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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:57:34 +0000 |
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1 a man came into a forest and asked the trees to provide him a handle for his axe
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2 the trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash-tree
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3 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
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4 an old oak lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions said to a neighboring cedar
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5 the first step has lost us all
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6 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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