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e to the heights for rest and peace,courtesy and council,the sports,the dances and the songs.
They had passed the city and the sea-bed was still rising. It was only a few hundred feet below the ship now.The road had disappeared.They were sailing above an open park-like country, dotted with little groves of brightly—coloured vegetation.And then—Lucy nearly squealed aloud with excitement—she had seen People.
There were between fifteen and twenty of them,and all mounted on sea-horses—not the tiny little sea-horses which you may have seen in museums but horses rather bigger than themselves.They must be noble and lordly people,Lucy thought,for she could catch the gleam of gold on some of their foreheads and streamers of emerald—or orange—coloured stuff fluttered from their shoulders in the current.Then:
“Oh,bother these fish !”said Lucy,for a whole shoal of small fat fish,swimming quite close to the surface,had come between her and the Sea People.But though this spoiled