Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic

ISBN-13: 9781606649121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 132 str.

William Elliot Griffis

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These they would bring to their queen, or with them richly adorn themselves. Thus the Mermaid Queen and her maidens made a court of beauty -- famed wherever mermaids and merrymen lived. And they often talked of human maids. "How funny it must be to wear clothes " said one. "Well, I should like to be a real woman for a while, just to try it, and see how it feels to walk on legs," said another, rather demurely -- as if afraid the other mermaids might not like her remark. Out rang a lusty chorus, "No No Horrible What an idea Who wouldn't be a mermaid?"