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about through. Let’s put the kettle there. That’ll make a nice cup of tea presently. Now I can have a little bit of a rest. Just look into the scullery,like good poppets,and tell me if the back door is open.”
“Yes,it is,”said Scrubb.
“That’s right. I always leave it open so as Puss can get in and out,the poor thing.”
Then she sat down on one chair and put her feet up on another.
“I don’t know as I mightn’t have forty winks,”said the giantess. “If only that blarney hunting party doesn’t come back too soon.”
All their spirits leaped up when she mentioned forty winks, and flopped down again when she mentioned the return of the hunting party.
“When do they usually comeback ?”asked Jill.
“You never can tell,”said the giantess. “But there;go and be quiet for a bit,my dearies.”
They retreated to the far end of the kitchen,and would have slipped out into the scullery there and then if the giantess had not sat up,opened her eyes,and brush