URE ENDED

    quot;LOOK at ; said Edmund.

    quot;Look at t; said Caspian.

    quot;A little  like a star,quot; said Drinian. quot; before.”

    quot;Seen it!quot; said Caspian. quot; is t Narnian house.

    tesians arm-ring.”

    quot;Villain,quot; said Reepico t;; But tly.

    quot;Or per; said Lucy, quot;tesian, turned into a dragon -  under an encment, you know.”

    quot;It neednt be eit; said Edmund. quot;All dragons collect gold. But I ts a safe guess t Octesian got no furthis island.”

    quot;Are you tesian?quot; said Lucy to t  sadly ss ;Are you someone enced - someone human, I mean?”

    It nodded violently.

    And ted after - quot;Youre not - not Eustace by any chance?”

    And Eustace nodded errible dragon ail in tions I  put  doing) to avoid tears which flowed from his  eyes.

    Lucy tried o console o kiss t;; and several assured Eustace t tand by o be some o ory, but  speak. More t  folloempted to e it for t, t place Eustace (never  books) o tell a story  straig o use o e and  built for ing any   nearly to tide came in and  ts rodden on or accidentaly sail. And all  t anyone s are for ts  I NEt tO SL EE . . . RGOS AGRONS I MEAN DRANGONS

    CAVE CAUSE It-AS DEAD AND AING SO hAR . . . OKE UP AND COU . . .

    GEt OFFF MI ARM OhER . . .

    It  Eustaces cer o  ainous and ined only by s and droves of  back many carcasses as provisions for too, for c ail so t it  didnt knoill doesnt kno e a fe  o let ot  in great triumpo camp a great tall pine tree s in a distant valley and al mast. And  in t turned c sometimes did after t to everyone, for ty

    sides and get   obstinate fire.

    Sometimes ake a select party for a fly on  ts, t- like valleys and far out over to t of darker blue on t be land.

    te neo ill more, of liking  ot kept Eustace from despair. For it like  afraid to be alone  o be  hers.

    On t being used as a -er bottle er. On sucly to  constant  comforter. t t doo to be out of t ace riking illustration  of turn of Fortunes

    ed in) s, poets, lovers, astronomers, py into t distressing circumstances, and of  did not, pering at time, but  it  and Eustace never forgot it.

    But of course o do o sail. tried not to talk of it  he deck?

    And ores to to  balance,quot; or, quot;ould to;ould o keep up by flying?quot;  and (most often of all), quot;But o feed ; And poor Eustace  realized more and

    more t since t day igated  nuisance and t er nuisance still. And te into   as t bracelet ate into  it only made it o tear at it  teet  earing no nights.

    About six days after to

    getting grey so t you could see tree-trunks if t not in tion. As   ly  he wood.

    t at once occurred to ;Are ives on ter all?quot; t it   t size - but  Caspian  to   moved.

    Edmund made sure t s place and to  investigate.

    ly to till  t it oo small for Caspian and too big for Lucy. It did not run  ao cranger ;Is t you, Edmund?”

    quot;Yes. ; said he.

    quot;Dont you kno; said t;Its me Eustace.”

    quot;By jove,quot; said Edmund, quot;so it is. My dear chap -”

    quot;; said Eustace and lurco fall.

    quot;; said Edmund, steadying ;s up? Are you ill?”

    Eustace  for so long t Edmund t ing; but at  last ;Its been gly. You dont kno its all rigalk some to meet t yet.”

    quot;Yes, rat; said Edmund. quot;e can go and sit on to see you - er - looking yourself again. You must  ty beastly time.”

    t to t do across t paler and paler and tars disappeared except for one very brighe horizon.

    quot;I  tell you ill I can tell t it all over,”

    said Eustace. quot;By t even kno ill I urned up  to tell you opped being one.”

    quot;Fire a; said Edmund.

    quot;ell, last nig beastly arm-ring  hing-”

    quot;Is t all right now?”

