to view all this is only one nut.”
A Kid, who came from a poor Goat family, heard this announcement, but alack-a-day, he had no nut. His legs and he decided to run down the slope to the brook, where a hazel sapling stood. At its top waved a cluster of nuts.
“Bend down to me, O hazel sapling,“ begged the Kid. “I can’t reach your nuts so high in the air. If you will give me just one, I shall skip—with joy!“
The sapling laughed: “No, no! My nuts are still too green.“
Next a Rabbit came from the glade and offered to trade his slice of bread for a nut. Then a Lamb ran up from the clearing with a small loaf to exchange for one. And lastly a darling Fawn came from the grove with a muffin. But the little shoot repeated to them all: “No, no! My nuts are still too green.“
The Kid bleated: “Maa, maa, maa. Then we shall bend you to the ground!“ And the animals, enraged at the sapling’s selfishness, pulled at its slender trunk. But the Kid
