The Trees and the Axe

by Aesop

Versions of The Trees and the Axe include:

• "A Tree and a Wedge", part of "Fable XLVI to XLIX", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Trees and the Axe", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Trees and the Axe", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)