There was once a lad who wented to be a sailor but his mother would not lat him go to the sea. "Child,what do you know of sailing?"she would say. "You're a farmer's son, you know the turn of the seasons and the small of the soil but you do not know the sea."
Now the boy whose name was Jon,had always obeyed his mother. So he went about his farm work with a heavy heart but did not again mention the sea.
One day,he had been walking behind the plough. Hello all but ran over a tiny green turtle on a cold of dirt. He picked the turtle up and set it on his head where he knew it would be safe. When he was done with ploughing,Jon plucked the turtle from his head. To his utter surprise he found that it had turned into a tiny green fairy man that stood upon his palm and bowed.
"I thank you for your kindness,tell me your heart's desire and I'll grant it to you for saving my life," said the fairy. Jon bowed back but said nothing. Although his heart yearned to go out to the sea, he did not express his wish.
The green fairy man cloud read a heard easily so he said,"I see you wish to go sailing". Jon's face answered for hom.
"Since you put me on your head like a hat to keep me safe, I shall give you a different kind of cap in return, the kind sailors most desire. A cap full of wind. But there's one warning, on human hand will ever be able to take it off."
Them with a blink, the fairy man disappeared leaving a striped cap behind. Young Jon put the cap on his head and home to tell his mother.
"No good will come of the Wind Cap," she said. But the lad would have none of her caution. The very next day, putting on the sailor's cap, he ran off to the sea. On seeing a ship anchored near the shore,he requested the captain to take him along. Thus began his first ever sea voyage.