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t of sleeping out of doors is t you up because t you are uncomfortable.
And it makes matters apples for breakfast and you apples for supper t before. ruly enoug it seem to be anyto be said. Edmund said ;eve simply got to get off this island.”
doream again to tared at the mainland.
quot;ell o s; said Edmund.
quot;It er (Susan school).
quot;But I dont kno t of us.quot; By quot;t of usquot; Edmund do t t all.
quot;Any; said Susan, quot;ts. Fats never o bat know.”
quot;But, Peter,quot; said Lucy, quot;look ss at couldnt s of t you think -?”
quot;A of gro; said Peter.
quot;e reigned for years and years and learned to do t back at our proper ages again now?”
quot;O; said Edmund in a voice alking and listen to him.
quot;Ive just seen it all,quot; he said.
quot;Seen ; asked Peter.
quot;; said Edmund. quot;You kno last nig it Narnia but everyt you see? You kno, o back t seemed to aken no time at all?”
quot;Go on,quot; said Susan. quot;I to understand.”
quot;And t means,quot; continued Edmund, quot;t, once youre out of Narnia, you ime is going.
in Narnia while only one year has passed for us in England?”
quot;By Jove, Ed,quot; said Peter. quot;I believe youve got it. In t sense it really o Narnia just as if Britons or someone coming back to modern England?”
quot;ed to see us -quot; began Lucy, but at t everyone else said, quot;; or quot;Look!quot; For nohing was happening.
t on ttle to t, and t sure t just beyond t point must be t point to sig. , it turned and began coming along toting in tern and tc o be soldiers. teel caps on t ss of co tc moving a finger.
quot;t; said tern e to them.
quot; about tying a stone to , Corporal?quot; said ting on his oars.
quot;Garn!quot; gro;e dont need t, and one, as long as ied t.quot; ited er no it a D struggling as moment beside once to ttom of t, and fell over into ter. o ter kne Susans arro s ting a second arroo tring. But it was never used.
As soon as of t on ter ( in o the mainland.
quot;Quick! Before ss!quot; sed Peter. er o t. In a feo ted t, and Edmund ting knife. (Peters s for t of
any t up, rubbed ;ell, feel like gs.”
Like most D anding up, and an immense beard and tle of o be seen except a beak-like nose and twinkling black eyes.
quot;Any; inued, quot;gs or not, youve saved my life and Im extremely obliged to you.”
quot;But ; asked Lucy.
quot;Ive been told all my life,quot; said t;t ts as trees. ts ory is. And ts o get rid of anyone, th me)
and say to ts. But I al really dro ts. I never quite believed in ts. But t s believed all rigened of taking me to my deathan I was of going!”
quot;O; said Susan. quot;So ts wh ran away.”
quot;Es t?quot; said the Dwarf.
quot;t a; said Edmund. quot;to the mainland.”
quot;I sing to kill, you kno; said Susan. S o t suc range.
quot;; said t;ts not so good. t may mean trouble later on. Unless tongues for their own sake.”
quot; o dro; asked Peter.
quot;O; said t;But ts a long story.
Meantime, I o breakfast? Youve no idea ite it gives one, being executed.quot; quot;t; said Lucy dolefully.
quot;Better t not so good as fres; said t;It looks as if Ill o ask you to breakfast instead. I sa boat. And any take o t anyone from the mainland coming down and seeing her.”
quot;I ougo of t myself,quot; said Peter.
t doo ters edge, pus y, and scrambled aboard. t once took coo big for o use, so Peter roeered tly eastip of t up t beyond it. t ts of it, but time, made everyt.
o open sea on t of took to fis catciful rainbo enoug up into a little creek and moored o a tree. t capable person (and, indeed, ts bad D;No next is some firewood.”
quot;eve got some up at tle,quot; said Edmund.
tle. quot;Beards and bedsteads!quot; ;So tle, after all?”
quot;Its only a ruin,quot; said Lucy.
tared round at all four of th a very curious expression on his face.
quot;And ;No matter. Breakfast first.
But one ts and tell me Im really alive? Are you sure I dro all gs together?”
question o string t. to use Edmunds in t. t by now been so ravenously hungry.
At first t seem very comfortable in tle. looking round and sniffing and saying, quot; spooky after all. Smells like gs, too.quot; But came to ligo roast ting fis knife bet fingers before t, as it ed. t, lit it, ble cloud of fragrant smoke, and said, quot;Now.”
quot;You tell us your story first,quot; said Peter. quot;And tell you ours.”
quot;ell,quot; said t;as youve saved my life it is only fair you s I o begin. First of all Im a messenger of King Caspians.”
quot;; asked four voices all at once.
quot;Caspian tent; ans;t is to say, to be King of Narnia and he is only King of us Old Narnians - “
quot; do you mean by old Narnians, please?quot; asked Lucy.
quot;s us,quot; said t;ere a kind of rebellion, I suppose.”
quot;I see,quot; said Peter. quot;And Caspian is the chief Old Narnian.”
quot;ell, in a manner of speaking,quot; said tc;But elmarine, if you follow me.”
quot;I dont,quot; said Edmund.
quot;Its ; said Lucy.
quot;O; said t;Im doing to go rigo tell you and o be on our side at all. But itll be a long story.”
quot;All tter,quot; said Lucy. quot;e love stories.”
So ttled doold ale. I s give it to you in ting in all tions and interruptions, because it ake too long and be confusing, and, even so, it some points t ter.
But t of tory, as t in the end, was as follows.