were crowding round watching the elephants stand on their heads, and the horses read things written on black boards. The Noah's Ark Rabbits themselves were perfectly delighted, and said they had never enjoyed a Snow Feast as much before.
"You must come next year," they said, "and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next—" They were even going on murmuring "the next and the next," when Barty went away.
"Now," said the Good Wolf, "trot along—trot along—trot along."
And they did trot along, down corridors and round corners, and through galleries, and in and out, and faster and faster, until at last they came to the hole they had crept in through; and they crept out through it, and found themselves once more standing in the sparkling snow with the circle of tall trees round them.
Barty clapped his hands.