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(Note: As an AI, I provide the text structure; you can save this page as a PDF by pressing Ctrl+P on your keyboard). How to use this PDF in the classroom: Reading Practice: Have students read the dialogue aloud.

"No," he said honestly. "That is not my axe. Mine was made of simple iron."

Once, in a small village, there lived a poor but very hardworking woodcutter. Every morning, he went into the forest with his old iron axe to chop wood, which he then sold in the market to feed his family. One afternoon, while he was cutting a branch near the edge of a deep, fast-flowing river, his hands slipped. His only axe flew into the water with a loud splash and sank to the bottom. The Honest Woodcutter Story with Pictures - Storybook