alive out of this cauldron of waters."

Said the big red man: "Look on then, and note Fox how he steereth,
as it were through a needle's eye."

Now were they underneath the black shadow of the black cliff and
amidst the twilight the surf was tossed about like white fire. In
the lower heavens the stars were beginning to twinkle and the moon
was bright and yellow, and aloft all was peaceful, for no cloud
sullied the sky. One moment Hallblithe saw all this hanging above
the turmoil of thundering water and dripping rock and the next he was
in the darkness of the cave, the roaring wind and the waves still
making thunder about him, though of a different voice from the harsh
hubbub without. Then he heard Fox say: "Sit down now and take the
oars, for presently shall we be at home at the landing place."

So Hallblithe took the oars and rowed, and as they went up the cave
the sea fell, and the wind died out into the aimless gustiness of
hollow places; and for a little while was all as dark as dark might
be. Then Hallblithe saw that the darkness grew a little greyer, and
he looked over his shoulder and saw a star of light before the bows
of the boat, and Fox cried out: "Yea, it is like day; bright will
the moon be for such as needs must be wayfaring to-night! Cease
rowing, O Son of the coal-blue fowl, for there is way enough on her."

Then Hallblithe lay on his oars, and in a minute the bows smote the
land; then he turned about and saw a steep stair of stone, and up the
sloping shaft thereof the moonlit sky and the bright stars. Then Fox
arose and came forward and leapt out of the boat and moored her to a
big stone: then he leapt back again and said: "Bear a hand with the