There were between fifteen and twenty of them， andl mounted on sea.horses.not the tiny little sea.horses hich you may have seen in museums but horses rather igger than themselves. They must be noble and lordly eople， Lucy thought， for she could catch the gleam of gold n some of their foreheads， and streamers of emerald.or range.coloured stuff fluttered from their shoulders in the urrent. Then：
“Oh， bother these fish！” said Lucy， for a whole shoal ofmall fat fish， swimming quite close to the surface， had ome between her and the Sea People. But though this poiled her view it led to the most interesting thing of all. uddenly a fierce little fish of a kind she had never seen efore came darting up from below， snapped， grabbed， nd sank rapidly with one of the fat fish in its mouth. And l the Sea People were sitting on their horses staring up t what had happened. They seemed to be talking and ughing. And before the hunting fish had got back to them ith its prey， another of the same kind came up from the ea People. And Lucy was almost certain that one big Sea an who sat on his sea.horse in the middle of the party had ent it or released it； as if he had been holdng it back till hen in his hand or on his wrist.