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?.
Aegypan Dutch fairy tales for young folks by william elliot griffis, fiction, fairy tales & folklore - country & ethnic, paperback/william elliot griffis
