But before his breakfast was ready, Curdie jumped up so suddenly as
to
startle both his companions.
"Mother, mother!" he cried, "I was forgetting. You must take the
princess home yourself. I must go and wake my father."
Without a word of explanation, he rushed to the place where his father
was sleeping. Having thoroughly roused him with what he told him, he
darted out of the cottage.
CHAPTER XXIX
MASON-WORK
HE had all at once remembered the resolution of the goblins to carry
out
their second plan upon the failure of the first. No doubt they were
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