A fantasy illustration of a girl holding a book, walking by a river with fishing traps, as a boy emerges from the water.

His daughter was curious. She wondered why her father did not want her to see the trap. So she disobeyed him. She walked down to the river toward the trap. Finally, all but the last small fish had been cleaned. The man turned to pick up the little salmon. He saw that, where the fish had been, there was now a little boy. “I’ll be back in a little while,” she called to her father. See more