A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.”

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

(From Three Hundred Æsop's Fables Literally Translated From The Greek By The Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A. — Public Domain).

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