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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)41. THE AX AND THE TREES When a man had made an axe, he asked the trees to give him a handle made
of the hardest wood. The other trees selected the wood of the wild olive.
The man took the handle and fitted it to his axe. Then, without a moment's
hesitation, he began to chop down the trees' mighty branches and trunks,
taking whatever he wanted. The oak tree then said to the ash, 'It serves
us right, since we gave our enemy the handle he asked for!'  Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002. NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
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