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Description: | The story of 'Mercury and the Woodman' shows that honesty is always the best policy. A poor woodman, half way through felling a tree, drops his axe in the river. The god Mercury appears, plunges to retrieve it, and brings up a gold hatchet and then a silver one. Mercury offers them to the woodman. He refuses to accept them. He wants only his own old axe but instead is rewarded with all three! The illustration comes from Thomas Bewick's book, 'Fables of Aesop' (1818), p.49. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1818 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Thomas Bewick | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discoveringb... | Go to resource |
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