boy was playing in the fields when he was stung
by a nettle. He ran home to tell his mother what had happened.
"I only touched it lightly," he said, "and the nasty thing stung me!"
"It stung you because you only touched it lightly," his mother told him. "Next time you touch a nettle, grasp it as tightly as you can. Then it won't sting you at all."
The moral of the story is: Face danger boldly.