Just as if you weren't bigger and finer and stronger in every way than that dead thing on the floor!' "Then, when he had got me to the point where of my own free will I would walk up and touch the thing, he drew a lesson for me.
"'Now remember,' he charged me.

'Never run and hide again.

Only cowards do that.

Walk straight up and face the thing.

Ten to one you'll find it's nothing but a dead skin masquerading as the real thing.