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old narnia in dahe place where they had t the fauns was, ourse, dang lawn itself,and here caspian and his friends reiill the night of the great cil. tosleep uhe stars, to drink nothing but well water and to live chiefly on nuts and wildfruit, was a strange experience for caspian after his bed with silkes in atapestried chaer at the castle, with als laid out on gold and silver dishes ierooand attendants ready at his call. but he had never enjoyed hielf re. never had sleepbeen re refreshing nor food tasted re savoury, and he began already to harden andhis face wore a kinglier look.
when the great night ca, and his various strange subjects ca stealinginto the lawn by ones and twos and threes or by sixes and sevens - the on then shiningalst at her full - his heart swelled as he saw their nuers and heard their greetings.all whohe had t were there: bulgy bears and red dwarfs and black dwarfs, moles andbadgers, hares and hedgehogs, and others whohe had not yet seen - five satyrs asred as foxes, the whole ti of talking mice, ard to the teeth and following ashrill truet, so owls, the old raven of ravenscaur. last of all (and this tookcaspians breath away), with the taurs ca a sll but genuine giant, wileweather ofdeadns
hill, carrying on his back a basketful of rather sea-sick dwarfs who hadaepted his offer of a lift and were now wishing they had walked instead.
the bulgy bears were very anxious to have the feast first and leave thecil till afterwards: perhaps till torrow. reepicheep and his mice said thatcils auld both wait, and proposed st miraz in his own castle that verynight.
pattertwig and the other squirrels said theuld talk a at the sati, so why not have the cil a all at ohe moles proposed throwing up entres round the lawn before they did anything else. the faunsthought it would be better to begin with a sole dahe old raven, while agreeing withthe bears that it would take too long to have a full cil before supper, begged tobe allowed to give a brief address to the whole pany. but caspian and the taurs andthe dwarfs overruled all these suggestions and insisted on holding a real cil ofwar at once.
when all the other creatures had been persuaded to sit down quietly in agreat circle, and when (with re difficulty) they had got pattertwig to stop running to andfro and saying &a;a;a;quot;silence! silence, everyone, for the kings speech&a;a;a;quot;, caspian, feeling alittle nervous, got up. &a;a;a;quot;narnians!&a;a;a;quot; he began, but he never got any further, for at that verynt callo the hare said, &a;a;a;quot;hush! theres a man sowhere near.”
they were all creatures of the wild, aced to being hunted, and theyall beca still as statues. the beasts all turheir noses in the dire whibsp; callo had indicated.
&a;a;a;quot;slls like man a not quite like man,&a;a;a;quot; whispered trufflehunter.
&a;a;a;quot;its getting steadily nearer,&a;a;a;quot; said callo.
&a;a;a;quot;two badgers and you three dwarfs, with your bows at the - ready, go softlyoff to et it,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;well settle un,&a;a;a;quot; said a black dwarf griy, fitting a shaft to hisb.
&a;a;a;quot;dont shoot if it is alone,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian. &a;a;a;quot;catch it.”
&a;a;a;quot;why?&a;a;a;quot; asked the dwarf.
&a;a;a;quot;do as youre told,&a;a;a;quot; said glenstorthe taur.
everyone waited in silence while the three dwarfs and two badgers trottedstealthily across to the trees on the northwest side of the lawn. then ca a sharpdwarfish cry, &a;a;a;quot;stop! who goes there?&a;a;a;quot; and a sudden spring. a nt later a voice, whibsp; caspian knew welluld he heard saying, &a;a;a;quot;all right, all right, iuake wrists if you like, worthy badgers, but dont bite right through the i want tospeak to the king.”
&a;a;a;quot;doctor elius!&a;a;a;quot; cried caspian with joy, and rushed forward to greet hisold tutor.
everyone else crowded round.
&a;a;a;quot;pah!&a;a;a;quot; said nikabrik. &a;a;a;quot;a renegade dwarf. a half-and-halfer! shall i pass sword through its throat?”
&a;a;a;quot;be quiet, nikabrik,&a;a;a;quot; said trukin. &a;a;a;quot;the creature t help itsary.”
