Upon inquiry where all came from, the poor woodcutter told him his story, what happened in the wood, about the lamb and cloth, but did not mention a word about the club.
With this the woodcutter again went to the inn for the night, and showed the present to the innkeeper, as before.
A woodcutter had broken or lost the handle of his hatchet and found it not easy to get it repaired at once.
The prophet Moosa passed the Woodcutter one morning, who accosted him with "O Moosa!
The whole sum was expended on the best sorts of food, and the poor made acquainted with the rich treat the Woodcutter and his wife were cooking for their benefit.
While the wood-devil is his own master, the woodcutter is the slave of others.
And little by little he had told me that when he was twelve he had been put to work with a woodcutter who used to live in the house on the hill.
Time went on, the chestnuts were cooked, and the woodcutter had not yet come home.
Now, the old woodcutter had been saving a few coins from his meager earnings over the past three years in order to buy himself a new axe head in the spring.
Or we could cheat the king the next time he buys wood," said the woodcutter sarcastically.
The prince was indeed the baby given us by the woodcutter so many years ago," she said.
The lady briefly explained what had happened then and how she had immediately recognized the child when the woodcutterbrought it to the holy house.
So the woodcutter took the child to a house where several holy women lived and, after explaining the brief history of the child as he knew it, asked for their help.
Because the woodcutter was not far away at the time, he overheard the conversation.
As the woodcutterheard the angry, cursing, threatening reply of the rider, he ambled back to his hut to inform his wife of what was going on.
The little girl cried out, but at this moment the woodcutter burst open the door and rushed in.
The woodcutter did not see her, however, for he was asleep.
In the depths of the wood a woodcutterwas busy at his work.
When she came at last, and heard the story and saw the wolf lying there on the floor, she could not thank the woodcutter enough.
I then asked the old woodcutter who supplies our neighborhood with fuel.
The woodcutter led him to a shed at the back of the house, whither water had been conducted, through bamboo-pipes, from some neighboring stream; and the two men washed their feet.
The woodcutter guided him along a narrow path, leading up from the main road through mountain-forest.
The woodcutter came home late in the evening, and reproached his wife for leaving him all day without food.
On the third morning the woodcutter said to his wife, 'Send our youngest child to-day with my dinner.
But at daybreak the woodcutter started off into the wood, and this time asked his second daughter to bring his food.
Then the woodcutter came, and our family was split up.
A poor woodcutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the borders of a great forest.
Now the very next year, on St John’s Eve, the woodcutter was out in the forest cutting wood, when a great ugly troll stuck his head out of a tree near by.
Then he drew in his head and the tree closed together, and that was the last the woodcutter heard or saw of the trolls.
So off he set, after saying good-bye, and the good wishes of the woodcutter and his wife went with him.
In the morning the woodcutter and his family stole back to the house and peeped in at the window.
He opened the door and went in, and when he saw the feast the woodcutter had spread for the trolls his mouth fairly watered to taste of it.
He then told the woodcutter all that had happened in the night.
The woodcutterwas filled with joy and gratitude when he heard this.
The Woodcutter called the Star-Child, and said to him, "Here is thy mother, waiting for thee.
Very tenderly the Woodcutter took up the child and wrapped the cloak around it to shield it from the harsh cold, and he made his way down the hill to the village.
And on the morrow the Woodcutter took the curious cloak of gold and placed it in a great chest, and a chain of amber that was round the child's neck his wife took and set in the chest also.
And as the Woodcutter pressed on toward home, bewailing his lot, there fell from heaven a very bright and beautiful star.
THE STAR-CHILD Once upon a time a poor Woodcutter was making his way through a pine forest.
He was wise and merciful to all, and to the Woodcutter and his family he sent many rich gifts.
The Woodcutter with his son and his donkey are working in the forest, one evening, when a man asks them for directions to get out of the forest.
The old woodcutter sat in his cell, his spirits yet unbroken, and resolved, as at first, to adhere to the faith.
The woodcutter and his grandchildren listened earnestly to these and many other simple truths, as their guest went on reading and explaining portion after portion.
So the neighbour came in and asked the woodcutter to lend him his donkey, and said, "If I have a prosperous journey I will give you a few coppers.
Then were the neighbours not surprised when they saw that the woodcutter and his wife had a little money wherewith to buy food.
The woodcutter agreed, and he took the donkey and went to the place about which he had dreamed.
