Year: 1875

the inst to do 50 was grander than all the
rest, who said shs was princess. and the
rest were maidens. They were friends At


once, and they danced on the beach and


surg and played: and the Princess told


Ripple about her home under the sea,


where big dismonds grew on the trees


and jewels hung ike rain-drops from


every bush. Little Ripple heard it all,


saying hardly word, she wondered so.
Then the Princess begged her to go down


to her home with them, where these
charming things were and, though she
thought dearly of the fisherman
and his wife, she remembered they were
poor, and asked the Princess if, were she
to 60 with her, she might not, now and
then, come back and bring them bushel
or so of diamonds. This the Princess
promised, and Little Ripple said she


would 60.


So the Princess called up her dolphin
that drew her chariot, and they all got in
and went down into the sea. She passed
right by where the fisherman sat in his
boat, and the car touched his line, when
he pulled it up, thinking fish bad bitten
at his bait. Down they went further and
further. Big fish swan up and put their
noses in the car; but the Princess raped
them with her whip, and they went
away.


Soon they came to the kingdom under
the sea and then Ripple opened. her
eyes at the sights she saw. The houses
were spangled with gems and we're lighted
with diamonds as big as pumpkins. There |
were beautiful gardens and orchards,
forests of coral trees, and vines bearing
the rarest flowers. The King, father Of
the Princess, welcomed little Ripple and
told her that he had often heard her
singing on the beach. She had a grand |
room given in the palace, With leave to
60 where she pleased and the fisherman
had good lot of fish for his hook every
day.


Soon she got acquainted with all the
better class of fishes, and enjoyed herself
very much. Several times she sent
servant up with basket of Jewels for the
fisherman, but never heard from them,
and after she had been there six months,
she began to grow tired. She wanted to
be on the sandy shore again, to see the
sunshine and see her dear friends. She
was, indeed, homesick, and when the
Princess did not know it, she would go out
and lie down on the bank of seaweed and
cry herself to sleep.


One day, when she was very sad, she
stole away, and had just cried herself
into an uneasy slumber, when she heard
in her nap the sound of the fsherman's
voice, calling to her. cripple [! Ripple y
the voice said, as if the speaker were
choking with grief. cripple Ripple
Where are you, my pearl Of the sea, my
dear little girl ?"


This time he called so loud that she |
awoke, and rose up from among the long
grasses that hid her, right on the shore |
she had left so long ago! And there were
the fisherman and his wife and the cat and
bird, and very glad were they when they
saw her.


"Where is the Princess ?" said Ripple,
as soon as they would let her speak, they |
kissed her so.


"Who ?" asked the fisherman, much |
surprised.


'sWhy, the Princess of the Sea-" said
she. "An | did you get the diamonds
sent you p


They hardly knew what to say but
told told her, at last, that she had fallen
asleep among the deep grass on the shore,
and had perhaps dreamed the wonderful
Thing which she had seen.


She lived to be real blessing to the
fisherman and his wife when they grew
old and the old wife always said that
she was an angel from heaven, that came
by water.