For days and days the water continued to rush from the doors and
windows
of the king's house, and a few goblin bodies were swept out into the
road.
Curdie saw that something must be done. He spoke to his father and
the
rest of the miners, and they at once proceeded to make another outlet
for the waters. By setting all hands to the work, tunneling here and
building there, they soon succeeded; and having also made a little
tunnel to drain the water away from under the king's house, they were
soon able to get into the wine cellar, where they found a multitude of
dead goblins--among the rest the queen, with the skin-shoe gone, and
the
stone one fast to her ankle--for the water had swept away the barricade
which prevented the men-at-arms from following the goblins, and had
greatly widened the passage. They built it securely up, and then went
back to their labors in the mine.
A good many of the goblins with their creatures escaped from the
inundation out upon the mountain. But most of them soon left that
part
of the country, and most of those who remained grew milder in
character,
Madhuri Noah
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