A walnut tree grew by the roadside and bore a plentiful crop of nuts every year. Everyone who passed by pelted its branches with sticks and stones to knock down the fruit, and the tree suffered severely.
"It is hard," the tree cried, "that everyone who enjoys my fruit should thus reward me with insults and blows."
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