The Fisherman and his Wife (8)

The Fisherman and his Wife (8)

  So she dug her elbows into his side and said : " Get up, Husband, and look out of the window. Could we not become the king of all this land ? Go down to the Flounder and tell him we choose to be king. "

  " Ah, Wife ! " replied her husband, " why should we be king ? I certainly don't want to be king. "

  "Well, " said his wife, " if you don't want to be king, I will be king. Go down to the Flounder ; I will be king. "

  So the Fisherman went.
  " It is not right ! It is not right, " he thought.
  He did not wish to go, yet he went.

  When he came to the sea, the water was a dark grey colour, and it was heaving against the shore.

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

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

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