The Prince unlocked the door and they all went down he stairs： three of them with drawn swords， and Jill with rawn knife. The attendants had vanished and the great oom at the foot of the Prince’s stairs was empty. The grey， oleful lamps were still burning and by their light they had o difficulty in passing gallery after gallery and descending airway after stairway. The noises from outside the castle ere not so easily heard here as they had been in the room bove. Inside the house all was still as death， and deserted. was as they turned a corner into the great hall on the round floor that they met their first Earthman.a fat， hitish creature with a very pig.like face who was gobbling p all the remains of food on the tables. It squealed （the queal also was very like a pig‘s） and darted under a bench， hisking its long tail out of Puddleglum’s reach in the nick f time. Then it rushed away through the far door toouickly to be followed.
