Curdie remains in the Goblin royal family's trap and we get a good idea of how nasty they can be in this chapter. Parental advisory: intimations of cannibalism and use of the pejorative "Harelip" continue in this chapter. Also, my singing is hilariously bad this time. McDonald intentionally makes some of Curdie's improvised rhymes forced, and more power to him, but it makes it hard to keep up sometimes.

Dang, I love how Lydia doesn't want me to do any introductions. She's got this, y'all!

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.