chater fur the bell and the har (第11/16页)
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t’s go back and look at that table sort of thing in the middle of the room.”
The thing in the middle of the room was not exactly a table. It was a square pillar about four feet high and on it there rose a little golden arch from which there hung a little golden bell;and beside this there lay a little golden hammer to hit the bell with.
“I wonder...I wonder...I wonder...”said Digory.
“There seems to be something written here,”said Polly, stooping down and looking at the side of the pillar.
“By gum,so there is,”said Digory.“But of course we shan’t be able to read it.”
“Shan’t we ? I’m not so sure,”said Polly.
They both looked at it hard and,as you might have expected, the letters cut in the stone were strange.But now a great wonder happened:for,as they looked,though the shape of the strange letters never altered,they found that they could understand them.If only Digory had remembered what he himself had said a few minutes ago,that this was an enc