“We will think about that,” said the wife. With that they ate something and went to bed.

Everything went well for a week or a fortnight, and then the woman said, “Hark you, husband, this cottage is far too small for us, and the garden and yard are little; the Flounder might just as well have given us a larger house. I should like to live in a great stone castle; go to the Flounder, and tell him to give us a castle.”

“Ah, wife,” said the man, “the cottage is quite good enough; why should we live in a castle?”

“What!” said the woman; “just go there, the Flounder can always do that.”

“No, wife,” said the man, “the Flounder has just given us the cottage, I do not like to go back so soon, it might make him angry.”

“Go,” said the woman, “he can do it quite easily, and will be glad to do it; just you go to him.”