A Ticket to Ride [antikvár]

The Greedy OakAt the edge of the forest grew an oaksullen, cantankerous, and greedy. He refused to share with anyone else. Once a field mouse came scampering up to him and said:"Let me have two of your acorns. I'll eat one, and the other I'll plant in a distant clearing, so that a little oak will grow there too."But how the oak berated her:"Get away from here while you're still in one piece! I won't give you any acornsthey're all staying with me!"Trembling with fear, the little mouse ran off and never came back again.From that time on, none of the forest animals dared to go near the oak. And so he lived, completely alone.Every now and then acorns would appear. After ripening, they would fall to the earth and there, beneath the oak's mighty crown, they would take root. The oak wanted all his coundess descendants to be right beside him. But things went badly for his descendants. There was not enough room for all the sprouts. They stifled one another and they died at a young age.The years went by. The oak grew old and began to decay, and one day during a storm a gust of wind brought him crashing to the ground. And so the greedy old oak died without leaving any successors