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'Ha!' thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the

window, 'after all I cannot prevent the sun rising.' At this

thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said,

'Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be lord of the sun

and moon.' The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought

frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed.

'Alas, wife!' said he, 'cannot you be easy with being pope?'

'No,' said she, 'I am very uneasy as long as the sun and moon

rise without my leave. Go to the fish at once!'

Then the man went shivering with fear; and as he was going down

to the shore a dreadful storm arose, so that the trees and the

very rocks shook. And all the heavens became black with stormy

clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and

you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up

like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. And

the fisherman crept towards the sea, and cried out, as well as he

could: