The moral of this man's fable of the fawn & his mother is "No arguments will give courage to the coward"
The Dogs 
and the Hides - AesopThe Fawn and His Mother - AesopThe Man Bitten by a Dog
... [DOC] [TLE] Aesop's Fables: Fables by moral - Aesop's Fables: daily fable [PAR] The Farmer and the Snake; No arguments will give courage to the coward.