She spent a good deal of time sitting otle ben the stern playing chess with Reepicheep. It was amusing to e him lifting the pieces, which were far too big for him, with both paws and standing on tiptoes if he made a move he ter of the board. He was a good player and when he remembered what he was doing he usually won. But every now and then Lucy won becau the Mou did something quite ridiculous like nding a knight into the danger of a queen and castle bihis happened becau he had momentarily fotten it was a game of chess and was thinking of a real battle and making the knight do what he would certainly have done in its place. For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-lory charges, and last stands.
She spent a good deal of time sitting otle ben the stern playing chess with Reepicheep. It was amusing to e him lifting the pieces, which were far too big for him, with both paws and standing on tiptoes if he made a move he ter of the board. He was a good player and when he remembered what he was doing he usually won. But every now and then Lucy won becau the Mou did something quite ridiculous like nding a knight into the danger of a queen and castle bihis happened becau he had momentarily fotten it was a game of chess and was thinking of a real battle and making the knight do what he would certainly have done in its place. For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-lory charges, and last stands.
But this pleasant time did not last. There came an evening when Lucy, gazing idly astern at the long furrow or wake they were leaving behind them, saw a great rack of clouds building itlf up in the west with amazing speed. Then a gap was torn in it and a yellow sunt poured through the gap. All the waves behind them emed to take on unusual shapes and the a was a drab or yellowish color like dirty vas. The air grew cold. The ship emed to move uneasily as if she felt danger behihe sail would be flat and limp one minute and wildly the . While she was noting the things and w at a sinister ge which had e over the very noi of the wind, Drinian cried, “All hands on deck.” In a moment everyone became frantically busy. The hatches were battened down, the galley fire ut out, me aloft to reef the sail. Before they had fihe storm struck them. It emed to Lucy that a great valley in the a opened just before their bows, and they rushed down in it, deeper down than she would have believed possible. A great gray hill of water, far higher than the mast, rushed to meet them; it looked certaih but they were tosd to the top of it. Then the ship emed to spin round. A cataract of water poured over the deck; the poop and forecastle were like two islands with a fierce a between them. Up aloft the sailors were lying out along the yard desperate trying to get trol of the sail. A broken rope stood out sideways in the wind as straight and stiff as if it oker.