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 in the middle of the night the Goblin awoke , hearing a great noise and knocking against the shutters -- people hammering from outside . The watchman was blowing his horn : a great fire had broken out ; the whole town was in flames . Was it in the house ? or was it at a neighbour 's ? Where was it ? The alarm increased . The grocer 's wife was so terrified that she took her gold earrings out of her ears and put them in her pocket in order to save something .
The XXXXX seized his account books .
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