Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis, Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic

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These they would bring to their queen, or with them richly adorn themselves. Thus the Mermaid Queen and her maidens made a court of beauty – famed wherever mermaids and merrymen lived. And they often talked of human maids.

How funny it must be to wear clothes! said one.

Well, I should like to be a real woman for a while, just to try it, and see how it feels to walk on legs, said another, rather demurely – as if afraid the other mermaids might not like her remark.

Out rang a lusty chorus, No! No! Horrible! What an idea! Who wouldn’t be a mermaid?