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THE FAWN AND HIS MOTHER.

Fawn once said to his mother, "You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have, too, your horns as a defence; why, then, 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 only 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.

THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION.

Ass and the Fox having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the