Lafontaine Cochet Chat Souriceau

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(Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau) A young mouse, new to the world, runs home to tell his mother of a gentle, fluffy creature he longed to befriend, and a brutal, crested monster he fled in terror. The mother explains: the soft one was the cat, his deadliest foe; the fearsome one only the harmless cockerel. Moral: do not judge by the face; the gentlest look may be the most dangerous. — Jean de La Fontaine