His eyes had grown quite small , like pigs ' eyes , his nose was huge and hung down over his mouth and chin , his throat seemed to have disappeared altogether , and his head was fixed stiffly between his shoulders . He was no taller than he had been seven years ago , when he was not much more than twelve years old , but he made up in breadth , and his back and chest had grown into lumps like two great sacks . His legs were small and spindly , but his arms were as large as those of a well-grown man , with large brown hands , and long skinny fingers . Then he remembered the morning when he had first seen the old woman , and her threats to him , and without saying a word he left the barber 's shop . He determined to go again to his mother , and found her still in the market-place . He begged her to listen quietly to him , and he reminded her of the day when he went away with the old woman , and of many things in his childhood , and told her how the fairy had bewitched him , and he had served her seven years . Hannah did not know what to think -- the story was so strange ; and it seemed impossible to think her pretty boy and this hideous dwarf were the same . At last she decided to go and talk to her husband about it . She gathered up her baskets , told Jem to follow her , and went straight to the cobbler 's stall . ` Look here , ' said she , ` this creature says he is our lost son . He has been telling me how he was stolen seven years ago , and bewitched by a fairy . ' ` Indeed ! ' interrupted the cobbler angrily . ` Did he tell you this ? Wait a minute , you rascal ! Why I told him all about it myself only an hour ago , and then he goes off to humbug you . So you were bewitched , my son were you ? Wait a bit , and I 'll bewitch you ! ' So saying , he caught up a bundle of straps , and hit out at Jem so hard that he ran off crying . The poor little dwarf roamed about all the rest of the day without food or drink , and at night was glad to lie down and sleep on the steps of a church .
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