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He dug it open and found

He dug it open and found

By Maria TroublefieldPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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So early in the morning they took him up the mountain, and in the afternoon they carried the firewood they had cut to the city, sold it, and gave him a share of the money to take home. So every day Ha Mandin followed the woodcutter up the mountain to cut wood. One day, they went to the mountains to cut wood as usual. Suddenly it rained cats and dogs. They ran into a nearby cave for shelter. Ha Mantin sat alone in a corner, bored, and struck here and there with his axe. Suddenly, he heard a hollow echo from the place where he had been struck. Then he knew that the cave was empty. He dug it open and found a round stone slab with a ring. He cried out in surprise.

When the woodcutters heard the sound, they lifted up the SLATE with all their hands and found a door under it. When he opened the door, he saw a cave full of honey. So someone suggested, "This cave is full of honey. We must go home and fetch something to carry away the honey, and then carry it to the city and sell it. But for the moment we need to keep someone here to keep them safe."

"You know what? I'll stay here and keep watch while you go back and get your things." Ha Mandin volunteered to stay and guard the honey.

The woodcutters agreed with Mandin, and hurried home. They quickly brought POTS and pans of honey, filled them with honey, and carried them on donkeys into the city to sell them.

There was too much honey to fill at one time, so the woodcutters shipped and sold it again and again, while Ha Mandin remained in the cave. When it seemed to be over, one of them took a bad turn. He said to the others, "As it was Ha Mandin who first discovered the honey, if he insists on this point and insists on keeping all the money from the honey, there is nothing we can do about him. So if we don't get rid of him somehow, we'll all lose."

"How do we get rid of him?" Some people ask.

"That's easy. Just let him go down to the hole and fill it with the rest of the honey. When he went down, we slipped away, for he could not have got out without our help. So he would be effectively trapped inside, and no one would know his whereabouts except us."

When the woodcutters heard this idea, they all went back to the cave, and said to Ha Mandin, "We are very tired of this back and forth. Here, you go down and ladle the rest of the honey into the pot, and we will take care of you."

Ha Mantin, unwittingly, agreed. He went down and filled the honey quickly. Then he called up, "Boys, I've done my job. Join hands and pull me up." There was an echo in the cave, but no one answered. He called again, but still nothing. Then he knew that he had been deceived by the woodcutters. Terrified, he cried out for help. At last he sank down on the ground and prayed to God for his safe escape.

Besides, when the woodcutters had lured Ha Mandin into the cave, they quietly drove away with the donkey, loaded with honey. After they had sold all the honey in the city, they went to Ha Mandin's house in a fake, weeping voice to his mother:

"Old man, your son Ha Mandin was killed while going into the mountains to cut wood, and is dead. Dead people can not be revived, I hope you are old sorrow, take care of your health."

"What's going on?" Ha Mandin's mother did not believe what she was hearing.

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