 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 232 pages
...part with our tails, if there were any chance of recovering your own." MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN. upon in great distress, he sat down by the side of the...bringing up a golden axe, asked the woodman if that was his. Upon the man denying it, Mercury dived a second time, and brought up one of silver. Again... | |
 | Phrenology - 1866 - 404 pages
...But Mercury, whose river it was, taking compassion on him, appeared at the instant before him ; nnd hearing from him the cause of his sorrow, dived to...Woodman if that were his. Upon the man's denying it, Mercnry dived a second time, nnd brought np one of silver. Again the man denied that it was his. So... | |
 | Aesopus - 1881 - 464 pages
...grieved bitterly. Mercury appeared, and asked him what was the matter. Having heard the Man's story, he dived to the bottom of the river, and bringing up a golden axe, offered it to him. The Woodman refused to take it, saying it was not his. Mercury then dived a second... | |
 | Arthur Campbell Ainger - Latin language - 1885 - 196 pages
...compassion on him, approached aud asked him the cause of his sorrow. Hearing the state of the case, he dived to the bottom of the river, and bringing up a golden axe, asked the woodman if that were the axe he had lost. On his denying it, Mercury dived a second time and brought up a silver axe. Again... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1888 - 1180 pages
...distress he sat down by the side of the stream ' and lamented his loss bitterly ' but Mercury whos' river it was taking compassion on him appeared at...the bottom of the river ' and bringing up a golden ax asked the Woodman if that was his. Upon the mans' denying it Mercury dived the second time ' and... | |
 | Aesop, Jenny H. Stickney - Fables - 1891 - 232 pages
...Mercury appeared, and asked him what was the matter. Having heard the story of the man's misfortune, he dived to the bottom of the river, and, bringing up a golden axe', inquired if that were the one he had lost. dls-ap-peared' trans-pired' trans-port'-ed On his saying... | |
 | Louis Lubovius - German language - 1898 - 244 pages
...him. No sooner (kaum) had Hermes heard how the matter (Sache, f.) stood, than he dived to (auf, acc.) the bottom of the river, and bringing up a golden axe, asked the woodman if that were the axe he had lost. This the woodcutter denied, and the compassionate god dived a second time and... | |
 | Larkin Dunton, Augustus Hill Kelley - English language - 1907 - 206 pages
...heard him lament, and soon appeared, to ask him what was the matter. Having heard the man's story, he dived to the bottom of the river and, bringing up a golden axe, offered it to the woodman. The woodman was greatly surprised, but refused to take the axe, saying it... | |
 | Aesop - Animals - 1903 - 264 pages
...bitterly, when Mercury appeared, and asked him what was the matter. Having heard the Man's story, he dived to the bottom of the river, and bringing up a golden axe, offered it to him. " That is not mine," said the Woodman, and he refused to take it. Mercury dived... | |
 | Larkin Dunton - 1911 - 186 pages
...heard him lament, and soon appeared, to ask him what was the matter. Having heard the man's story, he dived to the bottom of the river and, bringing up a golden axe, offered it to the woodman. The woodman was greatly surprised, but refused to take the axe, saying it... | |
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Being thereupon in great distress, he sat down by the side of the stream and lamented his loss bitterly. But Mercury, whose river it was, taking compassion on him, appeared at the instant before him... 
