Long ago, there was a lovely forest. There were many beautiful trees in that forest with delicious fruits and fragrant flowers. One day, a man entered the forest with an axe-head in his hand. He looked at the beautiful trees and said, “Please help me. I need some wood.” The trees replied, “You seem to be a nice man. You can take wood from all of us!” The man took a stem from a tree and tied it to his axe’s head. This became the handle of his axe. After that the unsuspecting trees got a big shock. The man started chopping the trees one by one. The trees could only sigh and say, “Oh! If only we would not have helped this man. Looks can be deceptive.”
The Man and the Trees
