The Three Chests By Nathaniel Hawthorne Listen to the story The Three Chests The Story of the Wicked Old Man of the Sea There was once an honest old farmer who had three daughters. His farm ran down to the shores of a deep lake. One day as he leaned over the water to take a drink, wicked old Wetehinen reached up from the bottom of the lake and clutched him by the beard. “Ouch! Ouch!” the farmer cried. “Let me go!” Wetehinen only held on more tightly.” “Yes, I’ll let you go,” he said, “but only on this condition: that you give me one of your daughters for wife!” “Give you one of my daughters? Never!” “Very well, then I’ll never let go!” wicked…