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   by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

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   Now, once the line was pulled
   deep under the water, and when
   he hauled it up he hauled a large
   flounder with it.

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          There was a fisherman and his wife
          who lived together in a little hut
          close to the sea, and the fisherman
          used to go down every day to fish;
          and he would fish and fish. 
      

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   The flounder said to him, "Listen,
   fisherman. I pray you to let me go;
   I am not a real flounder, I am an
   enchanted Prince.  What good will
   it do you if you kill me?  I shall not
   taste nice. Put me back into the
   water and let me swim away."


      
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          So he used to sit with his rod and
          gaze into the shining water;
          and he would gaze and gaze.
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