Honesty is the best policy

Once there lived a poor wood cutter in a certain village. He used to cut wood in the forest. One day he was cutting wood near a river. Suddenly, his axe fell into the river. The river was very deep. The wood cutter did not know how to swim or dive. So, he sat on the bank of the river sadly. Then a wonderful thing happened. A beautiful fairy appeared before the wood cutter. She asked the reason of his crying. The wood cutter told her the whole incident. She took pity on him and expressed her hope to help him. Then she dived into the river and came back after sometime with a golden axe. She showed it to him but the wood cutter refused to take it. So she again went under the water and brought a silver axe to him. But this time the wood cutter also refused to take it. Rather he said that his axe had made of iron not of gold or silver. The fairy again went under water and brought an iron axe. This time the wood cutter accepted it gladly. The fairy became very pleased to see the honesty of wood cutter. Then the fairy gave him the other two axes as a gift of his honesty.