1) A boy loved to play in an apple tree as a child, climbing it, swinging from its branches, and eating its apples. 2) As the boy grew older, he asked the tree for money, housing, a boat, and finally just a place to rest, and each time the tree provided what she could from her leaves, apples, branches, trunk, and finally a stump. 3) In the end, the boy sat down on the old stump to rest, and the tree was happy to provide for the boy even in her old age.