One day a poor fisherman found in his net a little golden fish, which waved its fins about and moved its mouth, as if to beg him to let it go. The fisherman was no moved that he threw the fish back into the sea, even though; he would have earned a considerable sum of money.
‘You will see how grateful I am,’ called the fish from beside the boat, before disappearing back under the waves, ‘but you must never tell anybody what has happened.,
When the fisherman arrived home, he found that his miserable hut had been transformed into a fabulous castle and his wife was wearing a dress fir for a queen.
‘Where did all these riches come from?’ was the first thing the wife asked, when she saw her husband again.
‘Do not ask me, my wife, or everything will disappear again.’
But the woman would not give her husband a moment’s peace, and in the end he told her about the little castle turned back into a hut, and everything was the way it had been before, and the woman remained what she had always been, nosey and dissatisfied.
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