" And I am going to ask him to give me a heart, " said the woodman.

“我去请求他给我一颗心，”铁皮人说。

Then the woodman laughed, and said, 'How can that be?

樵夫笑道：‘怎么会这样呢？

When the ground hardened, he left his field work and became a woodman, felling and cutting up great quantities of logs.

当地面变硬时，他离开了他的田工作，成为一名樵夫，砍伐和切割大量原木。

So they went on into the wood, till at last they came to the place where the woodman was.

于是他们继往树林里走， 最后他们来到了樵夫所在的地方。

So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.

所以樵夫最后说他会以一大块金子的价格把汤姆卖给陌生人，他们付了价。

Hearing the cause of his sorrow, he dived to the bottom of the river, and bringing up a golden axe, asked the woodman if that was his.

墨丘利听到樵夫诉说难过的原因后，潜入，出一把金斧子，问樵夫这把是不是他的。

' as he wanted: and thus the horse went on just as well as if the woodman had driven it himself into the wood.

’如他所愿：马就这样继前行， 就好像樵夫自己把它赶进了树林一样。

One day, as the woodman was getting ready to go into the wood to cut fuel, he said, 'I wish I had someone to bring the cart after me, for I want to make haste'.

有一天，当樵夫准备去树林里砍柴时，他说：“我希望有人能在我后面拉车，因为我想赶快” 。

On another occasion I tried the experiment with a clever woodman of the place; but this man, who had handled his axe for forty years, could do nothing with the stone implement, and missed every stroke most ludicrously.

还有一次，我和当地一个聪明的樵夫一起做了这个实验。而这个用了四十年斧头的人，却对石器无能为力，一刀不中，可笑至极。