The Fawn and the Stag

One day a fawn said to the stag, "Father, you are bigger and faster than the dogs, and you have besides marvellous antlers to defend yourself. Why then do you flee like this before them?" The stag replied with a laugh, "It is true, my child, what you say; but there is one sure thing: that when I hear the barking of a dog, at once I rush, I don't know how, into flight."