Far out in the ocean is the water so blue, like the leaves on the prettiest cornflower and as clear, as the purest glass. But it is very deep. Deeper than any anchor reaches. Many church spires must be placed on top of each other to reach from the bottom up over the water. Down there lives the sea people.That they with the slightest movement of the water stir as if they were l i v i n g. All the fish, big and small, glide between the branches. Like up here the birds in the air.Now one must not at all think that there is only the naked white ocean bottom (technically "sand bottom"); no. There grows the most wondrous trees and plants that are so pliant in stalk and leaves.The little mermaid
