CHAPTER ONE LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE（第2/2頁）

“This must be a simply enormous wardrobe ！”thought Lucy， going still further in and pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her．Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet．“I wonder is that more mothballs ？”she thought，stooping down to feel it with her hand.But instead of feeling the hard，smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe，she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. “This is very queer，”she said，and went on a step or two further.

Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly．“Why，it is just like branches of trees ！”exclaimed Lucy．And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her；not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been，but a long way off．Something cold and soft was falling on her．A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air．

Lucy felt a little frightened，but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well．She looked back over her shoulder and there， between the dark tree—trunks；she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out.（She had，of course，left the door open，for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.）It seemed to be still daylight there．“I can always get back if anything goes wrong，”thought Lucy．She began to walk forward，crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light．In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post．As she stood looking at it，wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next，she heard a pitter patter of feet coming towards her．And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post．

He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella，white with snow．From the waist upwards he was like a man，but his legs were shaped like a goat’s（the hair on them was glossy black）and instead of feet he had goat’s hoofs．He also had a tail，but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow．He had a red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too．He had a strange，but pleasant little face，with a short pointed beard and curly hair，and out of the hair there stuck two horns，one on each side of his forehead．One of his hands，as I have said，held the umbrella：in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. What with the parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping．He was a Faun．And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all his parcels.

“Goodness gracious me ！”exclaimed the Faun．