“I knew it was a well because you could see the water ubbling up from the bottom of it： but it was a lot bigger han most wells.like a very big， round bath with marble eps going down into it. The water was as clear as anything nd I thought if I could get in there and bathe， it would ease he pain in my leg. But the lion told me I must undress first. ind you， I don‘t know if he said any words out loud or not. “I was just going to say that I couldn’t undress because I adn‘t any clothes on when I suddenly thought that dragons re snaky sort of things and snakes can cast their skins. Oh， f course， thought I， that’s what the lion means. So I started cratching myself and my scales began coming off all over he place. And then I scratched a little deeper and， instead f just scales coming off here and there， my whole skin arted peeling off beautifully， like it does after an illness， ors if I was a banana. In a minute or two I just stepped out f it. I could see it lying there beside me， looking rather asty. It was a most lovely feeling. So I started to go down to the well for my bathe.
