Full text: Tales and fairy stories

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X, 
ANDERSEN'S TALES. 
sort of body; and especially as regards the care ghe 
took of the little princesses her grand-daughters. They 
were six pretty children; but the youngest was the 
prettiest of all.” Her skin was as clear and delicate ag 
a rose leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; 
but she had no feet any more than the others, and her 
hody ended in a fish’s tail. 
They were free to play about all day long in the 
vast rooms of the palace below water, where live 
flowers grew upon the walls. The large amber win. 
dows were opened, when the fishes would swim inwards 
to them just as the swallows fly into our houses when 
we open the windows; only the fishes swam right up to 
the princesses, ate out of their hands, and allowed 
themselves to be stroked. 
In front of the palace was a large garden with bright 
red and dark blue trees, whose fruit glittered like gold, 
and whose blossoms were like fiery sparks, as both 
stalks and leaves kept rustling continually. The ground 
was strewed with the most delicate sand, but blue as 
the flames of sulphur. The whole atmosphere was of 
a peculiar blue tint that would have led you to believe 
you were hovering high up in the air, with clouds 
above and below you, rather than standing at the 
bottom of the sea. When the winds were calm, the 
sun was visible; and to those below it looked like a 
scarlet flower shedding light from its calyx. 
Each of the little princesses had a plot of ground 
in the garden where she might dig and plant as 
she pleased. One sowed her flowers so as to come 
up in the shape of a whale; another preferred the 
figure of a little mermaid; but the youngest planted 
hers in a circle to imitate the sun, and chose flowers as 
ted as the sun appeared to her. She was a singular 
child, both silent and thoughtful ; and while her sisters 
were delighted with all the strange things that they 
obtained through the wrecks of various ships, she had 
never claimed anything—with the exception of the red 
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