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<h2>THE WALNUT-TREE</h2>
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<p>A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a
plentiful crop of nuts. Every one who passed by pelted its branches
with sticks and stones, in order to bring down the fruit, and the
tree suffered severely. "It is hard," it cried, "that the very
persons who enjoy my fruit should thus reward me with insults and
blows."</p>
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