在海洋的遠處，水很藍很藍，你能象隔著玻璃一樣，看透它。水底深處有美麗的樹木和植物。這些樹木和植物離水面很遠，誰也看不到它們。魚兒在樹木間游來游去，就象鳥兒在天空飛翔一樣。海王的城市就在這個地方。
　　海王的的妻子死了很多年了，他的老母親照顧他。她非常喜愛海王的六個孩子。她們也愛她們的祖母。這六個小孩都是美麗的公主。最小的公主最美麗，她的眼睛象海一樣藍，她的身體像玫瑰一樣白。不過，她和姐姐們一樣，沒有腿。她的上半截象一個姑娘的身體，下半截卻象一條魚的身體。
　   六個公主常常整天在海王王宮的大廳里游玩。這些大廳墻壁周圍長滿了鮮花。窗戶開著的時候，魚兒會游入室內，就象鳥兒會飛進我們的房間一樣。不過魚兒比鳥兒勇敢，它們游到小公主跟前，吃她們手里的食物。 
    在海王宮殿前面有一個很大的花園，里面長滿了紅色的和藍色的植物。這些植物上的花朵象燃燒著的太陽。花園中閃耀著藍色的光芒，你會以為這是在空中，而不是在海底。在這個大花園里，每位小公主都有一個自己的小花園，她們可以栽種自己最喜歡的花卉。最年幼的公主在她的花園里種上紅色，靠近這些花，又種了一棵紅樹。她一點兒也不象她的姐姐們。

      Far out in thesea the water is very, very blue. You can see through it like glass. Far down in the water there are beautiful trees and plants. These trees and plants are so far from the top of the water that no one can see them. Fishes go in and out of the trees just like birds. This is the place where the Sea King’s city is.

　　theSea King’s wife died many years before, so his old mother looked after him. She loved the Sea King’s six children very much, and they loved their grandmother, too. These six children were beautiful princesses. The youngest princess was the most beautiful: her eyes were as blue as the sea and her body was white like a rose. But, like all her sisters, she had no feet. The top of her body was like a girl’s body; and the rest of her body was like the body of a fish.

　　thesix princesses often played all day in the big rooms inside the Sea King’s house. Beautiful flowers GREw out of the walls on all sides of them. When the windows were opened, fishes would go into the rooms just like birds come into our rooms. But the fishes were braver than birds They went up to the little princesses to eat food from their hands.

　　In front of theSea King’s house there was a large garden full of red plants and blue plants. The flowers of these plants were like the burning sun. There was a blue light over the garden; you would think that you were up in the sky — not down in the sea.

　　Each of thelittle princesses had her own little garden inside the large garden. They could plant the flowers, which they themselves liked the most. The youngest princess planted red flowers in the garden, and she planted a red tree near the flowers. She was not at all like her sisters.