The lines of the story of Mercury and the Woodman
- thank Mercury enough. Mercury was so pleased with the
- and he had no money to buy a new one. As he stood
- Mercury sprang back into the pool. This time he emerged
- and the Woodman was tired. The axe slipped and flew
- weeping, the god Mercury suddenly appeared and asked
- and so Mercury dived into the pool. He emerged with a
- despair. The axe was all he had to make a living
- golden axe. "Is this your axe?" "No," said the woodman.
- had been lost. The Woodman was so glad, he could not
- of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day
- out of his hands into the pool. The Woodman was in
- Woodman's honesty that he gave him all the three axes.
- with a silver axe. Again the Woodman said it was not his.
- what the trouble was. He told him what had happened,
- Mercury dived again and emerged with the axe that
The story of Mercury and the Woodman
- A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree at the edge
The Moral of this story is that “Honesty is the best policy”.
Drag each of the lines of the story and drop it into the correct order in the right hand grid.
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