"What is courage? Does it grow
Like potatoes in a row?
Don't ask me for I don't know!"
shouted Scraps, the Patchwork Girl, diving suddenly from the tree top and bouncing upon the Doubtful Dromedary. Being stuffed with cotton made Scraps very daring.
"I've a hunch," began the Comfortable Camel, very much relieved that the Patchwork Girl had fallen on his friend.
"Where? On your back?" screamed Scraps, flinging her arms about his neck.
"I've a hunch," continued the camel calmly, paying no attention at all to the Patchwork Girl, "that courage isn't the way you feel, but the way you act. As you always act bravely, why worry about the way you feel?"
"But you never felt as frightened as I feel," objected the Cowardly Lion.
"His knees do quake,
His teeth do chatter,