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Tonight, we'll read the next part too, the Princess and the Goblin, a children's fantasy novel published in 1872.

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When we left off, our little hero, Kurti, had been spying on the Goblins in their cave system under the mountains.

He stumbled upon the royal family and was captured and kept prisoner by them.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

The Goblins had left their fire burning and the light came through the tiny hole into Kurti's prison cell brighter than before.

Kurti thought it was time to try again if anything could be done.

But he found he could not get even a finger through the chink between the slab and the rock.

All he could do was to sit down and think again.

By and by, he came to the resolution to pretend to be sick.

In the hope they might take him out before his strength was too much exhausted to let him have a chance.

Meantime, until they should come again at night, there was nothing for him to do, but forage, new rhymes, now his only weapons.

He had no intention of using them at present, of course, but it was well to have a stalk, where he might live to want them,

and the manufacture of them would help to while away the time.

Chapter 20. Irene's Clue

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