The Eicker Husband
Once upon a time, there was an ugly girl.
She was short and dumpy, had one leg a bit shorter than the other, and
her eyebrows met in the middle. The ugly girl gutted fish for a living,
so her hands smelt funny and her dress was covered in scales. She had no
mother or brother, no father, sister, or any friends. She lived in a
ramshackle house on the outskirts of the village, and she never
complained.
One by one, the village girls married the local lads,
and up the path to the church they'd prance, smiling all the way....
