JUST as the Mother was going to make the tea, she heard a funny, faint voice from the tea-pot, crying:  
“Oh, please don’t scald me with the boiling water! Take me out! Take me out!”
 
The Mother, greatly astonished, peeped into the tea-pot—it was one which she had not used for some time—and saw there a queer little man, dressed all in green, with a green cap upon his head.
 
“How did you get into my tea-pot?” asked she.
 
“A cruel Fairy put me here,” replied the little man; “please, oh, please take me out!”
 
 
The Mother took him out, and placed him upon the table. How delighted the children were to see him round and round, taking tiny from their cups, and from their plates!
 
“Is it a doll, Muvver?” asked Baby.
 
“A doll, indeed!” exclaimed the little green man; “I am no doll! Did you ever see a doll walk, or hear a doll talk? I am a man!” And he stood on tip-toe and straightened himself............