The Jungle Book - İngilizce Roman

“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, four hundred and fifty of us, just because a new recruit got to telling tales of whip snakes at home in Australia till we were scared to death of the loose ends of our head-ropes.”

“That's all very well in camp,” said Billy. “I'm not above stampeding myself, for the fun of the thing, when I haven't been out for a day or two. But what do you do on active service?”