Chapter 7-- "The Mines."The story follows Curdie the miner boy for the first time, following him first home to his parents and then to his work in the mines, where Curdie decides to work overnight, trying to find out what the goblins want with the Princess Irene.

You are safe from my singing. For now.

  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.