tAtUES  quot; an extraordinary place!quot; cried Lucy. quot;All tone animals -and  people too!

    Its -its like a museum.”

    quot;; said Susan, quot;Aslans doing something.”

    o tone lion and breat ing a moment  as if  cs tail -and breatone d from to it. tall stone dryad urned rapidly aside to deal one rabbit on , and  ruso taurs. But at t moment Lucy said,  quot;O the lion.”

    I expect youve seen someone put a ligco a bit of ne an unlit fire. And for a second noto ice a tiny streak of flame creeping along t  noer Aslan one  lion looked just tiny streak of gold began to run along e marble  back t spread - to lick all over  of paper - ters ill obviously stone, tone folds rippled into living  red mouto life.

    ed one of tc sig bounding after  and  jumping up to lick his face.

    Of course turned to follo t t t about atues o life.

    tyard looked no longer like a museum; it looked more like a zoo.  Creatures er Aslan and dancing round ill  he  crowd.

    Instead of all t deadly yard  sides of centaurs, indigo yrs, yelloockings and crimson ransparent green, and the larch- girls in green so

    brig it  yelloead of tampings, ss, er.

    quot;O; said Susan in a different tone. quot;Look! I   safe?”

    Lucy looked and sa Aslan  breat of tone  giant.

    quot;Its all rig; sed Aslan joyously. quot;Once t are put rig of him will follow.”

    quot;t  exactly ,quot;  it oo  late to do anyt it noo s legs. No later ed ;Bless me! I must  dratted little itc  on t by my feet it ; But o o explain o repeat it all again so t at last ood, till op of a ack and  toucedly to Aslan, beaming all over  ugly face. (Giants of  any sort are nos are good-tempered t ten to one  you  ;No; said Aslan. quot;Look alive, everyone. Up  stairs and doairs and in my ladys chamber! Leave no corner unsearched. You never  know where some poor prisoner may be concealed.”

    And into terior tes t dark, y old castle ec at once, quot;Dont forget ttle air - O smells in  for trap-doors - Up  more on t; But t of all ,  quot;Aslan! Aslan! Ive found Mr tumnus. Oh, do come quick.”

    A moment later Lucy and ttle Faun le catue and erested in all so tell him.

    But at last tcress le stood empty  and t spring  air flooding into all the whole  crowd of

    liberated statues surged back into tyard. And it   someone (tumnus, I t said,  quot;But o get out?quot; for Aslan  in by a jump and tes ill locked.

    quot;tll be all rig; said Aslan; and t t. quot;; ;s your name?”

    quot;Giant Rumblebuffin, if it please your ; said t, once more  touching his cap.

    quot;ell t Rumblebuffin,quot; said Aslan, quot;just let us out of this, will  you?”

    quot;Certainly, your  ; said Giant Rumblebuffin.  quot;Stand es, all you little uns.quot; trode to te   es creaked at t blo t tackled toes of craso  of t t cleared it anding in t dry, grim, stony yard, to see trees and sparkling streams of t, and t and beyond the sky.

    quot;Blo all in a muck s,quot; said t, puffing like t rail;Comes of being out of condition. I suppose neit- you?”

    quot;Yes, I ; said Lucy, standing on tip-toes and holding her handkerchief  up as far as she could reach.

    quot;t; said Giant Rumblebuffin, stooping do moment  Lucy got rat for s up in mid-air bets finger and t just as sting near arted and  t ly back on ttering, quot;Bless me! Ive picked up ttle  girl instead. I beg your pardon, Missie, I t you he handkerchee!”

    quot;No, no,quot; said Lucy laug; is!quot; time o get it  but it  to  a saccablet o you, so  t o and fro across  red face, s;Im afraid its not muco you, Mr Rumblebuffin.”

    quot;Not at all. Not at all,quot; said t politely. quot;Never met a nicer   kno.”

    quot; a nice giant ; said Lucy to Mr tumnus.

    quot;O; replied t;All t  respected of all t families in Narnia. Not very clever, per t  an old family. itraditions, you knoone.”

    At t Aslan clapped ogether and called for silence.

    quot;Our days  yet over,quot; ;and if tco be  finally defeated before bed-time  find ttle at once.”

    quot;And join in, I ; added t of taurs.

    quot;Of course,quot; said Aslan. quot;And no keep up - t is,  c ride on t is,  lions, centaurs, unicorns, s and eagles. t come in front o smell out   yourselves.”

    And  deal of bustle and c pleased of  t  running about everyo be very busy but  really in order to say to everyone . quot;Did you

    means s  Aslan. No side, no stand-off- is meant ; At least  on saying till Aslan  s, and a  steadied  .

    ting ted into t out tle  first t nosing about in all directions. But t  and gave a bay. time lost after t. Soon  all ting animals  full speed  o treaked out for about  as t  only better because every noimes ter and faster t as t became easier and easier to follo  as to t curve in a narro metal.

    t of t once sood Peter and Edmund and all t of Aslans army figely  against tures ranger and more evil and more deformed. to be far  more of ters army - atues dotted all over ttlefield, so apparently tc s seem to be using it noone knife. It

    er sin - bot it so  Lucy  could  ers s pair re.

    On eacretc. hings were happening  wherever she looked.

    quot;Off my back, c; sed Aslan. And tumbled off. t sern lamp-post to tern  sea t beast flung e itced to. tcoget c t all ures leaxes, dogs eet  also crusaurs ers tired army cill t onset.