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Title: The pink fairy book
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, ed
Subjects: Tales
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ut he did notcome home that day nor the following one, so that allbelieved that he had perished out at sea. On the thirdday, however, Basmus came to shore again and had hisboat full of fish, so big and fat that no one had ever seentheir like. There was nothing the matter with him, andhe complained neither of hunger nor thirst. He had gotinto a fog, he said, and could not find land again. Whathe did not tell, however, was where he had been all thetime; that only came out six years later, when peoplegot to know that he had been caught by a mermaid outon the deep sea, and had been her guest during the threedays that he was missing. From that time forth he wentout no more to fish ; nor, indeed, did he require to do so,for whenever he went down to the shore it never failedthat some wreckage was washed up, and in it all kinds ofvaluable things. In those days everyone took what theyfound and got leave to keep it, so that the smith grewmore prosperous day by day. 1 Translated from the Danish.
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114 HANS, THE MERMAIDS SON When seven years had passed since the smith wentout to sea, it happened one morning, as he stood in thesmithy, mending a plough, that a handsome young ladcame in to him and said, Good-day, father; my motherthe mermaid sends her greetings, and says that she hashad me for six years now, and you can keep me for aslong. He was a strange enough boy to be six years old, forhe looked as if he were eighteen, and was even bigger andstronger than lads commonly are at that age. Will you have a bite of bread ? said the smith. Oh, yes, said Hans, for that was his name. The smith then told his wife to cut a piece of breadfor him. She did so, and the boy swallowed it at onemouthful and went out again to the smithy to his father. Have you got all you can eat? said the smith. No, said Hans, that was just a little bit. The smith went into the house and took a whole loaf,which he cut into two slices and put butter and cheesebetween them, and this he gave to Hans. In a while th

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