“Am I to stay a fish all my life?” she asked the fish queen.
“Yes, but if you ever get out of the water to dry land you will turn back into a little girl,” said the queen.
Eriline grew to be a beautiful fish. One day she was out swimming when she heard her father’s voice and looking out she saw him in his boat with his fish net spread in the water. Then Eriline began to want her mother. She remembered what the queen had said about dry land. So she went near the boat and swam right into her father’s net. He pulled it up quickly and put Eriline into his fishbasket. “What a fine fish,” he said.
When dark came her father went home, and threw his nets out of the fish basket on to the shore. He took the fish out and laid them on the sand. Eriline turned again into his beautiful daughter and threw her arms around his neck.
“Oh, father, here I am, your little Eriline!” she cried. The mother came running to greet her child again, and they were all happy and thankful to be together again.
SNOWFLAKE
One must be on the lookout for deception, and not be misled by the words of pretended friends.