So he hastened towards it, and stooping down placed his hands upon it, and it was a cloak of golden tissue, curiously wrought with stars, and wrapped in many folds.
And after they had tried to go through these, stooping and pushing for about ten minutes, they realized that, in there, it would take them an hour to do half a mile.
The Littles liked Ping-pong, but the balls had away of rolling under chairs, sofas, and radiators, and this meant that the players were forever stooping down and reaching under things.