“Yes.”
“Why, how do you learn so many?”
“We don’t have to learn ’em; we just know ’em naturally—as we know everything else we know at all.”
“My, that’s great! You don’t have to go to school, not study, nor anything, do you?”
“No.”
“I wish I was a goblin.”
“But you’re not,” laughed Fitz Mee; “and you never will be.”
“But I’ll be a man some day, and that will be better.”
“Maybe you will.”
“Maybe?”