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105h e a r t h e m . H e r grandmother called the little birds fishes, or she would not have understood her; for she had never seen birds.%u201cWhen you have reached your fifteenth year,%u201d%u2022 said the grandmother, %u201cyou will have permission to rise up out of the sea, to sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships are sailing by; and then you will see both forests and towns.%u201d%u2022In the following year, one of the sisters would be fifteen: but as each was a year younger than the other, the youngest would have to wait five years before her turn came to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, and see the earth as we do. However, each promised to tell the others what she saw on her first visit, and what she thought the most beautiful; for their grandmother could not tell them enough; there were so many things on w h i c h t h e y w a n t e d information. None of them longed so much for her turn to come as the youngest, she who had the longest time to wait, and who was so quiet and thoughtful. Many nights she stood by the open window, looking up through the dark blue water, She talks with grannyShe peers up at he world above.