text:  The innumerable band of dwarfs pulled the drollest faces folded their handikins and made the most lamentable gesticulations; but the speaker slid like a spider upon one of the threads which canopied over the cart down into Klaus's lap; thence he clambered up his jacket and mounted until he reached the youngster's hand--'Give me the shoes!' he exclaimed maliciously snatching and catching at the lost property