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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Kids
- Theme: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
- Subject: Fairy Tale / Folk Tale
- Published: 04/04/2021
THE OLD FISHERMAN
Born 1946, M, from Harrington NSW, AustraliaA Long long time ago over in the west coast of Ireland there was a small
fishing village. Most of the men were fishermen and some were farmers,
bakers, blacksmiths and many other things in the village .The fishermen
would take their boats out to sea in the deep water were the fishing was
good and cast their nets. When they returned they would keep some fish
for food and sell the rest in the market so that they could buy
different food like eggs, cheese and even chickens. They were all happy
in the village because no one was richer than anybody else, so they were
never jealous of anyone. At the end of the village was a old cottage
were a old fisherman and his wife lived, they had no children and every
morning when the sun came up he would get ready to go out fishing.Every
morning was the same, his wife would start to nagging him and she would not
stop complaining. You never catch lots of fish like the other men you
won't go out to the deep water were there is plenty of fish and get lots
of money at the market so I can buy nice things . This is what he had to
put up with every morning as he was siting there drinking his tea he
would think I have told her lots of times my boat is to old and it leaks
I can't go out to the deeper water I have to fish in close to the shore I
wish she would shut up.
So he would get up open the door to go down to his boat and he could
still here her nagging him .He rowed out to to were he always fished but then
changed his mind and rowed over to were there was a cave in the rocks
and cast his net. He set back in the boat and lit his old clay pipe
and started to think, when I get back home she will start to nagging me
and thought to himself I wish she would stop nagging me . As he was
just siting their daydreaming his boat began to rock because of the
weight in the net he had a hard time pulling it in ,when he opened the
net and looked at his catch there were a few fish and then he saw the
most beautiful colored fish he had ever seen, right away he put them in
his basket .He was just about to head home thinking about how much money
he would get at the fish market and that she would stop nagging him when
all of a sudden he heard a small voice saying " please let me go o
please let me go". He sat there scratching his head and looked all around
all he could see was one seagull flying over his head and he thought,
seagulls can't talk. Again he heard the tinny voice and when he looked in
the basket it was the beautiful fish talking she asked him "please put me
back in the sea or I will die, as I am the Queen of all the colored fish
in the sea and if you do I will grant you three wishes" . He thought for
a minute, fish can't grant wishes and he looked at how beautiful she was
and he could not let her die so he put her back in the sea she swam
straight to the bottom and when he looked down he could see all the
colored fish gather around her.
When he got home and his wife saw that he had only caught a couple of
fish she started to nag him this is all you got all the other fishermen
have gone to the market with lots of fish and you have brought just
enough for tea. He was sick of her nagging him so he told her about the
beautiful fish who was a Queen of all the beautiful fish and she had
granted him three wishes .The old woman could not stop laughing and
almost fell off her chair. You are nothing but a silly old fool fish can't
grant wishes .Then he said "I will make a wish" what would you like?" the
old woman was still laughing at him and said "I want the biggest fatest
sausage ever". So he wished for the biggest fatest sausage and there it was
sitting on the table, the old woman fell off her chair .When she got up
and touched the sausage to see if it was real she looked at the old man ,
"You fool you could have wished for chicken and ham and all the nice food
and all you wished for was a sausage and then she started nag nag nag.
..The old man just wanted her to stop so he wished the sausage would get
stuck in her throat to stop her nagging and there it was stuck in her
throat she ran around the room knocking over the table and chairs she
almost fell in to the fire. He grabbed the sausage but he could not pull
it out, he got his fishing knife out and cut it off but it grew back just
as big as before there was only one thing left he wished the sausage out
of her throat and then she fell to the floor, when she got up she could
not talk or shout just a small whisper.The next day when the doctor had
finished examining her he told him that her throat was so damaged that
she will never be able to talk again just a whisper
Two days later the old man was leaving to go fishing and when he got
outside he thought how quite it was he went back to fish the cave area
he put his net over the side set back lit his old clay pipe he looked
over the side right to the bottom and he could see the colored fish, he
looked up to the sky and said to him self I got my wish in the end.
