But come along to the stables.' You know the kind of stables they would be?
The long shed with stalls such as you had, when you were little, for your little wooden horses and carts?
Only there were not only horses here, but every sort of animal that has ever been ridden on.

Elephants, camels, donkeys, mules, bulls, goats, zebras, tortoises, ostriches, bisons, and pigs.

And in the last stall of all, which was not of common wood but of beaten silver, stood the very Hippogriff himself, with his long, white mane and his long, white tail, and his gentle, beautiful eyes.

His long, white wings were folded neatly on his satin-smooth back, and how he and the stall got here was more than Philip could guess.

All the others were Noah's Ark animals, alive, of course, but still Noah's Arky beyond possibility of mistake.