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THE QVEEN OF THE FISHES. 
 
 AN ADAPTATION IN ENGLISH 
 OF A FAIRY TALE OF VALOIS. 
 
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 NED ON THE WOOD CVT AND 
 
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 SOLD BY JOHN LANE.ATTHE 
 SIGN OF THE BODLEY HEAD 
 
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THE FISHES- 
 
 0 Q* Long agoan the days when the 
 Fairies were wont to prove the truth 
 of dreams to others besides the drea/ 
 mers,Altttk woodcutter lay sleeping 
 on the hank of A river .The sun moved 
 roun d from East toWest playing with 
 the shapes of the tree shadows on the 
 grass, driving them round, from We st 
 toEast&from short to londbttr the 
 boyj slept on. And he knew his dream 
 for it was always the same . £$ He 
 thought he wasaheatttift.il tree with 
 
J&The 
 
 Queen 
 of the 
 Fishes. 
 
 branches pa in/ 
 rmgitp^old/ 
 tipped ? to th<2 
 S K_y &. out to 
 the blue circle 
 where the 
 world ends. 
 
 And looking 
 
 down as he 
 stood- At the 
 wntex^s edffo, 
 he saw in the 
 depthsall the 
 fishes of the 
 nvei*theratch 
 minnows^ 
 fierce old pike & All the sreAtdc little 
 eels swiminiug $z wri^glvng Along 
 in gtvmd procession following a be«m/ 
 tiiul fish , her sides gleaming with sea ✓ 
 Iss of red red gold. As was his hah it 
 in the dreamhe cried ?Ah, the QUEEN 
 of the r ISHES ! >J And he awoke.4^ 
 He sat up rubbing his ejy es , dc. saw 
 that it was evening ccthat the fairies 
 
had already hung ovit beautiful tanners jy§Tli6 
 of clouds as < Tkoodnifht >> to the sun. Queen 
 The fairies do not need to dream, they of the 
 know it all when they are awake so they Fishes, 
 are always busy : . . .but the boy's bundle 
 Maggots was; small dz. as he. hurried 
 homeward, he thought more of the hea/ 
 
 ting he wu$t 
 expect from 
 his cruel tin/ 
 de. than of his 
 dream. . The 
 next day ,as 
 was his wont 
 m sat on the 
 trank of the ru 
 vet talking to 
 hts onlufriena 
 a little fisher/ 
 firl . Every 
 day her par/ 
 entssent her 
 ©ttt to wade 
 in the stream 
 fk, catch the 
 
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 little ftsH &the crayfish in the pools 
 l ock c?evic€S.^P>S'bg did nor mtnd cat-' 
 
 her b Arc toes, imt when she heard the 
 other poor little fish singing so sadly 
 in her basket her heart was touched 
 at she pt%t them hick in the river.Then 
 when she went home with almost 
 
Fishes 
 
J&TU 
 
 ouccn 
 
 of the 
 
 Fishes . 
 
 which see * 
 meet t q 
 them now 
 only dre/ 
 ams-Hvu 
 hidhgATcf 
 them ohm 
 before^ at 
 he never 
 tired of 
 
 neys ujv 
 der the 
 
 clear w<v 
 ter &. the 
 
 strange 
 creatures 
 
 thatdU of 
 
 her court wtsere sfrewas cstt^cn &, 
 how all the fishes swam about£i pla / 
 Bed hide & seek with Wr tn lit ovtt 
 the water 1 weeds /T he hc\j seemed 
 great &j[rand to the little R$her/gtrt 
 
 
when be told her about the colonies 
 of birds Who Wilt in his wide Watiehes 
 
 &wktf the winds said t© him as thejy 
 waved his boitghs in pirn/ or in storm 
 & how near his little topmost twigs we/ 
 re to the sun & how the tj could seethe 
 
wotW A\ round 
 &&B11* .these 
 
 talks did no? 
 fill her basket 
 or iircrease his 
 bundle &j n at 
 as th^y were 
 
 f f*n? to set- 
 err ajfAm Ary 
 ter their rest 
 his uncle ca/ 
 me towards 
 them out of 
 the wood. As 
 he approached 
 he shook a- 
 great s tick at 
 , s a them & ro«v 
 
 red out itikts iitrtj that they were 
 goodfornothing idlers .The children 
 Stood still in tetror.^^Von # said 
 he, seizing the boy & shaking him, 
 <4 were are ^yottr faggots ?»^ he re are 
 only these dead twigs >> answered 
 
