“You may laugh and cry and even shout,
Without ‘Thank you, Sir!’ you don’t get out!”
Then the dwarf began to laugh and cry and shout, for he was stuck fast in the rocking-chair, and he could not get out!
Now the chair was in earnest and it rocked as fast as it could down to a river and the dwarf cried,
“What are you about? What are you about?
If we rock in there, we will never get out!”
Splash! the chair went right into the water. It came up by and by and the little dwarf shouted,
“Thank you, thank you, please take me out,
Thank you, thank you, I’ll laugh and shout!”