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# The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife · page 3

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- [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/201/) — ‘Once a prince, but changed you be Into a flounder in the sea.
- [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/202/) — Come! for my wife, Ilsebel, Wishes what I dare not tell.’
- [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/203/) — ‘Well, what does she want now?’ asked the flounder.
- [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/204/) — ‘Alas!’ said he, ‘she wants to be a god.’
- [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/205/) — ‘Go home, then; she is sitting again in the hut.’
- [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/206/) — And there they are sitting to this day.
- [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/207/) — Grimm.

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