UNDERSTANDABLE COURAGE
Maurice bragged, “I’m not afraid of anything. Once I even cut off a lion’s tail with my pen knife.” Someone asked, “Why didn’t you cut off his head?” Maurice looked a bit sheepish. “Well, to tell the truth, someone had already cut it off.” L’Action Sociale, Haiti, as reported in Maxwell Droke’s Speaker’s Book of Illustrative Stories, (Droke House, Indianapolis, IN, 1956), p. 68.
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