In The Princess and the Goblin, Chapter 18, the goblins’ creatures caused Curdie to become lost. Which sentence from the text pr
ovides the strongest evidence of this?
The Princess and the Goblin, Chapter 18
He knew by the size of the ball that he was getting pretty near the last of it, when he began to feel a tugging and pulling at it.
He knew by the size of the ball that he was getting pretty near the last of it, when he began to feel a tugging and pulling at it.
He stood for a little, weighing his battle-axe in his hand as if it had been the most precious lump of metal—but indeed no lump of gold itself could have been so precious at the time as that common tool—then untied the end of the string from it, put the ball in his pocket, and still stood thinking.
He stood for a little, weighing his battle-axe in his hand as if it had been the most precious lump of metal—but indeed no lump of gold itself could have been so precious at the time as that common tool—then untied the end of the string from it, put the ball in his pocket, and still stood thinking.
These grew, as he went on, to a scuffling and growling and squeaking; and the noise increased, until, turning a second sharp corner, he found himself in the midst of it, and the same moment tumbled over a wallowing mass, which he knew must be a knot of the cobs’ creatures.
These grew, as he went on, to a scuffling and growling and squeaking; and the noise increased, until, turning a second sharp corner, he found himself in the midst of it, and the same moment tumbled over a wallowing mass, which he knew must be a knot of the cobs’ creatures.
It was clear that the cobs’ creatures had found his axe, had between them carried it off, and had so led him he knew not where.
