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ard as he could,quite a number of people saw what he meant and rushed to both sides of the ship to do the same.And when,a moment later,the Sea Serpent’s head appeared again,this time on the port side,and this time with its back to them,then everyone understood.
The brute had made a loop of itself round the Dawn Treader and was beginning to draw the loop tight.When it got quite tight— snap ! —there would be floating matchwood where the ship had been and it could pick them out of the water one by one.Their only chance was to push the loop backward till it slid over the stern;or elseto put the same thing another wayto push the ship forward out of the loop.
Reepicheep alone had,of course,no more chance of doing this than of lifting up a cathedral,but he had nearly killed himself with trying before others shoved him aside.Very soon the whole ship’s company except Lucy and the Mousewhich was fainting was in two long lines along the two bulwarks,each man’s chest to the back of t