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They are as sharp as needles. If I look at you hard you'll shiver; if I bite you you'll squall; if I scratch you you'll bleed." The Grandmother of the Dolls looked at the big Black Cat long and hard. "Do I know you?" she asked. "I know you," replied the Black Cat. "What is your name?" she asked. "Billy-Billy Blackfoot." "It is time for you to go hunting," she said.
The Grandmother of the Dolls seized her cane and made a furious attack on Billy-Billy Blackfoot, but he leaped nimbly out of the way and the cane fell with a whack on the bald head of the Brown Doll. At this there was a tremendous uproar. The Brown Doll screamed: "Murder!"
Kurnalpi was known at first as "Billy-Billy," or as "The Tinker's Rush" the first name was supposed by some to be of native origin, by others to indicate the amount of tin used in the condensing plants "Billy," translated for those to whom the bush is unfamiliar, meaning a tin pot for boiling tea in, and other such uses.
Billy-Billy Blackfoot's tail swelled to twice its natural size; the hair-brush fell on the floor; the dustpan rattled; the shovel and tongs staggered out from the chimney-corner and rolled over on the hearth; the Dolls scrambled and scurried under the bed, and the little old woman whisked up the chimney like a spark from a burning log.
When Sweetest Susan raised up in bed to look around she saw Drusilla sitting on her pallet rubbing her eyes, but Billy-Billy Blackfoot was sitting by the fireplace washing his face as quietly as if nothing had happened. At first it seemed to Sweetest Susan that it had all been a dream, but presently she heard a small voice that came down the chimney: "Mr. Thimblefinger! Mr. Thimblefinger!
She wanted to get him out of the room. "I have found what I was hunting for," said Billy-Billy Blackfoot. "There's a rat gnawing in the pantry." "He'll be fatter when I catch him." "There's a piece of cheese in the dining-room." "It won't spoil until I eat it." "There's a pan of milk in the kitchen." "It won't turn sour till I drink it." "There's catnip in the garden."
"It will grow till I want it." The Grandmother of the Dolls then made a cross-mark on the carpet and waved her cane in the air. This was done to put a spell on Billy-Billy Blackfoot, but before the spell could work Billy-Billy made a circle by chasing his tail around. Then he glared at the little old woman and slowly closed one eye. This was too much.
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