Mercury and the Woodcutter

"My beautiful axe is lost."
"I will find it for you."
"You have been very honest. Because of your honesty, I am going to give you the golden snd silver axe as well."

"There is nothing I hate more than dishonesty. Because you have been so dishonest, i will not give you this axe or your own."

One day, a woodcutter decuded to rest by a riverbank. He put his axe on the ground, and it slipped into the river. Lucky for the woodcutter, the river god Mercury wasn' t far away...

This story is about a honest woodcutter. he is hard worker and honest! I think that he is very kind. I resperct a person like him. I also thought that the river god, Mercury is wonderful. He can mention that bad things is bad. I sometimes can't say this words. I want to be like him. Dishonest woodcutter had lost his axe and his credit from everyone when he told a lie. I learned that we will lost everything when we tell lies.

Mercury and the Woodcutter
Based on a fable by Aesop
by Carmel Reilly and Jane Wallence-Mitchell
YL = 1.1-1.9
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