A hunter, not very bold, was searching for the tracks of a lion. He asked a man felling oaks in the forest if he had seen anymarks of his footsteps or knew where his lair1 was. "I will,"Said the man, "At once show you the lion himself." The hunter,turning very pale and chattering2 with his teeth from fear,replied, "No, thank you. I did not ask that; it is his trackonly I am in search of, not the lion himself." 
The hero is brave in deeds as well as words. 