t morning and found for one t s sle over ) on a stone coming in trutful supper, all croo t cave, in spite of being so sleepy before it c
real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping and burst and just tiniest bit burnt. And great mugs of frote, and roast potatoes and roast cnuts, and baked apples uck in o freser all t things.
Jill sat up and looked around. Puddleglum and Eustace far a asleep.
quot;; sed Jill in a loud voice. quot;Arent you ever going to get up?”
quot;S; said a sleepy voice someime to be settling doo-do. tu-whoo!”
quot;; said Jill, glancing up at a op of a grandfat;I do believe its Glimfeather!”
quot;true, true,quot; s from under its ;I came up about t us to follooo. Good- day -quot; and the head disappeared again.
As tting any information from t up and began looking round for any c. But almost at once a little Faun came trotting into ty one floor.
quot;A last, Daug; ;Perter to be off in a fees and taurs o let you ride on to Cair Paravel.quot; he added in a lower voice.
quot;Of course, you realize it is a most special and uno be alloo ride a Centaur. I dont kno I ever before. It do to keep ting.”
quot;; question of Eustace and Puddleglum as soon as they had been wakened.
quot;o meet t Cair Paravel,quot; ans;ys sed in . It seems t t Aslan - I dont knoo face - before urned old son aing him when he reached Narnia.”
Eustace o get t.
Puddleglum old to stay in bed. A Centaur called Cloudbirt) a leeco see to foot.
quot;A; said Puddleglum in a tone almost of contentment, quot; to t ; But e glad to stay in bed.
Breakfast oast and Eustace tackled it just as if .
quot;I say, Son of Adam,quot; said tain a Eustaces mouthfuls.
quot;to e so dreadfully as t. I dont taurs e finiss yet.”
quot;t up very late,quot; said Eustace. quot;I bet its after ten oclock.”
quot;O; said Orruns. quot;t up before it .”
quot;t ed time for breakfast,quot; said Eustace.
quot;No, t,quot; said Orruns. quot;ting te they awoke.”
quot;Golly!quot; said Eustace. quot;Do t a very big breakfast?”
quot; you understand? A Centaur omacomac breakfast. So first of all te and cold oast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after t tends to t of mass, and a bag of sugar. ts aur to stay for thing indeed.”
At t moment tapping on rock from taurs, one bare cs, stood ing for ttle so as to look into te and finis very quickly. No one taur funny w.
tic people, full of ancient easily made eit terrible as a tidal wave w comes.
quot;Good-bye, dear Puddleglum,quot; said Jill, going over to t;Im sorry blanket.”
quot;Som I,quot; said Eustace. quot;Youve been t friend in the world.”
quot;And I do again,quot; added Jill.
quot;Not muc, I s; replied Puddleglum. quot;1 dont reckon Im very likely to see my old Prince - do you
trong? Constitution ruined wonder.
Looks t t might go off any day.”
quot;Puddleglum!quot; said Jill. quot;Youre a regular old ly alk as if you hing, when youre really as brave as-as a lion.”
quot;No; began Puddleglum, but Jill, apping ace aurs, and to ;ell, I of . Even though I am a good-looking chap.”
to ride on a Centaur is, no doubt, a great Jill and Eustace today it is very uncomfortable. For no one ting a saddle on a Centaur, and riding bare-back is no fun; especially if, like Eustace, you o ride at all. taurs e in a grave, gracious, groered t turning telling t ties of s, ts, t sort. But ed to see t nigo be met by rabbits and squirrels and birds t rees.
to t and blue in er suns bridge (tle to barge by t is Mars of tery and fisly came to Cair Paravel itself. And at t of t same brig set foot in Narnia, gliding up t le and to ood close to ters edge, bare-o receive rumpkin sat beside tle donkey-c cro rataurs if t go on sitting on ttle longer and tiers. And taurs said t.
A flourisrumpets came over ter from ts (talking Rats, of course) and Mars fast aso play solemn,
triumps ran the gangway on board her.
Jill expected to see t. But to be some c to to trumpkin. talking ogetes, but no one could t you could feel t everyone s, carrying something and going very slowly, appeared on deck.
arted to come do t ill. t beside o bless it sometopped and t and .
to and fro. ticed t all s, s, or aking tace included. tling and flapping noise up above tle; banner er t, slorings and disconsolate bloune to break your .
taurs (ice of them).
quot;I wis ; said Jill.
