The Woodcutter and Death

1. The Woodcutter and Death Retold by Sailendra Galami

2. One day a Woodcutter was cutting some tree down then he cut more then what he was had to cut, then there was a big pile of log then he said ‘’I wish I was died so I can lift them easily’’ when suddenly someone was standing next to him he was frighten then the person said ''did you call me '' then the Woodcutter ran to his house so quick.

3. The next morning the Woodcutter went back in the woods when he was cutting the tree the person was standing there, when he pointed at the old woman at the pool suddenly the old woman drowned and died the Woodcutter found out he was Death then he said ''when am I going to died'' Death replied ''5 years of a day'' he was scared.

4. ''What do you mean'' said the woodcutter, Death replied ''five years till you die''. Then the Woodcutter spent five years to make a wood house when Death arrived the Woodcutter showed Death around then he got to the tree which the Woodcutter cut a hole he told death to see up there Death climbed up then the Woodcutter trapped Death in the woodhouse and then he ran home.

5. Time pasted people got ill and hungry, people didn’t die until one day the lord Shiva appeared at the Woodcutter house and said ''do you want to live?'' the Woodcutter found out it was time to pasted a way lord Shiva helped the Woodcutter get up.

6. Lord Shiva and the Woodcutter went to the forest then he opened the hole and released Death, then he said ''thank you lord Shiva'' then lord Shiva said ''from know on you will be invisible'' so Death became invisible so people could not see when he went to kill people and then the Woodcutter died.