The Fisherman and His Wife--Page 3


	So he stood on the shore and said: "Once a prince, But changed you be Into a flounder in the sea. Come! for my wife Ilsebel, Wishes what I dare not tell." Then the flounder came swimming up and said,
"Alas!" said the man, "why should I go down there again?" "Why," said his wife "you caught him, and then let him go again, so he is sure to give you what you ask. Go down quickly."
The man did not like going at all, but as his wife was not to be persuaded, he went down to the sea. When he came there, the sea was quite green and yellow and was no longer shining.	"Alas!" said the man, "my wife says I ought to have kept you and wished something from you. She does not want to live any longer in the hut; she would like a cottage."