
The Stag Who Learned to Thank His Legs
In a mist-hung forest clearing, a stag who adores his own splendid antlers and dismisses his four plain legs is gently taught, by a still pool, a passing lion, and a patient thicket of blackthorn, that the quiet and unadmired parts of us are the very things that carry us home.
Retold from Aesop's Fables, translated by V. S. Vernon Jones.