I think 'clue' is a mining term mentioned earlier in the book. Or maybe I'm thinking of 'gang?' Anyway, Curdie digs deep and strikes a rich vein of goblin in this chapter! Also, caveat emptor! Lots more terrible singing and perhaps the worst goblin accents ever are featured in this chapter!

This chapter contains my first and hopefully only disclaimer. MacDonald introduces the goblin prince in this chapter, and names him Harelip. It's an insulting name for people with cleft palates. I think it's supposed to be funny, but it's a nasty move. For the benefit of younger listeners I'm emphasizing that it's wrong to make fun of people for the way they look or sound. This isn't a Christian podcast per se, but MacDonald was a Christian writer. The hypocrisy stings more as a result.

The sources for our text are the cyber-scribes at gutenberg.org;   Our theme song is Jimbo’s Lullaby by Claude Debussy performed by the Riverside Wind Consort via musopen.org. Pleasant dreams.