mmxgn@0: a man came into a forest and asked the trees to provide him a handle for his axe
mmxgn@0: the trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash-tree
mmxgn@0: 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
mmxgn@0: an old oak lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions said to a neighboring cedar
mmxgn@0: the first step has lost us all
mmxgn@0: if we had not given up the rights of the ash we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages