{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes023.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes023.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes023.htm","text":"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.\"\nNo arguments will give courage to the coward.","title":"The Fawn and His Mother","type":"page"}