THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright, Forbush, William Byron, and Hale, Edward Everett
"Flounder, flounder in the sea,
Prythee, hearken unto me:
My wife, Ilsebil, will have her own way
Whatever I wish, whatever I say."
"Now, what does she want?" asked the flounder.
"Alas," he said, "she wants to be Lord of the Universe."
"Now she must go back to her old hovel," said the flounder; "and there you will find her."
And there they are to this very day!