The Golden Fish
Once upon a time, in a land far far
away lived a very poor couple in a shack not far from the edge of the sea.
Their only means of food was the fish that the old man caught in the sea. One
morning, as was his usual routine, the fisherman took his fishing net down to
the sea. But on this day something unusual happened, on this day the fisherman
caught the Golden Fish. The Golden Fish begged for the fisherman to spare his
life, and offered in return to grant the fisherman any wish he would like. But
the kindhearted fisherman asked for nothing, and returned the Golden Fish to
the sea. However, the fisherman's wife was not so kindhearted, she became irate
when he related the story to her, and sent him back to the sea to catch the
Golden Fish and to wish for a loaf of bread. The fisherman did as he was told,
he caught the fish and wished for a loaf of bread. When he returned home he
found a fresh baked loaf of bread on the table.
The fisherman's wife then decided
that she wanted more than just a loaf of bread. The next morning she sent her
husband to ask for a new. He returned home to find his wife with a new washtub,
but she still wasn't satisfied.
The following day the husband was
sent to the sea to find the magic fish and to wish for a new house. This wish
was, like the ones before it, granted to the fisherman. But the fisherman was
sent back again the next day to wish that his wife would become governor. This
time he returned home to find his wife dressed in riches and ordering about
servants. But the woman was still unhappy, and demanded to become Queen of all
the land.
Eventually, even being Queen of all
the land did not satisfy the wife, and so she sent her husband once last time
to the sea to catch the Golden Fish and to wish that she would be ruler of the
sea and of all creatures who live in it. The fisherman caught the fish, and
made the wish. However, when he returned home his wife was dressed in her old
rags, standing by her old broken washtub, inside the old shack, with not even a
loaf of bread to eat.
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