Then something seemed to be flying at them out of the ery centre of the rising sun： but of course one couldn‘t look eadily in that direction to make sure. But presently the air ecame full of voices.voices which took up the same song hat the Lady and her Father were singing， but in far wilder ones and in a language which no one knew. And soon after hat the owners of these voices could be seen. They were irds， large and white， and they came by hundreds and housands and alighted on everything； on the grass， and the avement， on the table， on your shoulders， your hands， and our head， till it looked as if heavy snow had fallen. For， like now， they not only made everything white but blurred and lunted all shapes. But Lucy， looking out from between the ings of the birds that covered her， saw one bird fly to the ld Man with something in its beak that looked like a little uit， unless it was a little live coal， which it might have een， for it was too bright to look at. And the bird laid it in he Old Man’s mouth.
