The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Nothing wrong with me," said Puddleglum. "Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I'm a
respectabiggle."
But the young giant caught him up by the waist and signed to the children to follow. In
this undignified way they crossed the courtyard. Puddleglum, held in the giant's fist, and
vaguely kicking the air, did certainly look very like a frog. But they had little time to
notice this, for they soon entered the great doorway of the main castle - both their hearts
beating faster than usual - and, after pattering along several corridors at a trot to keep up
with the giant's paces, found themselves blinking in the light of an enormous room,
where lamps glowed and a fire roared on the hearth and both were reflected from the
gilding of roof and cornice. More giants than they could count stood on their left and
right, all in magnificent robes; and on two thrones at the far end, sat two huge shapes that
appeared to be the King and Queen.
About twenty feet from the thrones, they stopped. Scrubb and Jill made an awkward
attempt at a bow (girls are not taught how to curtsey at Experiment House) and the young
giant carefully put Puddleglum down on the floor, where he collapsed into a sort of
sitting position. With his long limbs he looked, to tell the truth, uncommonly like a large
spider.
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE HOUSE OF HARFANG
"Go on, Pole, do your stuff," whispered Scrubb.
Jill found that her mouth was so dry that she couldn't speak a word. She nodded savagely
at Scrubb.
Thinking to himself that he would never forgive her (or Puddleglum either), Scrubb
licked his lips and shouted up to the King giant.
"If you please, Sire, the Lady of the Green Kirtle salutes you by us and said you'd like to
have us for your Autumn Feast."
The giant King and Queen looked at each other, nodded to each other, and smiled in a
way that Jill didn't exactly like. She liked the King better than the Queen. He had a fine,
curled beard and a straight eagle-like nose, and was really rather good-looking as giants
go. The Queen was dreadfully fat and had a double chin and a fat, powdered face - which
isn't a very nice thing at the best of times, and of course looks much worse when it is ten
times too big. Then the King put out his tongue and licked his lips. Anyone might do that: