The Fir Tree and The Bramble Bush

One day on the hilltop, the fir tree said to the bramble bush.

" Look at me. I am tall, strong and very beautiful. And what good are you? You are small, ugly and very untidy".

This made the bramble bush very unhappy because it knew that the fir tree was right.

The next day, two men carrying axes started to climb up the hill.

They started to chop down the fir tree. They wanted to make a new house.

" Oh dear! " cried the fir tree as it started to fall. " I wish I were a bramble bush. Then the men would not have cut me down."

The moral of the story is " Pride Comes Before a Fall".