 | Milton Chase Potter, Harry Jewett Jeschke, Harry Orrin Gillet - English language - 1917 - 386 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 ax, inquired if that was the one he had lost. On his saying that it was not his, Mercury dived a second... | |
 | Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 100 pages
...bitterly. Mercury appeared and asked him what was the matter. Having heard the Man's story, he dove 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 dove a second... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - Education - 1889 - 536 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... | |
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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... 
