Page:La Fontaine - The Original Fables Of, 1913.djvu/134

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THE FOREST AND THE WOOD-CUTTER

follow it. They use the benefit against the benefactors, I weary of talking about it. Yet who would not complain that sweet and shady spots should suffer such outrage, Alas! it is useless to cry out and be thought a nuisance: ingratitude and abuses will remain the fashion none the less.