said the Goblin . ' I never expected this ! I must stay with the student . ' The little fellow thought it over , for he was a sensible Goblin . Then he sighed , ` The student has no jam ! ' And on that he went down to the grocer again . And it was a good thing that he did go back , for the tub had nearly worn out the tongue . It had read everything that was inside it , on the one side , and was just going to turn itself round and read from the other side when the Goblin came in and returned the tongue to its owner . But the whole shop , from the till down to the shavings , from that night changed their opinion of the tub , and they looked up to it , and had such faith in it that they were under the impression that when the grocer read the art and drama critiques out of the paper in the evenings , it all came from the tub . But the Goblin could no longer sit quietly listening to the wisdom and intellect downstairs . No , as soon as the light shone in the evening from the attic it seemed to him as though its beams were strong ropes dragging him up , and he had to go and peep through the key-hole . There he felt the sort of feeling we have looking at the great rolling sea in a storm , and he burst into tears . He could not himself say why he wept , but in spite of his tears he felt quite happy . How beautiful it must be to sit under that tree with the student , but that he could not do ; he had to content himself with the key-hole and be happy there ! There he stood out on the cold landing , the autumn wind blowing through the cracks of the floor . It was cold -- very cold , but he first found it out when the light in the attic was put out and the music in the wood died away . Ah ! then it froze him , and he crept down again into his warm corner ; there it was comfortable and cosy . When Christmas came , and with it the jam with the large lump of butter , ah ! then the grocer was first with him .
But XXXXX the middle of the night the Goblin awoke , hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters -- people hammering from outside .
for from in inside on out that till under with