“THE PLANE TREE”

Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.

“How useless is the Plane!” said one of them. “It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves.”

“Ungrateful creatures!” said a voice from the Plane Tree. “You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!”

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Source

“THE PLANE TREE” by Æsop. (c600BCE). AESOP’S FABLES for CHILDREN: ILLUSTRATED by MILO WINTER (2008 Unabridged Republication of The ÆSOP for CHILDREN (1919), Chicago: Rand McNally & Co.), p. 25. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. > Used in #AESOP’S FABLES for CHILDREN. [Bibliography]

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