The Fisherman and His Wife--Page 5


"Yes," answered her husband, "here we shall remain and live very happily." "We will think about that," said his wife. With these words they had their supper and went to bed.	I should like to live in a great stone castle. Go down to the flounder, and tell him to send us a castle."


All went well for a week or a fortnight,	"Ah, wife!" said the fisherman, "the cottage is quite good enough; why do we choose to live in a castle?" "Why?" said the wife. "You go down; the flounder can quite well do that." "No, wife," said the man, "the flounder gave us the cottage. I do not like to go to him again; he might be offended."

then the wife said: "Listen, husband, the cottage is much too small, and so is the yard and the garden; the flounder might just as well have sent us a larger house.