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Then the fish came swimming to him, and said, 'Well, what is her

will? What does your wife want?' 'Ah!' said the fisherman, 'she

says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for

something before I let you go; she does not like living any

longer in the pigsty, and wants a snug little cottage.' 'Go home,

then,' said the fish; 'she is in the cottage already!' So the man

went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim

little cottage. 'Come in, come in!' said she; 'is not this much

better than the filthy pigsty we had?' And there was a parlour,

and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was

a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits;

and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.

'Ah!' said the fisherman, 'how happily we shall live now!' 'We

will try to do so, at least,' said his wife.