Every man rushed to his on, but there was nothing to be dohe monster was out of reach. “Shoot！ Shoot！” cried the Master Bowman, and veral obeyed, but the arrows glanced off the Sea Serpent’s hide as if it was iron-plated. Then, for a dreadful minute, everyone was still, staring up at its eyes and mouth and w where it would pounce.
But it didn’t pou shot its head forward across the ship on a level with the yard of the mast. Now its head was just beside the fighting-top. Still it stretched and stretched till its head was over the starboard bulwark. Then down it began to e—not onto the crowded deck but into the water, so that the whole ship was under an arch of rpent. And almost at ohat arch began to get smaller： indeed oarboard the Sea Serpent was now almost toug the Dawn Treader’s side.
Eustace （who had really been trying very hard to behave well, till the rain and the chess put him baow did the first brave thing he had ever done. He was wearing a sword that Caspian had lent him. As soon as the rpent’s body was near enough oarboard side he jumped on to the bulwark and began hag at it with all his might. It is true that he aplished nothing beyond breaking Caspian’s d-best sword into bits, but it was a fihing for a begio have done.