Why they come so soft, I declare I haven't an idea.' 'Specially when your head's so hard, you know, father.' 'Yes my boy.

The goblin's glory is his head.

To think how the fellows up above there have to put on helmets and things when they go fighting! Ha! ha!' 'But why don't we wear shoes like them, father?
I should like it--especially when I've got a chest like that on my head.' 'Well, you see, it's not the fashion.

The king never wears shoes.' 'The queen does.' 'Yes; but that's for distinction.

The first queen, you see--I mean the king's first wife--wore shoes, of course, because she came from upstairs; and so, when she died, the next queen would not be inferior to her as she called it, and would wear shoes too.