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ld be provided. The Queen’s foolish speech,however,produced excellent results,for Puddleglum and Scrubb were at once picked up by gigantic gentlemen-in-waiting,and Jill by a gigantic maid of honour,and carried off to their rooms.
Jill’s room was about the size of a church,and would have been rather grim if it had not had a roaring fire on the hearth and a very thick crimson carpet on the floor. And here delightful things began to happen to her. She was handed over to the Queen’s old Nurse,who was,from the giants’ point of view,a little old woman almost bent double with age,and,from the human point of view,a giantess small enough to go about an ordinary room without knocking her head on the ceiling. She was very capable, though Jill did wish she wouldn’t keep on clicking her tongue and saying things like“Oh la,la !Ups-a-daisy”and“There’s a duck”and“Now we’ll be all right,my poppet”. She filled a giant foot-bath with hot water and helped Jill into it. If you can swim (as Jill coul