&a;a;a;quot;this isgreatest friend and the saviour oflife,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian. &a;a;a;quot;andanyone who doesnt like his pany y leavear: at once. dearest doctor&a;a;lt;dfn&a;a;gt;藏书网&a;a;lt;/dfn&a;a;gt;, i anbsp; glad to see you again. how ever did you find us out?”
&a;a;a;quot;by a little use of sile giajesty,&a;a;a;quot; said the doctor, who wasstill puffing and blowing frohaving walked so fast. &a;a;a;quot;but theres no ti to go intothat now. we st all fly frothis place at once. you are already betrayed and miraz ison the ve.
before dday torrow you will be surrounded.”
&a;a;a;quot;betrayed!&a;a;a;quot; said caspian. &a;a;a;quot;and by who”
&a;a;a;quot;another renegade dwarf, no doubt,&a;a;a;quot; said nikabrik.
&a;a;a;quot;by your horse destrier,&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius. &a;a;a;quot;the poor brute knew nobetter. when you were knocked off, ourse, he went dawdling back to his stable in thecastle. then the secret of your flight was known. i de self scarce, ９9lib?having no wishto be questioned about it in mirazs torture chaer. i had a pretty good guessfro crystal as to where i should find you. but all day - that was the day beforeyesterday - i saw mirazs trag parties out in the woods. yesterday i learhat hisar is out. i dont think so of your - u- pure-blooded dwarfs have as ch woodcraft asght be expected. youve left tracks all over the place. great carelessness. at anyrate sothing has warned miraz that old narnia is not so dead as he had hoped, and he ison the ve.”
&a;a;a;quot;hurrah!&a;a;a;quot; said a very shrill and sll voice frosowhere at the doctorsfeet. &a;a;a;quot;let thee! all i ask is that the king will putandpeople in thefront.”
&a;a;a;quot;what oh?&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius. &a;a;a;quot;has your majesty got grasshoppers- or squitoes - in your ar?&a;a;a;quot; then after stooping d carefullythrough his spectacles, he broke into a laugh.
&a;a;a;quot;by the lion,&a;a;a;quot; he swore, &a;a;a;quot;its a use. signior mouse, i desire your betteracquaintance.
i ahonoured by eting so valiant a beast.”
&a;a;a;quot;my friendship you shall have, learned man,&a;a;a;quot; piped reepicheep. &a;a;a;quot;and anydwarf - iant - in the ar who does not give you good language shall haveswordto re with.”
&a;a;a;quot;is there ti for this foolery?&a;a;a;quot; asked nikabrik. &a;a;a;quot;what are our plans?battle or flight?”
&a;a;a;quot;battle if need be,&a;a;a;quot; said trukin. &a;a;a;quot;but we are hardly ready for it yet,and this is no very defensible place.”
&a;a;a;quot;i dont like the idea of running away,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;hear hi hear hi&a;a;a;quot; said the bulgy bears. &a;a;a;quot;whatever we do, doshave any running. especially not before supper; and not too soon after it her.”
&a;a;a;quot;those who run first do not always run last,&a;a;a;quot; said the taur. &a;a;a;quot;and whyshould we let the ene choose our position instead of choosing it ourselves? let us finda strong place.”
&a;a;a;quot;thats wise, your majesty, thats wise,&a;a;a;quot; said trufflehunter.
&a;a;a;quot;but where are we to go?&a;a;a;quot; asked several voices.
&a;a;a;quot;your majesty,&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius, &a;a;a;quot;and all you variety of creatures, ithink we st fly east and down the river to the great woods. the telrines hate thatregion. they have always been afraid of the sea and of sothing that y e over thesea. that is why they have let the great woods grow up. if traditions speak true, thea cair paravel was at the river-uth. all that part is friendly to us and hatefulto our enees.
we st go to aslans how.”
&a;a;a;quot;aslans ho;quot; said several voices. &a;a;a;quot;we do not know what it is.”
&a;a;a;quot;it lies within the skirts of the great woods and it is a huge und whiarnians raised in very ais over a very gical place, where there stood - andperhaps still stands - a very gical stohe mound is all hollowed out within intogalleries and caves, and the stone is iral cave of all. there is rooin theund for all our stores, and those of us who have st need over and are st absp; to underground lifebe lodged in the caves. the rest of uslie in thewood. at a pinch all of us (except this worthy giantuld retreat into the mound itself,and there we should be beyond the reach of every danger except fane.”
