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her view it led to the most interesting thing of all.Suddenly a fierce little fish of a kind she had never seen before came darting up from below, snapped,grabbed,and sank rapidly with one of the fat fish in its mouth.And all the Sea People were sitting on their horses staring up at what had happened.They seemed to be talking and laughing. And before the hunting fish had got back to them with its prey, another of the same kind came up from the Sea People.And Lucy was almost certain that one big Sea Man who sat on his sea-horse in the middle of the party had sent it or released it;as if he had been holdng it back till then in his hand or on his wrist.
“Why,I do declare,”said Lucy,“it’s a hunting party.Or more like a hawking party.Yes,that’s it.They ride out with these little fierce fish on their wrists just as we used to ride out with falcons on our wrists when we were Kings and Queens at Cair Paravel long ago.And then they fly them—or I suppose I should say swim them—at the oth