Reward for Honesty story

Reward for Honesty 

There  lived a woodcutter in the village. One day he was cutting wood near a river.  Suddenly his ax fell into the river. the river.......................

Reward for Honesty 

There  lived a woodcutter in the village. One day he was cutting wood near a river.  Suddenly his ax fell into the river. The river was very deep. The woodcutter did not know how to swim or dive. So he was sitting there sadly. Then a wonderful thing happened. A beautiful fairy appeared before the woodcutter. The fairy asked the woodcutter what had happened to him. The woodcutter informed the fairy of the incident. He informed her that he was a poor woodcutter and he earned his living by cutting wood. It was out of his ability to buy a new one. Hearing all these, the fairy felt pity on him the fairy dived into the river water and come out with a gold ax. She asked the poor woodcutter  whether it was his ex. The poor man replied in the negative the fairy dived again into the river water and raised her hand with a silver ax. She asked the woodcutter whether it was his ex.The woodcutter replied int the negative again. The fairy instantly dived into water and rose up with the ax which the woodcutter had lost. She asked. The fairy was surprised to see the honesty of the poor woodcutter. She rewarded him with all the three axes of gold, silver and iron.