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+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