goblinet

Updated: May 15, 2025

Ambrose looked up at him with eyes full of the fondest affection. "What shall we call him, Pennie?" he said. "I want some name which has to do with a goblin." Pennie considered the subject with her deepest frown. "Would `Goblinet' do?" she said at length; "because, you see, he is so small." "Beautifully," said Ambrose. So the owl was called "Goblinet."

Amy Walton - The Hawthorns: A Story about Children