有教育意义的英文小故事,

One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood near a river.Suddenly his old axe (斧子) fell into the water.He felt very sad because he lost his only axe.Then all at once a beautiful fairy (仙女) came out and asked the man what was the matter.
"I have lost my axe,"he said."It fell into the water when I was cutting the wood."
The fairy showed him a gold (金) axe and asked,"Is this yours?"
"No,"said the man.
The fairy then showed him a silver (银) axe and asked again,"Is this yours?"
"No," again answered the man.
Then she showed him the old axe.
"Yes,that is mine," called out the happy man.
"I know it well enough," said the fairy,"I only wanted to see if you would tell me the truth,and now I'll give you the gold axe and the silver axe besides your own one."
从前有一个穷人正在河边砍一大块木头.突然他一不小心让他的旧斧子掉进了河里.他为此非常伤心因为他弄丢了他唯一的斧子.接着一个美丽的仙女出现了,问他发生了什么事情.
“我弄丢了我的斧子,”他回答说,“我用它砍木头的时候将它掉进了河里.”
于是仙女拿出一个金斧子问：“这是你的吗?”
“不是.”穷人说.
然后仙女有拿出一个银斧子问：“那这个是你的吗?”
“也不是.”穷人又回答.
于是仙女有拿出了一个旧斧子.
“哦,那是我的!”这个穷人高兴地喊.
“我知道这对你来说已经足够了,”仙女说,“我只想看看你是否能对我说实话,既然这样现在我要把金斧子、银斧子和你的旧斧子都送给你.”
这个故事是教育人们要诚实,不贪心,就会有好报.