    Eustace laug laug easily off ;t is,quot; ;and  anyone , mind you, it may  know.”

    quot;Go on,quot; said Edmund, ience.

    quot;ell, any ted: a o t  nig t erribly afraid of it. You may t, being a dragon, I could   easily enough.

    But it  t kind of fear. I  afraid of it eating me, I  afraid of it - if you can understand. ell, it came close up to me and looked straigo my  eyes. And I s my eyes tig t  any good because it told me to follo.”

    quot;You mean it spoke?”

    quot;I dont kno you mention it, I dont t did. But it told  me all the same.

    And I kne told me, so I got up and follo. And  it led me a long o tains. And t over and  round t. So at last o top of a mountain Id  never seen before and on top of tain trees and fruit and  everyt there was a well.

    quot;I kne er bubbling up from ttom of it: but it  bigger t eps going doo it. ter  if I  could get in t  told me I  must undress first.

    Mind you, I dont kno.

    quot;I  going to say t I couldnt undress because I  any  clot t dragons are snaky sort of t  their skins.

    O I, ts arted  scratcctle deeper and, instead of just scales coming off arted  peeling off beautifully, like it does after an illness, or as if I e or t

    stepped out of it. I could see it lying ty. It  lovely feeling. So I started to go doo the.

    quot;But just as I o put my feet into ter I looked do t as ts all rig only means I  on underneat one, and Ill o get out of it too. So 1 scratcore again and tifully and out I stepped and left it lying beside t doo the.

    quot;ell, exactly t to myself, o to take off? For I o batcime and got off a t like tepped out of it. But as soon as I looked at myself in ter I kne had been no  good.

    quot;t I dont kno spoke - quot;You   me undress you.”

    I  I ty nearly  desperate no lay flat doo let .

    quot;t tear  I t it   into my .

    And . t made me able to bear it  tuff peel off.

    You kno s like  billy-o it is suco see it coming away.”

    quot;I knoly ; said Edmund.

    quot;ell, ly stuff rig as I t Id done  it myself times, only t  - and t  as a peeled sc  like t mucender underneat  Id no skin on - and to ter. It smarted like anyt only for a  moment. After t it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started surned into a  boy again.

    Youd told you  about my oty mouldy compared  I o see them.

    quot;After a bit took me out and dressed me -”

    quot;Dressed you. ith his paws?”

    quot;ell, I dont exactly remember t bit. But  on noter of fact. And t makes me t must have been a dream.”

    quot;No. It  a dream,quot; said Edmund.

    quot;?”

    quot;ell, ther.”

    quot; do you t ; asked Eustace.

    quot;I t; said Edmund.

    quot;Aslan!quot; said Eustace. quot;Ive  name mentioned several times since  reader. And I felt - I dont kno. But I o apologize. Im afraid Ive been pretty  beastly.”

    quot;ts all rig; said Edmund. quot;Bet trip to Narnia. You  I raitor.”

    quot;ell, dont tell me about it, t; said Eustace. quot;But who is Aslan? Do  you know him?”

    quot;ell - ; said Edmund. quot; Lion, t often. And it may be Aslans country o.”

    Neit brigar  see tains on t, t  urned t kind screamed in ts among trees, and finally a blast on Caspians ir.

    Great ored Eustace o  t circle round t of ory.

    People  no one, least of all Eustace  any desire to go  back to t valley for more treasure.

    In a fereader, remasted, re-painted, and ored,  o sail. Before to be cut on a smootwo narrow escapes

    DRAGON ISLAND DISCOVERED BY CASPIAN X, KING OF NARNIA, EtC. IN tESIAN  rue, to say t quot;from t time fortace  boyquot;. to be strictly accurate, o be a different boy. ill many days  most of t notice. the cure had begun.

    tesians arm ring e. Eustace did not  it  and offered it to Caspian and Caspian offered it to Lucy. S care about .  quot;Very cc; said Caspian and flung it up in tanding looking at tion. Up  t, and caugly as a , on a little projection  on to get it from beloo get  it from above. And t is ill and may ill  t world ends.