THE OLD FISHERMAN(Fred Buchanan)
A Long long time ago over in the west coast of Ireland there was a small
fishing village. Most of the men were fishermen and some were farmers,
bakers, blacksmiths and many other things in the village .The fishermen
would take their boats out to sea in the deep water were the fishing was
good and cast their nets. When they returned they would keep some fish
for food and sell the rest in the market so that they could buy
different food like eggs, cheese and even chickens. They were all happy
in the village because no one was richer than anybody else, so they were
never jealous of anyone. At the end of the village was a old cottage
were a old fisherman and his wife lived, they had no children and every
morning when the sun came up he would get ready to go out fishing.Every
morning was the same, his wife would start to nagging him and she would not
stop complaining. You never catch lots of fish like the other men you
won't go out to the deep water were there is plenty of fish and get lots
of money at the market so I can buy nice things . This is what he had to
put up with every morning as he was siting there drinking his tea he
would think I have told her lots of times my boat is to old and it leaks
I can't go out to the deeper water I have to fish in close to the shore I
wish she would shut up.
So he would get up open the door to go down to his boat and he could
still here her nagging him .He rowed out to to were he always fished but then
changed his mind and rowed over to were there was a cave in the rocks
and cast his net. He set back in the boat and lit his old clay pipe
and started to think, when I get back home she will start to nagging me
and thought to himself I wish she would stop nagging me . As he was
just siting their daydreaming his boat began to rock because of the
weight in the net he had a hard time pulling it in ,when he opened the
net and looked at his catch there were a few fish and then he saw the
most beautiful colored fish he had ever seen, right away he put them in
his basket .He was just about to head home thinking about how much money
he would get at the fish market and that she would stop nagging him when
all of a sudden he heard a small voice saying " please let me go o
please let me go". He sat there scratching his head and looked all around
all he could see was one seagull flying over his head and he thought,
seagulls can't talk. Again he heard the tinny voice and when he looked in
the basket it was the beautiful fish talking she asked him "please put me
back in the sea or I will die, as I am the Queen of all the colored fish
in the sea and if you do I will grant you three wishes" . He thought for
a minute, fish can't grant wishes and he looked at how beautiful she was
and he could not let her die so he put her back in the sea she swam
straight to the bottom and when he looked down he could see all the
colored fish gather around her.
When he got home and his wife saw that he had only caught a couple of
fish she started to nag him this is all you got all the other fishermen
have gone to the market with lots of fish and you have brought just
enough for tea. He was sick of her nagging him so he told her about the
beautiful fish who was a Queen of all the beautiful fish and she had
granted him three wishes .The old woman could not stop laughing and
almost fell off her chair. You are nothing but a silly old fool fish can't
grant wishes .Then he said "I will make a wish" what would you like?" the
old woman was still laughing at him and said "I want the biggest fatest
sausage ever". So he wished for the biggest fatest sausage and there it was
sitting on the table, the old woman fell off her chair .When she got up
and touched the sausage to see if it was real she looked at the old man ,
"You fool you could have wished for chicken and ham and all the nice food
and all you wished for was a sausage and then she started nag nag nag.
..The old man just wanted her to stop so he wished the sausage would get
stuck in her throat to stop her nagging and there it was stuck in her
throat she ran around the room knocking over the table and chairs she
almost fell in to the fire. He grabbed the sausage but he could not pull
it out, he got his fishing knife out and cut it off but it grew back just
as big as before there was only one thing left he wished the sausage out
of her throat and then she fell to the floor, when she got up she could
not talk or shout just a small whisper.The next day when the doctor had
finished examining her he told him that her throat was so damaged that
she will never be able to talk again just a whisper
Two days later the old man was leaving to go fishing and when he got
outside he thought how quite it was he went back to fish the cave area
he put his net over the side set back lit his old clay pipe he looked
over the side right to the bottom and he could see the colored fish, he
looked up to the sky and said to him self I got my wish in the end.
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Radrook
04/05/2021Very interesting in a comicak sort of way. So of all the things that he could have wished for he spent one wish on producing a sausage, the next on getting it lodged in his wife's throat, and the final wish on getting it removed from his wife's throat? LOL!
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