Eustace nodded, saying not his lip.
quot;I ; said a deep voice beurned and sa and real and strong t everyt once to look pale and sime t takes to breat about tace fall over to muff nearly all t all ted to say quot;Im sorryquot; but s speak. tooucongue, and said: quot;t no more. I alo Narnia.”
quot;Please, Aslan,quot; said Jill, quot;may we go home now?”
quot;Yes. I o bring you ; said Aslan. t time tead, it seemed t till, and the dead King
and tle and ter sky. For all ted off into tanding in a great brigurf, among migrees, and beside a fair, fresream.
t tain of Aslan, range t till on, tell ream and t before tiful, and t Jill did not kno filled ears.
topped, and to tream. And tream, lay King Caspian, dead, er flo like er-ood and . Even t: great Lion-tears, eacear more precious t iced t Eustace looked neiting to , but like a gro least, t is t s to it; but really, as s seem to icular ages on t mountain.
quot;Son of Adam,quot; said Aslan, quot;go into t t and pluck t you to me.”
Eustace obeyed. t long and sharp as a rapier.
quot;Drive it into my pa; said Aslan, fore -pa t pad toace.
quot;Must I?quot; said Eustace.
quot;Yes,quot; said Aslan.
tace set eeto t a great drop of blood, redder t you have ever seen or imagined.
And it splaso tream over t t topped. And to be ce beard turned to grey, and from grey to yello ser and vanisogetood before t Jill couldnt say ry. Even in t is tupidest c cupidest grown-ups w grownup.) And o Aslan and flung rong kisses of a King, and Aslan gave he wild kisses of a Lion.
At last Caspian turned to t laugonished joy.
quot;ace!quot; ;Eustace! So you did reacer all. about my second-best s you broke on t?”
Eustace made a step to t startled expression.
quot;Look ; ammered. quot;Its all very arent you? - I mean didnt you -?”
quot;O be suc; said Caspian.
quot;But,quot; said Eustace, looking at Aslan. quot; he - er died?”
quot;Yes,quot; said t voice, almost (Jill t) as if he were laughing.
quot; people .”
quot;O; said Caspian. quot;I see , or some nonsense. But dont you see? I if I appeared in Narnia no belong t one cant be a g in ones ory. I mig if I got into your kno I suppose it isnt yours either, now youre here.”
A great s. But Aslan s;No, my dears,quot; ; me o stay. But not now.
You must go back to your own world for a while.”
quot;Sir,quot; said Caspian, quot;Ive aled to one glimpse of t wrong?”
quot;You cannot you ; said Aslan.
quot;And you ses of time. It ake no longer for you to set t t; to Caspian ace o and all about Experiment o kno quite as hey did.
quot;Daug; said Aslan to Jill, quot;pluck a sc bus; S urned into a fine new riding crop.
quot;No; said Aslan. quot;But use only t, for it is co whom 1 send you.”
quot;Are you coming ; said Jill.
quot;t; said Aslan.
ty feet of to to tumn sky urned to Jill and Eustace and breatoucongue. turned o England, and o Jill sao of terblott, `Spotty Sorrier, big Bannister, and tt t suddenly topped. t, cruelty, and sneakis disappeared in one single expression of terror. For t lying in ttering clotrengtace plied ts of t in tes all t, `Murder!
Fascists! Lions! It isnt fair. And t to see o recognize) serics and back to tories about a lion escaped from a circus, and escaped convicts ace slipped quietly indoors and c of t cloto ordinary t back into Aslans ic, to ts of t Experiment , and about ten people got expelled. After t, t t or to interfere muc t, t o Parliament wer.
Eustace buried ly one nig Jill smuggled a fancy-dress ball next day fortter at Experiment became quite a good school.
And Jill and Eustace were always friends.
But far off in Narnia, King Rilian buried or, tent name, and mourned for en pointed out t brig on afternoons, and t you couldnt expect good times to last. to t open, and often in summer days terns and doo ter and sail to and fro, singing, on telling eacories of ties t lie
fato go to Narnia yourself, do not forget to those caves.