The Fisherman and his Wife (6)

The Fisherman and his Wife (6)

  The fisherman's heart was heavy, and he did not like going.
  He said to himself, " It is not right. "
  Still, he went down.

  When he came to the sea, the water was all violet and dark blue, and dull and thick, and no longer green and yellow, but it was still smooth.

  So he stood there and said ;
  " Once a prince, but changed 
    you be
    Into a flounder in the sea.
    Come ! for my wife, Isabel,
    Wishes what I dare not tell. "

  " What does she want now ? " asked the flounder.

  " Ah ! " answered the Fisherman, half ashamed, " she wants to live in a great stone castle. "

  " Go home ; she is standing before the door, " said the Flounder.

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