Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis Fiction Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic

<p><strong>These they would bring to their queen or with them richly adorn themselves.</strong> Thus the Mermaid Queen and her maidens made a court of beauty -- famed wherever mermaids and merrymen lived. And they often talked of human maids.</p><p>How funny it must be to wear clothes! said one.</p><p>Well I should like to be a real woman for a while just to try it and see how it feels to walk on legs said another rather demurely -- as if afraid the other mermaids might not like her remark.</p><p>Out rang a lusty chorus No! No! Horrible! What an idea! Who wouldn't be a mermaid?</p>