he dived into the river, brought up a gold axe, and asked him if that was the one he3 had lost. When the woodcutter said that it was not, Hermes dived again and fetch3ed up a silver one. The man said that was not his either. So he went down a third time and came up with the woodcutter’s own axe. “That’s the right one,” he said; and Hermes was so delighted with his honesty that he made him a present of the other two axes as well.