Possible Clues:

• Small opening in shoe for lace
• One caught by hook, yet eel wriggles
• It is tiny place, but I am the landlord we hear
• The whole of it is small, by the sound of it
• A tape passes through it
• Small hole through which lace passes
• Small hole in a shoe
• Inspect obstruction in small opening
• Little thing peeping at you from a hole?
• Loophole allowed to observer