More Children's LIt

Okay, Ann, here are the next two pages. And the end of the story on one page more, goes like this:

"For Alice my wife,

The plague of my life,

Hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!"

"What does she want now?" said the fish.

"Ah!" said he, "she wants to be lord of the sun and the moon."

"Go home," said the fish to your ditch again!" And there they live to this very day.

And the moral to the story is . . .