You may think the animals were very stupid not to see at once that Uncle Andrew was the same kind of creature as the two children and the Cabby. But you must remember that the animals knew nothing about clothes. They thought that Polly‘s frock and Digory’s Norfolk suit and the Cabby‘s bowler hat were as much parts of them as their own fur and feathers. They wouldn’t have known even that those three were all of the same kind if they hadn‘t spoken to them and if Strawberry had not seemed to think so. And Uncle Andrew was a great deal taller than the children and a good deal thinner than the Cabby. He was all in black except for his white waistcoat （not very white by now）， and the great grey mop of his hair （now very wild indeed） didn’t look to them like anything they had seen in the three other humans. So it was only natural that they should be puzzled. Worst of all， he didn‘t seem to be able to talk.
