Possible Clues:

• Unfair treatment like uncooked timber
• Cheating in the greenwood
• Rough treatment for unseasoned wood
• Unfair treatment meted out in bleak wood
• If you get wood that's too fresh, you've been done
• Poor treatment of unseasoned wood
• Lead war badly, producing unfair situation
• Harsh treatment in bleak wood
• Fighting back, dish out unfair treatment
• Unfair treatment for unprocessed timber