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ngth of it,lay an enormous man fast asleep. He was far bigger than any of the giants,and his face was not like a giant’s,but noble and beautiful. His breast rose and fell gently under the snowy beard which covered him to the waist. A pure,silver light(no one saw where it came from)rested upon him.
“Who’s that ? ”asked Puddleglum. And it was so long since anyone had spoken,that Jill wondered how he had the nerve.
“That is old Father Time,who once was a King in Overland,” said the Warden. “And now he has sunk down into the Deep Realm and lies dreaming of all the things that are done in the upper world. Many sink down,and few return to the sunlit lands. They say he will wake at the end of the world.”
And out of that cave they passed into another,and then into another and another,and so on till Jill lost count,but always they were going downhill and each cave was lower than the last, till the very thought of the weight and depth of the earth above you was suffocating.