TURNED-UP TOES
Only the goblin shoemaker knows Why all little goblins have turned-up toes. Tippity-tappit, he hammers away Working all night-time and sleeping all day. ITe built his own house in a dark little wood, He made it as well as he possibly could. He made all the things to go in it himself. Pans for his fireplace and pots for his shelf. But though a hard-working and honest old man, He’d lost his tape-measure before he began. So nothing came out quite according to plan. He realised when it was rather too late That even his last wasn’t perfectly straight, In fact, to he brief, it was curved like a skate. “I will not be beaten,” he said as he stood In his wee crooked house In the dark little wood. He wrote on a board “Turned-up toes are quite new! “Be smart. Come and order a pair, if not two.” The goblins came running, all eager to buy, Each said to himself, “Well, I do look a guy “In these old-fashioned shoes—they’re so flat and so straight; “I must have some new ones—l’m quite out of date.” But only the goblin shoemaker knows Why little goblins have turned-up toes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 31
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201TURNED-UP TOES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 31
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