The Trees And The Axe
Aesop Fable: The Trees And The Axe
A man came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide
him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request
and gave him a young ash-tree.
No sooner had the
man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began
to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest
giants of the forest.
An old oak, lamenting when too late
the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring
cedar, "The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up
the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own
privileges and have stood for ages."
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