For some five days they ran before a southeast wind, out of sight of all lands and eiher fish null. Then they had a day when it rained hard till the afternooace lost two games of chess to Reepicheep and began to get like his old and disagreeable lf again, and Edmund said he wished they could have goo America with Susan. Then Lucy looked out of the stern windows and said：
“Hello！ I do believe it’s stopping. And what’s that?”
They all tumbled up to the poop at this and found that the rain had stopped and that Drinian, who was on watch, was also staring hard at something astern. Or rather, at veral things. They looked a little like smooth rounded rocks, a whole line of them with intervals of about forty feet iween.
“But they ’t be rocks,” Drinian was saying, “becau they weren’t there five minutes ago.”
“And one’s just disappeared,” said Lucy.
“Yes, and there’s another one ing up,” said Edmund.
“And nearer,” said Eustace.
“Hang it！” said Caspian. “The whole thing is moving this way.”
For some five days they ran before a southeast wind, out of sight of all lands and eiher fish null. Then they had a day when it rained hard till the afternooace lost two games of chess to Reepicheep and began to get like his old and disagreeable lf again, and Edmund said he wished they could have goo America with Susan. Then Lucy looked out of the stern windows and said：
“Hello！ I do believe it’s stopping. And what’s that?”
They all tumbled up to the poop at this and found that the rain had stopped and that Drinian, who was on watch, was also staring hard at something astern. Or rather, at veral things. They looked a little like smooth rounded rocks, a whole line of them with intervals of about forty feet iween.
“But they ’t be rocks,” Drinian was saying, “becau they weren’t there five minutes ago.”
“And one’s just disappeared,” said Lucy.
“Yes, and there’s another one ing up,” said Edmund.
“And nearer,” said Eustace.
“Hang it！” said Caspian. “The whole thing is moving this way.”
“And moving a great deal quicker than we sail, Sire,” said Drinian. “It’ll be up with us in a minute.”
They all held their breath, for it is not at all o be pursued by an unknown somethiher on land or a. But what it turned out to be was far wor than anyone had suspected. Suddenly, only about the length of a cricket pitch from their port side, an appalling head reared itlf out of the a. It was all greens and vermilions with purple blotches—except where shellfish g to it—and shaped rather like a hor’s, though without ears. It had enormous eyes, eyes made for staring through the dark depths of the o, and a gaping mouth filled with double rows of sharp fish-like teeth. It came up on what they first took to be a huge neck, but as more and more of it emerged everyone khat this was not its neck but its body and that at last they were eing what so many people have foolishly wao e—the great Sea Serpent. The folds of its gigantic tail could be en far away, rising at intervals from the surface. And now its head was t up higher than the mast.