They were now loth to let her go, for, 'If the fairies see you,' they warned her, 'they will mischief you-stab you to death, or compel you to nurse their children, or turn you into something tedious, like an evergreen oak.' As they said this they looked with affected pity at an evergreen oak, for in winter they are very envious of the evergreens.
Orain, zuhaitzek ez zuten Maimie askatu nahi, ze "maitagarriek ikusten bazaituzte", abisatzen zioten, "min egiten saiatuko dira: sastagaiarekin hil edo euren umeen zaindaria izatera behartuko zaituzte, edo zerbait aspergarria bihurtuko zaituzte, esate baterako hosto iraunkorreko haritz". Eta hori esan bitartean, itxura hutsezko penaz begiratzen zioten hosto iraunkorreko haritz bati, neguan inbidia handia izaten baitiete hosto iraunkorreko zuhaitzei. -O!