&a;a;a;quot;it is a good thing we have a learned n ang us,&a;a;a;quot; said trufflehunter;but trukin ttered under his breath, &a;a;a;quot;soup and celery! i wish our leaders would thinkless about these old wives tales and re about victuals and ar.&a;a;a;quot; but all approvedof eliuss proposal and that very night, half an hour later, they were on the rbsp; before suhey arrived at aslans how.
it was certainly an aweso place, a round green hill on top of anotherhill, long since grown over with trees, and otle, low doorway leading into it. thetunnels inside were a perfect ze till you got to know the and they were lined androofed with soth stones, and oones, peering iwilight, caspian sawstrange characters and snaky patterns, and pictures in which the forof a lion was repeatedagain and
again. it all seed to belong to an even older narnia than the narnia ofwhich his nurse had told hi
it was after they had taken up their quarters in and around the how thatfortune began tainst the king mirazsuts soon found their new lair, and heand his ar arrived on the edge of the woods. and as so often happens, the eurnedout strohan they had reed. caspia sank as he saw pany afterpany arriving.
and though mirazs n y have been afraid of going into the wood, theywere even re afraid of miraz, and with hiin and they carried battle deeplyinto it and sotis alst to the how itself. caspian and other captains oursede ny sorties into the open try. thus there was fighting on st days andsotis by night as well; but caspians party had on the whole the worst of it.
at last there ca a ni&a;a;lt;bdi&a;a;gt;?９９lib?&a;a;lt;/bdi&a;a;gt;ght whehing had gone as badly as possible,and the rain which had been falling heavily all day had ceased at nightfall only to giveplace to rald. that caspian had arranged what was his biggest battle yet,and all had hung their hopes on it. he, with st of the dwarfs, was to have fallen onthe kings right wing at daybreak, and then, when they were heavily engaged, giant wileweather, with the taurs and so of the fiercest beasts, was tohave broken out froanother plad endeavoured to cut the kings right off frotherest of the ar. but it had all failed. no one had warned caspian (because no one inthese later days ofnarnia reered) that giants are not at all clever. poor wileweather,though as brave as a lion, was a true giant in that respect. he had broken out at thewrong ti and frothe wrong place, and both his party and caspians had suffered badlyand dohe ene little har the best of the bears had been hurt, a taur terriblywounded, and there were few in caspians party who had not lost blood. it was a gloopany that huddled uhe dripping trees to eat their sty supper.
the glooest of all was giant wileweather. he k was all his fault.he sat in silence shedding big tears whicllected on the end of his nose and thenfell off with a huge splash on the whole bivouac of the mice, who had just been beginningto get warand drowsy. they all jued up, shaking the water out of their ears andwringing their little blas, and asked the giant in shrill but forcible voices whetherhe thought they were enough without this sort of thing. and then other people wokeup and told the mice they had been enrolled asuts and not as a cert party, and askedwhy theuldnt keep quiet. and wileweather tiptoed away to find so plabsp; where huld be serable in pead stepped on sobodys tail and sobody (theysaid afterwards it was a fox) bit hi and so everyone was out of teer.
but in the secret and gical chaer at the heart of the how, kingcaspian, with elius and the badger and nikabrik and trukin, were at cil. thibsp; pillars of a worknship supported the roof. ire was the stoself- a stoable, split right dowre, anvered with what had once been writing ofso kind: but ages of wind and rain and snow had alst worn theaway in old tiswhen the
stoable had stood on the hilltop, and the mound had not yet been builtabove it. they were not using the table nor sitting round it: it was too gic a thing forany ohey sat on logs a little way froit, aween thewa&a;a;lt;cite&a;a;gt;&a;a;lt;/cite&a;a;gt;s a roughwooden table, on which stood a rude clay la lighting up their pale faces and throwingbig shadows on the walls.
&a;a;a;quot;if your majesty is ever to use the horn,&a;a;a;quot; said trufflehunter, &a;a;a;quot;i think theti has now e.&a;a;a;quot; caspian had ourse told theof his treasure several days ago.
&a;a;a;quot;we are certainly i need,&a;a;a;quot; answered caspian. &a;a;a;quot;but it is hard to besure we are at reatest. supposing there ca an even worse need and we had alreadyused it?”
