A Bull that was hard press'd by a Lion, ran directly toward a Goat-Stall, to save himself. The Goat made good the Door, and Head to Head disputed the Passage with him. Well! says the Bull with Indignation. If I had not a more dangerous Enemy at my Heels, than I have before me, I should soon teach you the Difference betwixt the Force of a Bull and of a Goat.
'Tis no Time to stand quarrelling with every little Fellow, when Men of Power are pursuing us upon the Heel to the very Death.Source:
L'Estrange 218.
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SLIDESHOW of all the Tenniel-Wolf images. In this illustration, the goat is in a cave, not in a goat-stall, as in L'Estrange's version.
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