“Oh yes, your Honour,” said Golg. “Lovely places; what we call the Land of Bism. This try where we are now, the Witch’s try, is what we call the Shallow Lands. It’s a good deal too he surface to suit us. Ugh！ You might almost as well be living outside, on the surface itlf. You e, we’re all pnomes from Bism whom the Witch has called up here by magic to work for her. But we’d fotten all about it till that crash came and the spell broke. We didn’t knoe were or where we belonged. We couldn’t do anything, or think anything, except what she put into our heads. And it was glum and gloomy things she put there all tho years. I’ve nearly fotten how to make a joke or dance a jig. But the moment the bang came and the chasm opened and the a began rising, it all came back. And of cour we all t off as quick as we could to get down the crad home to our own place. And you e them over there all letting off rockets and standing on their heads for joy. And I’ll be very obliged to your Honours if you’ll soo me go and join in.”
“Oh yes, your Honour,” said Golg. “Lovely places; what we call the Land of Bism. This try where we are now, the Witch’s try, is what we call the Shallow Lands. It’s a good deal too he surface to suit us. Ugh！ You might almost as well be living outside, on the surface itlf. You e, we’re all pnomes from Bism whom the Witch has called up here by magic to work for her. But we’d fotten all about it till that crash came and the spell broke. We didn’t knoe were or where we belonged. We couldn’t do anything, or think anything, except what she put into our heads. And it was glum and gloomy things she put there all tho years. I’ve nearly fotten how to make a joke or dance a jig. But the moment the bang came and the chasm opened and the a began rising, it all came back. And of cour we all t off as quick as we could to get down the crad home to our own place. And you e them over there all letting off rockets and standing on their heads for joy. And I’ll be very obliged to your Honours if you’ll soo me go and join in.”
“I think this is simply splendid,” said Jill. “I’m so glad we freed the gnomes as well as ourlves whe off the Witch’s head！ And I’m so glad they aren’t really horrid and gloomy any more than the Prince really was well, what he emed like.”
“That’s all very well, Pole,” said Puddleglum cautiously. “But tho gnomes didn’t look to me like chaps who were just running away. It looked more like military formations, if you ask me. Do you look me in the face, Mr Golg, and tell me you weren’t preparing for battle?”