You would not believe the number of coughing sounds I edited out of this one. More throat-destroying goblin voices, and a very punchy-sleepy Lydia child in this episode, as Curdie follows the goblins into their tunnels and begins to understand their plans for the kingdom and the miners.

 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.