Aesop's Fables Edited by Charles Stikeney.

THE AXE AND THE TREES

ONCE upon a time a man came to a forest
to ask the Trees if they would give him
some wood to make a handle for his Axe.
The Trees thought this was very little to
ask, and they gave him a good piece of hard
wood. But as soon as the man had fitted the
handle to his Axe, he went to work to chop
down all the best Trees in the forest.
As they fell groaning and crashing to the
ground, they said mournfully one to another,
"We suffer for our own foolishness."

THE AXE AND THE TREES
ONCE upon a time a man came to a forest to ask the Trees if they would give him some wood to make a handle for his Axe. The Trees thought this was very little to ask, and they gave him a good piece of hard wood. But as soon as the man had fitted the handle to his Axe, he went to work to chop down all the best Trees in the forest. As they fell groaning and crashing to the ground, they said mournfully one to another, "We suffer for our own foolishness."

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