quot;O; said t  last t outside and Mr Beaver locked t;Itll delay ,quot;  off, all carrying their shoulders.

    topped and t  Mr Beaver, ter, t of all. Mr Beaver led to t bank of  t of patrees rig, toher hand.

    quot;Best keep doo  top, for you couldnt bring a sledge down here.”

    It y enougo look at it table armc at first.  But as t on   o  all. And sopped looking at tness of ts  erfalls of ice and at te masses of tree-tops and t glaring moon and tless stars and could only ctle s legs of Mr Beaver going pad-pad-pad-pad  t of o stop. to fall once more. And at last Lucy ired t s asleep and  time o t and eeply upo t bus Mr Beaver   vaniso a little  il you e on top of it. In fact, by time s   tail was showing.

    Lucy immediately stooped doer ing be all five of  them were inside.

    quot;; said Peters voice, sounding tired and pale in t I mean by a voice sounding pale.)  quot;Its an old imes,quot; said Mr Beaver, quot;and a  great secret.

    Its not muc  get a few hours sleep.”

    quot;If you  all been in sucarting, Id   some pillo; said Mrs Beaver.

    It  nearly sucumnuss, Lucy t - just a   dry and eart

    and being tle smoottle flask out of er a little and stung t,  but it also made you feel deliciously er youd s and everyone   straigo sleep.

    It seemed to Lucy only t minute (t le cold and dreadfully stiff and t bat a set of long  immediately after t s tting up  ening to a sound   nig was a sound of jingling bells.

    Mr Beaver