Ida's sister was kidnapped by goblins while Ida wasn't watching. Ida finds the goblins at a wedding and uses her magic horn to make them dance uncontrollably. Exhausted from dancing, the goblins return Ida's sister. Ida brings her sister safely home to her mother, as her father's letter had instructed Ida to watch over them while he was away at sea.

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4. When Papa was away at sea

5. and Mama in the arbor

6. Ida played her wonder horn to rock the baby So the goblins came. They pushed their way in and
still - but never watched. pulled baby out, leaving another all made of ice.

7. Poor, Ida never knowing, hugged the changeling and she The ice thing only dripped and stared, and Ida knew
murmured: “How I love you.” goblins had been there.

8. Now Ida in a hurry snatched her Mama’s yellow rain
“They stole my sister away!” she cried, “To be a cloak, tucked her horn safe in a pocket, and made a serious
nasty goblin’s bride!” mistake. She climbed backwards out her window i nto
outside over there.

9. Foolish Ida never looking, whirling by the robber caves,
heard at last from off the sea her Sailor Papa’s song:

10. “If Ida backwards in the rain would only turn
around again and catch those goblins with a tune
she’d spoil their kidnap honeymoon!”

11. So Ida tumbled right side round and found herself Oh how those goblins hollered and kicked, just
smack in the middle of a wedding. babies like her sister!

12. “What a hubbub,” said Ida sly, and she charmed them
with a captivating tune.
The goblins, all against their will, danced slowly first,
then faster until they couldn’t breath. “Terrible Ida,” the
goblins said, “we’re dancing sick and must to bed.”

13. But Ida played a frenzied jug, a hornpipe that makes Those goblins pranced so fierce, so fast, they quick
sailors wild beneath the ocean moon. churned into a dancing stream.

14. Except for one who lay cozy in an eggshell, crooning and
clapping as a baby should. And that was Ida’s sister.

15. Now Ida glad hugged baby tight. She followed the
stream that curled like a path along the broad meadow,

16. and up the ring round hill to her mama in the arbour,
with a letter from Papa saying,

17. “I’ll be home one day. And my brave, bright
little Ida must watch the baby and her mama
for Papa, who loves her always.” Which is just
what Ida did.