7 short stories that Pisces will love. Bulfinch Thomas

she too came to be fifteen.

      "Now I'll have you off my hands," said her grandmother, the old queen dowager. "Come, let me adorn you like your sisters." In the little maid's hair she put a wreath of white lilies, each petal of which was formed from half of a pearl. And the old queen let eight big oysters fasten themselves to the princess's tail, as a sign of her high rank.

      "But that hurts!" said the little mermaid.

      "You must put up with a good deal to keep up appearances," her grandmother told her.