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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