What does "lit" mean, in The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat, by Dr Seuss contains the following:

I do not like this said the fish as he lit. I do not like it, not one little bit.

What on earth does lit mean in this context?

A guess is that it means alighted, considering the fish has landed in the teapot.

Perhaps it's a typo?

Thanks to my 5-year old daughter for spotting this, somehow I never noticed it myself.

Solution 1:

It is the past of light, a verb which has almost fallen out of use, but means the same as alight.

The OED says s.v. 'light'

II. To descend. Cf. alight v.1

with an example from William Morris in 1868: "While from the horse he lit adown." (I imagine it was a deliberate archaism by Morris).