Chapter 6, "The Little Miner." Princess Irene meets her co-hero, Curdie, son of Peter the Miner and an overall delight. They're great together-- first he rescues her, then she rescues him, and maybe they're in love but they're too young to really grasp the concept or the problems. Irene also has her first near-encounter with the goblins, so this is where the plot really starts to kick in. Lots of good Lydia questions in this episode, so be prepared to go down a couple rabbit holes with us.

Sorry the music's so loud in the opening here. Not so bad if you're not wearing headphones, but still needs an adjustment. #learning

 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.