Lootie.
There were goats too about, over the mountain, and when the little
kids
came, she was as pleased with them as with the flowers. The goats
belonged to the miners mostly--a few of them to Curdie's mother; but
there were a good many wild ones that seemed to belong to nobody.
These
the goblins counted theirs, and it was upon them partly that they lived.
They set snares and dug pits for them; and did not scruple to take what
tame ones happened to be caught; but they did not try to steal them in
any other manner, because they were afraid of the dogs the hill-people
kept to watch them, for the knowing dogs always tried to bite their
feet. But the goblins had a kind of sheep of their own--very queer
creatures, which they drove out to feed at night, and the other
goblin-creatures were wise enough to keep good watch over them, for
they
knew they should have their bones by and by.
CHAPTER XVIII
Madhuri Noah
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