Peter Sofos’s Reviews > The Jungle Book > Status Update

" 'Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice,' said the troop-horse. 'Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don't understand. We've broken out of our pickets, again and again, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip-snaked at home in Australia until we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.' "