The Fir and the Bramble

During a heated argument with a bramble, a fir tree enumerated all the ways in which she was superior, in beauty and in usefulness to man. The bramble however simply reminded her that to be useful in house or ship building it was first necessary to be felled — something the bramble did not have to worry about.

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