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The Trees and the Axe.

A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to providehim a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gavehim a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handleto his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokesthe noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too latethe destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "Thefirst step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of theash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood forages."

In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.

From Aesop's Fables