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

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?"

• | Author: William Elliot Griffis
• | Publisher: Aegypan
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 132 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1606649124
• | ISBN-13: 9781606649121