Mercury and the Woodman

TITLE : MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN

AUTHOR : Aesop's Fables

NO.OF PAGES : 24

TYPE OF BOOK : Fiction

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

SYNOPSIS :

An honest, hard-working woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a deep river. In some way his hand slipped and his ax fell into the water and immediately sank to the bottom. Being a poor man who could ill afford to lose the tool by which he earned his livelihood he sat down and lamented 

MORAL:

Honesty is the best policy

GLOSSARY :

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