imney now she looks;
"I'll fetch you out," she cries;
But puff! the clever Peter blows
The soot down in her eyes.

[Illustration]

All filled with black out through the door
She hurries, howling still,
Just when the other ogresses
Are coming up the hill.
They stop, they stare, they quake with fear,
They stand appalled to see
This dreadful, hopping, howling thing
As black as black can be.

[Illustration]

And now pell-mell away they run;
But down the chimney place
The boys climb ere the ogress
Can clean her sooty face;
And when they're safely home again
They keep the master's rule,
And never, never play again
At truant from the school.

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Transcriber's Note

The word "nightcap" is spelled with and without a hyphen in the
text. Both spellings appear to have been in common use and have
not been altered.

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