Mercury and the Workmen – English Fairy Tale

Mercury and the Workmen - learn English with fairy tales from Aesop's Fables with a podcast and vocabulary list Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1DIiivmgKU A 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. After he told him his misfortune, Mercury plunged into the stream, and, bringing up a golden axe, inquired if that were the one he had lost. ...