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“Like it !”exclaimed Uncle Andrew.“Just look at the state I’m in.And it was my best coat and waistcoat,too.”He certainly was a dreadful sight by now:for of course,the more dressed up you were to begin with,the worse you look after you’ve crawled out of a smashed hansoncab and fallen into a muddy brook.“I’m not saying,”he added,“that this is not a most interesting place.If I were a younger man,now-perhaps I could get some lively young fellow to
come here first.One of those big-game hunters.Something might be made of this country.The climate is delightful.I never felt such air.I believe it would have done me good if-if circumstances had been more favourable.If only we’d had a gun.”
“Guns be blowed,”said the Cabby.“I think I’ll go and see if I can give Strawberry a rub down.That horse ‘as more sense than some ’umans as I could mention.”He walked back to Strawberry and began making the hissing noises that grooms make.
“Do you still think that Lion could be killed by a gun ?”asked Digory.“He didn’t mind the iron bar much.”
“With all her faults,”said Uncle Andrew,“that’s a plucky gel,my boy.It was a spirited thing to do.”He rubbed his hands and cracked his knuckles,as if he were once more forgetting how the Witch frightened him whenever she was really there.
“It was a wicked thing to do,”said Polly.“What harm had he done her ?”
“Hullo ! What’s that ?”said Digory.He had darted forward to examine something only a few yards away.“I say,Polly,”he called back.“Do come and look.”
Uncle Andrew came with her;not because he wanted to see but because he wanted to keep close to the children—there might be a chance of stealing their rings.But when he saw what Digory was looking at,even he began to take an interest.It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post,about three feet high but lengthening,and thickening in proportion,as they watched it;in fact growing just as the trees had grown.
“It’s alive too-I mean,it’s lit,”said Digory.And so it was; though of course,the brightness of the sun made the little flame in the lantern hard to see unless your shadow fell on it.