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The Fables of Æsop (Jacobs)/The Man and the Wood

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London: Macmillan, pages 68–69. . See notes.

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THE MAN AND THE WOOD


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MAN came into a Wood one day with an axe in his hand, and begged all the Trees to give him a small branch which he wanted for a particular purpose. The Trees were good-natured and gave him one of their branches. What did the Man do but fix it into the axehead, and soon set to work cutting down tree ​


after tree. Then the Trees saw how foolish they had been in giving their enemy the means of destroying themselves.



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