Further back， in a half.circle， stood what Jill at once knew o be the courtiers. They were well worth looking at for heir clothes and armour alone. As far as that went， they oked more like a flower.bed than a crowd. But what really ade Jill open her eyes and mouth as wide as they would go， as the people themselves. If “people” was the right word. or only about one in every five was human. The rest were hings you never see in our world. Fauns， satyrs， centaurs： ll could give a name to these， for she had seen pictures f them. Dwarfs， too. And there were a lot of animals she new as well； bears， badgers， moles， leopards， mice， and arious birds. But then they were so very different from the nimals which one called by the same names in England. ome of them were much bigger.the mice， for instance， ood on their hind legs and were over two feet high. But uite apart from that， they all looked different. You could ee by the expression in their faces that they could talk and hink just as well as you could.
