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Workman, felling wood by the side of a river, let his axe drop by accident
into a deep pool. Being thus deprived of the means of his livelihood, he sat down
on the bank, and lamented his hard fate. Mercury appeared, and demanded the cause
of his tears. He told him his misfortune, when Mercury plunged into the stream,
and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost. On his
saying that it was not his, Mercury disappeared beneath the water a second time,
and returned with a silver axe in his hand, and again demanded of the Workman
“if it were his.” On the Workman saying it was not, he dived into the pool for the
third time, and brought up the axe that had been lost. On the Workman claiming
it, and expressing his joy at its recovery, Mercury, pleased with his honesty, gave
him the golden and the silver axes in addition to his own. The Workman, on his
return to his house, related to his companions all that had happened. One of them
at once resolved to try whether he could not also secure the same good fortune
to himself. He ran to the river, and threw his axe on purpose into the pool at the
same place, and sat down on the bank to weep. Mercury appeared to him just as he
hoped he would; and having learned the cause of his grief, plunged into the stream,
and brought up a golden axe, and inquired if he had lost it. The Workman seized
it greedily, and declared that of a truth it was the very same axe that he had lost.
Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused
to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.
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Mercury and the Workmen
HO N E S T Y
IS
T H E
BE S T PO L I C Y .