WHAT HAPPENED ABOUT THE STATUES "WHAT araordinary place!" cried Lucy. "All those stone animals -and people too!
Its -its like a museum.」
"Hush," said Susan, "Aslans doing something.」
He was indeed. He had bounded up to the stone lion and breathed on him. Then without waiting a moment he whisked round - almost as if he had been a cat chasing its tail -and breathed also oone dwarf, which (as you remember) was standing a few feet from the lion with his back to it. Then he pounced on a tall stone dryad which stood beyond the dwarf, turned rapidly aside to deal with a stone rabbit on his right, and rushed on to two taurs. But at that moment Lucy said, "Oh, Susan! Look! Look at the lion.」
I expect youve seen someo a lighted match to a bit of neer which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a sed nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny streak of flame creeping along the edge of the neer. It was like that now. For a sed after Aslan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny streak of gold began to run along his white marble back then it spread - then the colour seemed to lick all over him as the flame licks all over a bit of paper - then, while his hindquarters were still obviously stohe lion shook his mane and all the heavy, stone folds rippled into living hair. Then he opened a great red mouth, warm and living, and gave a prodigious yawn. And now his hind legs had e to life.
He lifted one of them and scratched himself. Then, having caught sight of Aslan, he went bounding after him and frisking round him whimpering with delight and jumping up to lick his face.
Of course the childrens eyes turo follow the lion; but the sight they saw was so wonderful that they soon fot about him. Everywhere the statues were ing to life.
The courtyard looked no longer like a museum; it looked more like a zoo. Creatures were running after Aslan and dang round him till he was almost hidden in the crowd.
Instead of all that deadly white the courtyard was now a blaze of colours; glossy chestnut sides of taurs, indigo horns of unis, dazzling plumage of birds, reddy-brown of foxes, dogs and satyrs, yellow stogs and crimson hoods of dwarfs; and the birch-girls in silver, and the beech-girls in fresh, transparent green, and the larch- girls in green so
bright that it was almost yellow. And instead of the deadly silehe whole place rang with the sound of happy rs, brayings, yelpings, barkings, squealings, gs, neighings, stampings, shouts, hurrahs, songs and laughter.
"Oh!" said Susan in a different tone. "Look! I wonder - I mean, is it safe?」
Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant.
"Its all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Ohe feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.」
"That wasly what I meant," whispered Susan to Lucy. But it was too late to do anything about it now even if Aslan would have listeo her. The ge was already creeping up the Giants legs. Now he was moving his feet. A moment later he lifted his club off his shoulder, rubbed his eyes and said, "Bless me! I must have been asleep. Now! Wheres that dratted little Witch that was running about on the ground. Somewhere just by my feet it was." But when everyone had shouted up to him to explain what had really happened, and when the Giant had put his hand to his ear and got them to rep