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They lived in the neighborhood of a village in a castle near a pond as a mermaid. The castle was large and beautiful, 4-storey, with openwork lattices, inlaid, hung with baskets of flowers. And it was called beautifully: «Palace», in a foreign way, of course, but quite fashionable.

Once the mermaids went for a swim. And, I must say that the mermaid ponds, like those near Moscow, are clean and quiet. Well, everything is as usual with mermaids: they dived, splashed on each other, swam on mattresses.

And a local village boy, about 18 years old, watched all this from the elderberry bushes (he went over the raspberry-berry, and he froze by the elderberry bush). They come out of the water, several. They sit at the edge of it, build sandcastles. Looks, and one has a black tail! «Dirty or what?» – he did not believe his eyes at first. And so, it really was. She sat down with her friends, which means building a castle at the edge of the sand. Ponytail there pranks and pays attention to nothing. As if everything is as it should be with the tail.

They sat with their girlfriends and went to their apartments. And in the village, since then, the tale has gone about the fact that mermaids have black and even… dirty tails.