13
Joseph Jacobs
Well, when the girl heard this, she felt as if she could have
jumped
out of her skin for joy, but she didn’t say a word.
Next day that there little thing looked so maliceful when
he came for the flax. And when night came, she heard that
knocking against the window panes. She oped the window,
and that come right in on the ledge. That was grinning from
ear to ear, and Oo! that’s tail was twirling round so fast.
“What’s my name?” that says, as that gave her the skeins.
“Is that Solomon?” she says, pretending to be afeard.
“Noo, t’ain’t,” that says, and that came further into the room.
“Well, is that Zebedee?” says she again.
“Noo, t’ain’t,” says the impet.
And then that laughed and
twirled that’s tail till you couldn’t hardly see it.
“Take time, woman,” that says; “next guess, and you’re
mine.” And that stretched out that’s black hands at her.
Well, she backed a step or two, and she looked at it, and
then she laughed out, and says she, pointing her finger at it:
“NIMMY NIMMY NOT, YOUR NAME’S TOM TIT
TOT!”
Well,
when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and
away that flew into the dark, and she never saw it any more.
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