 the boy** I could not breach. off the 
 
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Evtnf tmmdhes : it hint tKtm&tHey cried out 
 tome } ? His unde was duly the more angry . 
 *Iknow were you learn this nonsense 1 1 
 fmowtjeit^&t he turned with menacing 
 gestuTesto the^irl^yoir are thcjPUEEM 
 oftWFISHES rfh&nexi time you. are 
 changed I will s at a mtikcatd%ijou>k^ 
 A few d§yg after Ms rtnek. had used this 
 cruel threat the little wood /cut ter missed 
 
 tng,under the water,the amen of the ftskts 
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 Cleaving Ms work wandered down the 
 bank ©7 theriver.lt was as he had feared 
 Alter walking a l©nj way vainly peering 
 i nto the water lie came t© a net set like 
 an evil t sap to catch the pUEEH# As fit 
 -saw it, lie saw her yleamittg scales 
 
 
chased, m merty sport Inja tmmoeiw 
 He had 710 time to save herein she sw<mi 
 straight into the net. ..&£ the h&uitifwl 
 ftshwas Qittjghtl^Ahyou silly silhj 
 ftsh^he cried f wlnj dojyouplau 50 tec / 
 
 ttitck down there iny our water horned 
 5$But the poor fish could not speak to 
 him in sounds that he c oulol vtnclers / 
 land , sh e only 1© ©kcd. out of .her beaus 
 
 ■■■fa.. ■' 
 
 
tiftvl round waited The hoy 
 was wading try the river bank : &entjy 
 & cautiously jholdtnjf a droopingwtj/ 
 low bovigti he pvilledthe net towards 
 him & loosened its mottth.Ovvt popped 
 the^olden fish with a,glad wriggle of 
 her tail the boy sprang back to land, 
 just too late.His uncle had come tore/ 
 joke in her death, in time to see; her sw/ 
 im away.££>His rage knew no bounds. 
 Alibis veitgaancewas turned, against 
 
 her deliverer & seixitvg him he beat 
 him more mercilessly than ever.The 
 bqy was passively et the oldman could 
 not turn him here Ir there as he' wished 
 for his feet seemed fixed to theg’round. 
 
 At last when his unde paused for 
 breath the bqy spoke . He stood r tgid , 
 save that he threw back his head with 
 anew challenge in his eyes . 44 1 know 
 now,thatj^ou are not imu uncle Aon 
 will no longer have power to ilhtreat me. 
 
 The 
 
 'vixen 
 or the 
 
 Fishes. 
 

 4^Tbe 
 
 aucm 
 of the 
 
 Fishes . 
 
 IwAsaUttk, woodc uutte r,Utt notviam 
 tks 1C IMG of the FORESTS And as 
 be finished Speakvnfjbsfbrstbe man’s 
 
 bexmlAereAgeac ,tbe bq%f charged into 
 
 pstnd oak tree > with branches shoo* 
 ling upjfof d tipped to the suai& stret/ 
 ciiingwide 1 at ms to the boTtxon.^ For 
 awhile the dd ‘man stood awestruck* 
 but a dead leaf fluttering cbwntou/ 
 ched bis face <Sc aroused hirn.With a 
 yell he shook Ins stick at thetreefd w$ 
 ktll^owyet pis be tusked back into tbs 
 
Fishes* wood.whence he had come, to britig his 
 woodcutters to cut down, iz burn the 
 KING of the FOREST.^ In vain 
 did the trees interlace their bottghs t o 
 protect their monarch .One Inj one the 
 woodmen hewed down the twining 
 branches which formed a barrier befoie 
 them.<^Meanwhik the Q UEENof the 
 F I SHES went to the FAIRIES of 
 
 the rivers &z hogged them to save her frh 
 encLShe told them how the beautiful 
 forest was being destroyed so that the 
 land would he djy &barren& the river 
 springs dried up,& on heath# thisth^y 
 were persuaded to help her* ^»From the 
 three rivers rose walls of dense white wist 
 Scrolled over the country so that the -wood/ 
 wen could ©ply hear each others voices 
 &grope their way out of the forest by the 
 charing they had made.^They would 
 not listen to the cruel man’s errtreaties^the 
 fairieswere gainst him,th§y said, & who 
 
cm contend aga inst the 'fairies? So Wind I \The 
 &chokine thcu found their way home. Chteen, 
 
 a And so the KING of the, FOREST 3f t he 
 &the gVEEM of the FISHES were Fishes. 
 
 safe & wh ers. they were chafed gpitri, 
 they became a faun& a beautiful t^ymph, 
 
 & were inArrieol .Then they never more 
 became a tree £z a fish b at lived in the ©14 
 forest among the, elves & fairies * ciSih 
 
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