text:  I say gentlemen ' he continued turning to the Dwarfs 'are you aware that I am your king's godson and on the most intimate terms with him?' "'And that thy father made him fiddle himself to death?' answered the little one resentfully; 'and that thou hast grown a good-for-nought ready to bung up our whole gracious kingdom in a mouse-hole had'st thou thy will? Eh Master Nicholas?" 'Ah don't be too hard now! Recollect what your king did to my father and all that I have suffered for the last six months