Every man rushed to his weapon， but there was nothing to be done， the monster was out of reach. “Shoot！ Shoot！” cried the Master Bowman， and several obeyed， but the arrows glanced off the Sea Serpent’s hide as if it was ironplated. Then， for a dreadful minute， everyone was still， staring up at its eyes and mouth and wondering where it would pounce.
But it didn‘t pounce. It shot its head forward across the ship on a level with the yard of the mast. Now its head wasst beside the fighting top. Still it stretched and stretched ll its head was over the starboard bulwark. Then down it egan to come . not on to the crowded deck but into the ater， so that the whole ship was under an arch of serpent. nd almost at once that arch began to get smaller： indeed n the starboard the Sea Serpent was now almost touching he Dawn Treader’s side.