&a;a;a;quot;by that argunt,&a;a;a;quot; said nikabrik, &a;a;a;quot;your majesty will never use it until itis too late.”
&a;a;a;quot;i agree with that,&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius.
&a;a;a;quot;and what do you think, trukin?&a;a;a;quot; asked caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;oh, as for ,&a;a;a;quot; said the red dwarf, who had been listening with pleteindifference, &a;a;a;quot;your majesty knows i think the horn - and that bit of broken stone overthere and yreat kier - and your lion aslan - are all eggs in onshisall oowhen your majesty blows the horn. all i insist on is that the ar is toldnothing about it. theres no good raising hopes of gical help which (as i think) aresure to be disappointed.”
&a;a;a;quot;then in the na of aslan we will wind queen susans horn,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;there is ohing, sire,&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius, &a;a;a;quot;that should perhaps bedone first. we do not know what forthe help will take. it ght call aslan hielf fronbsp; oversea. but i think it is re likely to call peter the high king and his ghty sortsdown frothe high past. but iher case, i do not think webe sure that the helpwill e to this very spot -”
&a;a;a;quot;you never said a truer word,&a;a;a;quot; put in trukin.
&a;a;a;quot;i think,&a;a;a;quot; went on the learned n, &a;a;a;quot;that they - or he will e back toone or other&a;a;lt;q&a;a;gt;&a;a;lt;/q&a;a;gt; of the a places of narnia. this, where we now sit, is the st aand st deeply gical of all, and here, i think, the answer is likeliest to e.but there are two others. one lantern waste, up-river, west of beaversda where the royalchildren first appeared in narnia, as the rds tell the other is down at the river- uth, where their castle of cair paravel oood. and if aslan hielf es, that wouldbe the best plaeeting hitoo, for every story says that he is the son of thegreat eeror-over-the-sea, and over the sea he will pass. i should like very ch tosend sseo both places, to lantern waste and the river-uth, to receive the- orhior it.”
&a;a;a;quot;just as i thought,&a;a;a;quot; ttered trukin. &a;a;a;quot;the first result of all thisfoolery is not t us help but to lose us two fighters.”
&a;a;a;quot;who would you think of sending, doctor elius?&a;a;a;quot; asked caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;squirrels are best fetting through ery without beingcaught,&a;a;a;quot; said trufflehunter.
&a;a;a;quot;all our squirrels (and we havent ny),&a;a;a;quot; said nikabrik, &a;a;a;quot;are ratherflighty. the only one id trust on a job like that would be pattertwig.”
&a;a;a;quot;let it be pattertwig, then,&a;a;a;quot; said king caspian. &a;a;a;quot;and who for our otherssenger? i know youd go, trufflehunter, but you havent the speed. nor you, doctorelius.”
&a;a;a;quot;i wont go,&a;a;a;quot; said nikabrik. &a;a;a;quot;with all these huns as about, therest be a dwarf here to see that the dwarfs are fairly treated.”
&a;a;a;quot;thiles and thuor!&a;a;a;quot; cried trukin in a rage. &a;a;a;quot;is that how youspeak to the king? send , sire, ill go.”
&a;a;a;quot;but i thought you didnt believe in the horn, trukin,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian.
&a;a;a;quot;no re i do, your majesty. but whats that got to do with it? i ght aswell die on a wild goose chase as die here. you areking. i know the differenbsp; between giving advid taking orders. youve hadadvice, and now its the ti fororders.”
&a;a;a;quot;i will never fet this, trukin,&a;a;a;quot; said caspian. &a;a;a;quot;send for pattertwig,one of you. and when shall i blow the horn?”
&a;a;a;quot;i would wait for sunrise, your majesty,&a;a;a;quot; said doctor elius. &a;a;a;quot;thatsotis has an effe operations of white magic.”
a few nutes later pattertwig arrived and had his task explaio hias he was, like ny squirrels, full of d dash and energy aent andschief (not to say ceit), he no sooner heard it than he was eager to be off. it wasarrahat he should run for lantern waste while trukin de the shorter jouro theriver-uth. after a hasty al they both set off with the fervent thanks andgood wishes of the king, the badger, and elius.
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