The Unwilling Mermaid

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Hello, this is Jana, and I'm here with a nice long story, so get comfortable and ready to listen.

It's about a girl and her adventures.

There are quite a few twists and turns and transformations.

As you can guess from the title, she becomes a mermaid.

Now, I know that many people think it would be a lot of fun to be a cute mermaid,

but this girl is not happy about what happens to her. Listen on to find out why. Once upon a time there was a teenage

girl who was far wiser than her parents, or at least that was her opinion.

She lived with her mother and father on a hill above a stream.

Often her mother would take a net and catch a fish for their supper.

One evening the girl saw that her mother's face was weary from work,

and the girl said,

Mother, I'll tell you what. Let me take the net down to the stream, and I'll catch our

supper in no time. The mother flopped down in a chair and readily agreed.

When the daughter picked up the net, she saw that there were some holes in it.

For goodness sake, she tutted.

This won't do at all.

No wonder it takes you so long to catch a fish every evening.

They can swim right through the holes. So she sat down and sewed up the gaps in the net.

Then she held up her work and was pleased with it.

There, she told her mother, that's a big improvement. You should have asked me to help you before.

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