They went into another room which was full of polished instruments hard to uand—such as Astrolabes, Orreries, oscopes, Poesimeters, bus and Theodolinds—and here, when they had e to the window, the Magi said, “There. There are your Duffers.”
“I don’t e anybody,” said Lucy. “And what are tho mushroom things?”
The things she poi were dotted all over the level grass. They were certainly very like mushrooms, but far too big—the stalks about three feet high and the umbrellas about the same length from edge to edge. When she looked carefully she noticed too that the stalks joihe umbrellas not in the middle but at one side which gave an unbalanced look to them. And there was something—a sort of little bundle—lying on the grass at the foot of each stalk. In fact the longer she gazed at them the less like mushrooms they appeared. The umbrella part was not really round as she had thought at first. It was lohan it was broad, and it wide one end. There were a great many of them, fifty or more.
The clock struck three.
Instantly a most extraordinary thing happened. Each of the “mushrooms” suddenly turned upside-down. The little bundles which had lain at the bottom of the stalks were heads and bodies. The stalks themlves were legs. But not two legs to each body. Each body had a sihick leg right u （not to one side like the leg of a one-legged man） and at the end of it, a single enormous foot—a broad-toed foot with the toes curling up a little so that it looked rather like a small oe. She saw in a moment why they had looked like mushrooms. They had been lying flat on their backs each with its single leg straight up in the air and its enormous foot spread out above it. She learned afterward that this was their ordinary way of resting; for the foot kept off both rain and sun and for a Monopod to lie us own foot is almost as good as being in a tent.
“Oh, the fuhe funnies,” cried Lucy, bursting into laughter. “Did you make them like that?”
“Yes, yes. I made the Duffers into Monopods,” said the Magi. He too was laughing till the tears ran down his cheeks. “But watch,” he added.