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1There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all
2day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on the shore with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his
3line, all on a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water: and in drawing it up he pulled out a great fish.
4But the fish said, 'Pray let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince: put me in the water again, and let
5me go!' 'Oh, ho!' said the man, 'you need not make so many words about the matter; I will have nothing to do with a fish
6that can talk: so swim away, sir, as soon as you please!' Then he put him back into the water, and the fish darted
7straight down to the bottom, and left a long streak of blood behind him on the wave. When the fisherman went home to his
8wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and
9how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. 'Did not you ask it for anything?' said the wife, 'we live very
10wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.' The fisherman
11did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all
12yellow and green. And he stood at the water's edge, and said: 'O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will
13have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!' Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, 'Well, what is
14her will? What does your wife want?' 'Ah!' said the fisherman, 'she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have
15asked you for something before I let you go; she does not like living any longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little
16cottage.' 'Go home, then,' said the fish; 'she is in the cottage already!' So the man went home, and saw his wife
17standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. 'Come in, come in!' said she; 'is not this much better than the
18filthy pigsty we had?' And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a
19little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and
20chickens. 'Ah!' said the fisherman, 'how happily we shall live now!' 'We will try to do so, at least,' said his wife.
21Everything went right for a week or two, and then Dame Ilsabill said, 'Husband, there is not near room enough for us in
22this cottage; the courtyard and the garden are a great deal too small; I should like to have a large stone castle to
23live in: go to the fish again and tell him to give us a castle.' 'Wife,' said the fisherman, 'I don't like to go to him
24again, for perhaps he will be angry; we ought to be easy with this pretty cottage to live in.' 'Nonsense!' said the
25wife; 'he will do it very willingly, I know; go along and try!' The fisherman went, but his heart was very heavy: and
26when he came to the sea, it looked blue and gloomy, though it was very calm; and he went close to the edge of the waves,
27and said: 'O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a boon of
28thee!' 'Well, what does she want now?' said the fish. 'Ah!' said the man, dolefully, 'my wife wants to live in a stone
29castle.' 'Go home, then,' said the fish; 'she is standing at the gate of it already.' So away went the fisherman, and
30found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle. 'See,' said she, 'is not this grand?' With that they went
31into the castle together, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden
32chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and
33goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses. 'Well,' said the man, 'now we will live
34cheerful and happy in this beautiful castle for the rest of our lives.' 'Perhaps we may,' said the wife; 'but let us
35sleep upon it, before we make up our minds to that.' So they went to bed. The next morning when Dame Ilsabill awoke it
36was broad daylight, and she jogged the fisherman with her elbow, and said, 'Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we
37must be king of all the land.' 'Wife, wife,' said the man, 'why should we wish to be the king? I will not be king.'
38'Then I will,' said she. 'But, wife,' said the fisherman, 'how can you be king--the fish cannot make you a king?'
39'Husband,' said she, 'say no more about it, but go and try! I will be king.' So the man went away quite sorrowful to
40think that his wife should want to be king. This time the sea looked a dark grey colour, and was overspread with curling
41waves and the ridges of foam as he cried out: 'O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will,
42And hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!' 'Well, what would she have now?' said the fish. 'Alas!' said the poor man, 'my
43wife wants to be king.' 'Go home,' said the fish; 'she is king already.' Then the fisherman went home; and as he came
44close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets. And when he went in he saw
45his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six
46fair maidens, each a head taller than the other. 'Well, wife,' said the fisherman, 'are you king?' 'Yes,' said she, 'I
47am king.' And when he had looked at her for a long time, he said, 'Ah, wife! what a fine thing it is to be king! Now we
48shall never have anything more to wish for as long as we live.' 'I don't know how that may be,' said she; 'never is a
49long time. I am king, it is true; but I begin to be tired of that, and I think I should like to be emperor.' 'Alas,
50wife! why should you wish to be emperor?' said the fisherman. 'Husband,' said she, 'go to the fish! I say I will be
51emperor.' 'Ah, wife!' replied the fisherman, 'the fish cannot make an emperor, I am sure, and I should not like to ask
52him for such a thing.' 'I am king,' said Ilsabill, 'and you are my slave; so go at once!' So the fisherman was forced to
53go; and he muttered as he went along, 'This will come to no good, it is too much to ask; the fish will be tired at last,
54and then we shall be sorry for what we have done.' He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and
55muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water's
56brink, and said: 'O man of the sea! Hearken to me! My wife Ilsabill Will have her own will, And hath sent me to beg a
57boon of thee!' 'What would she have now?' said the fish. 'Ah!' said the fisherman, 'she wants to be emperor.' 'Go home,'
58said the fish; 'she is emperor already.'
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