ty ell ory for time.

    t hing could  be.

    quot;I cant see anyt; said Peter after ared ;Can  you, Susan?”

    quot;No, of course I cant,quot; snapped Susan. quot;Because t anyto  see. So sleep, Lucy.”

    quot;And I do ; said Lucy in a tremulous voice, quot;t you h me.

    Because - because Ill o go .”

    quot;Dont talk nonsense, Lucy,quot; said Susan. quot;Of course you cant go off on  your o let er. S naughty.”

    quot;Ill go  go,quot; said Edmund. quot;S before.”

    quot;I knoer. quot;And s tainly ill - at t. And  s not like  does the  D.L.F. say?”

    quot;O all,quot; ans;If you all go, of course,  Ill go y splits up, Ill go s my duty to  , if you ask my private opinion, Im a plain d  talk, and friendly  lions t do us any good, and alks as far as I can see.”

    quot;ing o ; said Lucy. quot;e must  go no least I must.”

    quot;Youve no rigo try to force t of us like t. Its four to one  and youre t,quot; said Susan.

    quot;O; gro;eve got to go. till  ; ended to back Lucy up, but  losing s  sleep and  by doing everything as sulkily as possible.

    quot;On t; said Peter, ting o rap and putting  on. At any otime o Lucy,  er, for c be feeling, and ,

    . But  tle annoyed he same.

    Susan . quot;Supposing I started be; s;I  migen to stay  of you  on or not. I jolly hink I shall.”

    quot;Obey ty,quot; said trumpkin, quot;and lets be off. If  Im not to be alloo sleep, Id as soon marcand alking.”

    And so at last t on t first, biting rying not to say all t of saying to Susan. But s turned and  a slo ty yards aions to guide t only  invisible to t silent as he grass.

    o t of trees - tledrums!quot; t trumpkin. quot;I  going to end in a moonlight climb and broken necks.”

    For a long  along top of to a place rees grehem.

    Lucy  looked as if  soo busy keeping  to stop and t trees eep and  narroo t. urned and looked at o  scramble doer ing,  quot;, for goodness sake. Youre rig;and t later, Edmunds voice saying, quot;No, s. there is a way  down.”

    up h her.

    quot;Look!quot;  excitement. quot;Look! s t s of us?”

    quot;Its ; said Lucy.

    quot;I do believe youre rig; said Edmund. quot;I cant t  see it before. But where is he?”

    quot;it you see him?”

    quot;ell, I almost t I did - for a moment. Its suc.”

    quot;Get on, King Edmund, get on,quot; came trumpkins voice from beill nearly at top, Peters voice saying,  quot;Oh, buck up, Susan.

    Give me your  down op grousing.”

    In a fees t ttom and ter filled  their ears.

    treading delicately, like a cat, Aslan stepped from stone to stone across  tream. In topped, bent doo drink, and as er, urned to face time Edmund sa the Rush.

    quot;Peter, Peter,quot; cried Edmund. quot;Did you see?”

    quot;I sa; said Peter. quot;But its so tricky in t. On  feel ired noher.”

    Aslan  ation led to t, fartream, t grey grass, tly pacing Beast  ahead.

    Everyone except Susan and the Dwarf could see him now.

    Presently to anoteep pat descended, and tedious zig-zag. Fortunately t above t neither side was in shadow.

    Lucy   effort ser , ratrying to reac  Glasser. tle slope ( se in t) stretco   . It one table:  iter him.

    quot;Lucy,quot; said Susan in a very small voice.

    quot;Yes?quot; said Lucy.

    quot;I see him now. Im sorry.”

    quot;ts all right.”

    quot;But Ive been far  o go doo t

    I just ed to get out of t knoo say to him?”

    quot;Per need to say muc; suggested Lucy.

    Soon trees and t Mound, Aslans able since their days.

    quot;Our side dont keep very good c; muttered trumpkin. quot;e ougo have  been challenged before now -”

    quot;; said topped and turned and stood  facing tic t t as glad as anyone can he Dwarf shrank back.

    quot;O; said King Peter, dropping on one knee and raising to ;Im so glad. And Im so sorry. Ive been leading tarted and especially yesterday morning.”

    quot;My dear son,quot; said Aslan.

    turned and ;ell done,quot; were his words.

    ter an a;Susan.quot; Susan made no  ans t s;You ened to fears, c; said  Aslan. quot;Come, let me breat them. Are you brave again?”

    quot;A little, Aslan,quot; said Susan.

    quot;And no; said Aslan in a muc a  of roar in  it, le D believe in lions? Come ;  - and t  of a roar but almost thing.

    quot;rait; gasped trumpkin in t of a voice. to see t   disturbed; but it e anotrumpkin,  is,  instead of bolting, ottered towards Aslan.

    Aslan pounced. ten being carried in ts mout . ttle, miserable ball,  tled like  a tinkers pack and to - the air. he was as safe as  if he had been

    in bed, t feel so. As y pa  oo) on the ground.

    quot;Son of Eart; asked Aslan.

    quot;Ye - ; panted t  yet got its breath  back.

    quot;No; said Aslan. quot;tting. Look behe dawn  beginning.

    e ime to lose. You ten into t you here.”

    till speeco ask if  Aslan ed, turned and jingled ao the dusk.

    Lucy noticed t than boys.

    tc of siganding close beside Aslan. t  was changing.

    Lo, Aravir, tar of Narnia, gleamed like a  little moon.

    Aslan, wed his head, shook his mane, and  roared.

    t first like an organ beginning on a loe, rose and became louder, and till t. It rose up from t ed across all Narnia. Doared palely in one anot in t River, no its coldest  , in  every field and  ears of rabbits rose from t from under rees  stirred. In too ts, staring  s. Far aier tain giants peered from teles.

    Lucy and Susan sao t  every direction across t looked first like a black mist creeping on  tormy  last, like  rees of to  be ruso as trees; and  o Aslan,  o gaze on  Aslan, tood still and adored  t ing, quot;Aslan, Aslan!quot; in their  various husky or creaking or wave-like voices.

    t  Lucy  among trees. One  too pretty for a boys, if it  looked, so extremely ,  as Edmund said ;t do anytely anyt; o  many names - Bromios, Bassareus, and  t of girls edly, someone on a donkey. And everybody , quot;Euan, euan, eu-oi-oi-oi.”

    quot;Is it a Romp, Aslan?quot; cried tly it  nearly  everyone seemed to  idea as to  may ig, but Lucy never discovered

    unlike  t t made it more complicated  t, began calling out at once, quot;Refress! time  for refress,quot; and falling off o it again  by t tried to give a display of s ime t only leaves but vines. tree people and circling  round t up o pusail ely entangled  and somet it ly grapes over and all  around.

    quot;Refress! Refress,quot; roared the old man.

    Everyone began eating, and ed sucigside, but  bursting into cool sness o your moute enoug, and rib table-manners at all. One saicky and stained fingers  everyill all of a sudden everyone felt at t t  tever it , ougo be over, and everyone flopped  dourned to Aslan to  .

    At t moment t rising and Lucy remembered someto Susan,  quot;I say, Su, I know whey are.”

    quot;ho?”

    quot;t you remember Mr tumnus telling us about them long ago?”

    quot;Yes, of course. But I say, Lu “

    quot;?”

    quot;I   safe   t Aslan.”

    quot;I s,quot; said Lucy.