—Maybe it's a postman.

    Once upon a time, there was a swan (天鹅). She lived in a lake. A woman with her two daughters lived in a small house1 the lake. They lived a hard life. Sometimes they 2 enough money to buy food.

    The swan was 3 to see that. She4to help them. Every day she came to the woman's house and left a golden feather without 5anything. The woman sold the feather 6 bought food. She was happy because her life was 7than before.

    But the woman became greedy (贪婪). One day when the swan 8, the woman caught her and took all her golden feathers. Suddenly the golden feathers 9 the common (普通的) feathers.

    The swan said, "I came to help you, but you wanted to kill (杀) 10. I will never come back. Never be greedy." With these words, the swan disappeared (消失).

, there was a small village here.