Reading Notes: Aesop Winter Part B
Mercury and the Woodman
A woodman was in the forest trying to chop down a tree when he accidentally dropped the axe in the water after a long tiring day of chopping. He cried bitterly without his axe because it was his source of income and his life line. He didn't have enough money to buy a new one. Mercury heard his cries and dove deep in the water to retrieve his axe but instead pulled out a gold axe. The woodman denied that it was his and Mercury then pulled out a silver which the woodman also turned down and then finally, Mercury pulled out the one that the woodman lost originally and he happily accepted. Mercury gladly gave him all 3 to keep for his honesty. Other people in town had heard about his fortune and started hiding their axes in the bushes and forest and pretending like they had lost their axes and called out to Mercury to help them find their axes and once again, Mercury offered them the gold one first and they tried to take it but Mercury instead hit them with the axe and they ended up losing their original axes too because they were gone when they tried to look for them. When retelling the story, I plan to change the main item from an axe to something different to make the story a little more modern.
A woodman was in the forest trying to chop down a tree when he accidentally dropped the axe in the water after a long tiring day of chopping. He cried bitterly without his axe because it was his source of income and his life line. He didn't have enough money to buy a new one. Mercury heard his cries and dove deep in the water to retrieve his axe but instead pulled out a gold axe. The woodman denied that it was his and Mercury then pulled out a silver which the woodman also turned down and then finally, Mercury pulled out the one that the woodman lost originally and he happily accepted. Mercury gladly gave him all 3 to keep for his honesty. Other people in town had heard about his fortune and started hiding their axes in the bushes and forest and pretending like they had lost their axes and called out to Mercury to help them find their axes and once again, Mercury offered them the gold one first and they tried to take it but Mercury instead hit them with the axe and they ended up losing their original axes too because they were gone when they tried to look for them. When retelling the story, I plan to change the main item from an axe to something different to make the story a little more modern.
Mercury offering the golden axe to the woodman: Nano Science
Bibliography. Aesop's Fables by Milo Winter; link to the reading online
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