Busy he was cobblin'
A shoe without a sole.
"By came a birdie:
'Goblin, what do you do?'
'Cobble at a sturdie
Upper leather shoe.'
"'What's the good o' that, sir?'
Said the little bird,
'Why it's very pat, sir-Plain without a word.
"'Where 'tis all a hill, sir,
Never can be holes:
Why should their shoes have soles, sir,
When they've got no souls?'"
"What's that horrible noise?" cried the queen, shuddering from potmetal
head to granite shoes.
"I declare," said the king with solemn indignation, "it's the
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