Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Walnut-tree

by attr. Æsop

 

THE WALNUT-TREE.

A Walnut-tree standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit. The passers-by broke its branches with stones and sticks for the sake of the nuts. The Walnut-tree piteously exclaimed, "O wretched me! that those whom I cheer with my fruit should repay me with these painful requitals!"