Then he asked the woodcutter whether the ax was his. When the man said no. Mercury dived a second time and brought back a silver one. Again the man said that it was not his. Finally, after diving a third time. Mercury produced the ax that the man had lost.
"That's minel" said the woodsman, delighted to have recovered his ax. And,so pleased was Mercury with the woodcutter's honesty that he promptly gave him the other two as presents.