tap of a huge cask, filling and filling. Curdie cast one glance around
the place before commencing his attack, and saw in the farthest corner
a
terrified group of the domestics unwatched, but cowering without
courage
to attempt their escape. Amongst them was the terror-stricken face of
Lootie; but nowhere could he see the princess. Seized with the horrible
conviction that Harelip had already carried her off, he rushed amongst
them, unable for wrath to sing any more, but stamping and cutting
with
greater fury than ever.
"Stamp on their feet; stamp on their feet!" he shouted, and in a
moment
the goblins were disappearing through the hole in the floor like rats
and mice.
They could not vanish so fast, however, but that many more goblin feet
had to go limping back over the underground ways of the mountain
that
morning.
Presently however they were reinforced from above by the king and his
party, with the redoubtable queen at their head. Finding Curdie again
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