The Fir-Tree and the Bramble
By Aesop
A FIR TREE said boastingly to the Bramble: You are useful for nothing at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.
The Bramble made answer: You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.
Moral:
Better poverty without care, than riches with.
Source Book
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York
