Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources (1882)
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor. prt, Murray, John, Aesop, James, Thomas, 1809-1863, Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 · London : John Murray · leaf 88
hot day in summer, oppressed withthe noontide sun, perceiving a Plane-tree near at hand, madestraight for it, and throwing themselves on the ground restedunder its shade. Looking up, as they lay, towards the tree,they said one to another, What a useless tree to man isthis barren Plane ! But the… … Fable 91.—THE OAK AND THE KEED, An Oak that had been rooted up by the winds was bornedown the stream of a river, on the banks of which manyReeds were growing. The Oak wondered to see that thingsso slight and frail had stood tlie storm, when so great andstrong a tree as himself had been rooted up.…
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