Raking there, some fire to find among the ashes dead’
[That is, to light a candle to look for the lost needle],
‘Where there is not a spark so big as a pin’s head:
At last in a dark corner two sparks he thought he sees,
Which were indeed nought else but Gib our cat’s two eyes.
Puff, quoth Hodge; thinking thereby to have fire without doubt;
With that Gib shut her two eyes, and so the fire was out;
And by and by them open’d, even as they were before,
With that the sparks appeared, even as they had done of yore:
And even as Hodge blew the fire, as he did think,