HINDU FABLES
THE TIMID HARES
Once there was a timid little hare who was always afraid something dreadful was going to happen.
She was always saying, "What if the earth should fall in? What would happen to me then?"
One day, after she had been saying this to herself many times, a great coconut fell from a tree.
"What was that!" said the hare.
She jumped as if she had been shot.
"The earth must be falling in!" she cried.
So she ran and she ran as fast as she could run.
Soon she met another hare.