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330.The Walnut-Tree

A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit. For the sake of the nuts, the passers-by broke its branches with stones and sticks. The walnut-tree piteously exclaimed,

“Wretched me! that those whom I cheer with my fruit should repay me with these painful blows!”

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