sun-creature in the hole!"
"Stop that disgusting noise!" cried the crown-prince valiantly, getting
up and standing in front of the heap of stones, with his face toward
Curdie's prison.--"Do now, or I'll break your head."
"Break away," shouted Curdie, and began singing again--
"Once there was a goblin
Living in a hole,--"
"I really cannot bear it," said the queen. "If I could only get at his
horrid toes with my slippers again!"
"I think we had better go to bed," said the king.
"It's not time to go to bed," said the queen.
"I would if I was you," said Curdie.
"Impertinent wretch!" said the queen, with the utmost scorn in her
voice.
Madhuri Noah
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