So the woodcutter said to his neighbours, "I found twenty reals on my doorstep this morning, and I and my wife are going to expend this money on travelling to a far country, where perhaps we will meet with better fortune than here.
So the wife opened the door, and the donkey walked in to where the woodcutter was lying in bed.
Then the woodcutter said to himself, "Behold these birds, they sit on the top of a tree with their mouths open, and God feeds them by bringing insects to fall into their mouths.
This is the story of the woodcutter who had trust in God, and it finishes here.
Illustration: The woodcutter and his donkey] They lived like that many months and many days, and they were very, very poor; till one day the woodcutter went out to the forest as usual to cut wood.
He wanted to go and search for it, and when he heard that the woodcutter was not going to work that day he thought that he would borrow his donkey to bring back the wealth, if his vision came true.
They all tried all they could to persuade the woodcutter to choose something else.
Subha Datta was quite dazed with all lie saw, but he was only an ignorant woodcutter and did not realize the value of the jewels and clothes.
Do you think the woodcutter was wrong to ask for the pitcher?
Then the fairies called out, one after the other, what they wanted for food, things the woodcutter had never heard of or seen, which made him quite discontented with what he had chosen for himself.
The woodcutter himself was broken-hearted, for he knew that he had done the mischief himself, and that if only he had resisted the temptation to drink the wine he would still have his treasure.
Do you think what the fairies said to the woodcutter was likely to comfort him about his wife and children?
Back they all had to go, the woodcutter watching till they were out of sight.
The woodcutter got all kinds of things he fancied for himself, but presently he began to wish he had his wife and children with him to share his wonderful meals.
The woodcutter could not say a word, but just gazed and gazed at them, till one of them said to him: "Who are you, and what are you doing in the very depths of the forest where we have never before seen a man?
Realizing the great debt he owed these sterling boys, the woodcutter felt that he ought to suppress the signs of suffering, at least as much as he possibly could.
Then he cried like the woodcutter in the prologue of the book of his dear master Rabelais, in order to make himself heard by the gentleman on high, Lord Paramount of all things, and obtain from Him fresh ideas.
The landscapist found the woodcutterin the forest, and the woodcutter seemed to him the ideal he was seeking; the peasant seemed to him to have the right to stand amid the furrows he had traced with his plough.
They met no one save an occasional woodcutter or charcoal-burner, and once they disturbed some robbers who were perhaps near the place of their hidden booty.
It was high noon before they chanced upon a woodcutter and his boy.
Why, the muscles in her arm wouldn't blush to be seen by the side of mine, and a woodcutter would have to cut deep into the forest before muscles stood out like these.
Rubezahl once betook himself to the Hirschberg, which is in the neighbourhood of his forest haunts, and there offered his services as a woodcutter to one of the townsmen, asking for his remuneration nothing more than a bundle of wood.
In the meanwhile the owner (who saw plainly that mischief was intended) kept calling upon the wondrous woodcutter to desist and go about his business.
Not for some minutes after issuing from the alley, did the earl recover from the shock he had received, and he was still leaning for support against a tree, when he was roused by the approach of the woodcutter and his dog.
His parting injunction to the woodcutter and his wife was to look out for him early in the morning, and not to breathe a word to any one that they expected him.
The woodcuttermade no remark, but seemed to think that the warning ought not to be neglected.
The officer feeling assured that all was lost, was about giving himself up to be devoured, when a woodcutter and his son emerged from the forest, armed only with knives or short daggers.
Next day, as the Woodcutter Chief was sitting in his house, the postman came to the door--Rat-tat.
So the Mouse King wrote a letter to the Woodcutter Chief, asking once more for his Camel, and in the letter he hid a little packet of snuff.
The footman brought in a letter, and the Woodcutter Chief opened it.
This house, or I should say hut, was situated at the entrance of the forest, and belonged to a poor woodcutternamed Japhet.
The woodcutter was startled when he saw such grand people, and hesitated about letting them into his cabin, big Melchior, however, settled the question by pushing back the door, then all entered.
At the third sound of the flute, the palace disappeared, and the woodcutter found himself alone sitting on the ruins of his hut, he and his wife clothed in rags.
All night he called aloud with lamentations for help, and a poor woodcutter being attracted, went to the pit's mouth and heard the story.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodcutter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: builder; craftsman; forester; ranger; woodsman
