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JILL felt sometickling o ip-toed back to ly s t cords t bound to do for o be caug on, after o it oo so kick it in among t buso Puzzle to follow hers.
the Ape was speaking again.
quot;And after a , Aslan - tas deal too good to you, coming out every nigo be looked at, see! ell, coming out any more.”
s o t suddenly a quite different voice broke in h a loud laugh.
quot; t; it sed. quot;e knoo bring . Ill tell you an old donkey s back. No and knoo do.”
tirian could not see t e certain of it ;Dont knoo do! Dont knoo do! Dont knoo do-o-o!”
quot;Silence!quot; tarkaan. quot;Silence, cen to me, you ot I give command to my o fall upon you old you of t tasable! Do you? Beware, beware.”
quot;No, no,quot; sed most of t t;ts rig it. Come on, Monkey, ss in table, seeing is believing.”
ts quiet t;You D you? But not so fast. I never said you couldnt see tashlan. Anyone who likes can see him.”
t. ter nearly a minute, t;I dont quite understand all t; it grumbled, quot;I t you said -”
quot;You t!quot; repeated t;As if anyone could call as coming out. You o go in and see him.”
quot;O; said dozens of voices. quot;ts ed!
e can go in and see o face. And no used to be.quot; And ttered, and tedly. t stirring and a noise of creatures rising to t, and in a second t of trying to croo table door all toget ted: quot;Get back! Quiet! Not so fast.”
ts stopped, many of tails h heads on one side.
quot;I t you said,quot; began t S interrupted.
quot;Anyone can go in,quot; ;But, one at a time. ? say since . muco go into t stable myself tonig just as you please. o go in first? Dont blame me if s you into a cinder error of s your affair. No? about one of you Dwarfs?”
quot;Dilly, dilly, come and be killed!quot; sneered Griffle. quot; youve got in there?”
quot;; cried t;So youre beginning to ts ruck you all dumb?
?”
But ts all stood looking at one anotable.
Very feails o and fro jeering at t;; ;I t you o see taso face! Changed your mind, eh?”
tirian bent o Jill rying to able?quot; s;; said tirian. quot;t, one on eac; quot;You dont t; said Jill, quot;it mig ; quot;tas; ;t courage, crue Aslan.”
t surprising t said in a cool, clear voice, not at all as if ed, quot;Ill go in, if you like.”
Every creature turned and fixed its eyes on t. quot;Mark tleties, Sire,quot; said Poggin to t;t is in t, in tre of it. ever is in table
again and say t he has seen some wonder.”
But tirian ime to anso come forward.
quot;; said t;So you, a pert Puss, blame me if he whiskers off your face.
ts your affair.”
And t got up and came out of its place in tily, s tail in t one s sleek coat out of place. It came on till it tirian, from table, could look rigo its face. Its big green eyes never blinked. (quot;Cool as a cucumber,quot; muttered Eustace. quot;It kno o fear.quot;) ttled across beside t: put up his paw: drew
t and opened tirian t purring as it o the dark doorway.
quot;Aii-aii-aou; t erwaul you ever heard made everyone jump.
You s quarrelling or making love on t: you knohe sound.
t of table at top speed. If you knoo the crowd.
No one s to meet a cat in t state. You could see animals getting out of o left and rigree, led out till it ood on end.
quot;Id give my beard,quot; o knoe is only acting or w frig!”
quot;Peace, friend,quot; said tirian, for tain and ted to t succeed, except t ;My ; but t t as puzzled by ts behaviour as himself.
quot;No; said tain. quot;Enoug noise. tell t t seen.”
quot;Aii - Aii - Aao.
quot;Art t called a talking Beast?quot; said tain. quot;talk.”
folloirian felt quite certain (and so did t t rying to say somet not of t-noises you migened old tom in a backyard in England. And teralking Beast tle s from among ther Animals.
quot;Look, look!quot; said t;It cant talk. It ten o talk! It o being a dumb beast. Look at its face.quot; Everyone sa it rue. And test terror of all fell upon taug urned ts of Narnia into talking Beasts and if t good t one day be turned back again and be like tless animals one meets in otries. quot;And no is coming upon us,quot; they moaned.
quot;Mercy! Mercy!quot; s. quot;Spare us, Lord S, stand bet alo , .”
Ginger disappeared furto tree. No one ever saw him again.
tirian stood and nigimes it to dra it ter to and see urn affairs migake. And nourn came.
quot;My Fat; came a clear, ringing voice from t of tirian kne once t it isrocs army t;My Masterquot; but t;My Fat;. Jill and Eustace didnt kno, after looking t, t to see t look ratall and slender, and even ratiful in ty, Calormene way.
quot;My Fat; o tain, quot;I also desire to go in.”
quot;Peace, Emet; said tain, quot;o counsel? Does it become a boy to speak?”
quot;My Fat; said Emet;truly I am younger t I also am of tarkaans even as t, and I also am t of tasherefore . . .”
quot;Silence,quot; said Risarkaan. quot;Am not I tain? t noto do able. It is for the Narnians.”
quot;Nay, my Fat; ans;t said t tas is trutas t I o do look once on tash.”
quot;t a fool and understandest not; said Risarkaan. quot;tters.”
Emeterner. quot;Is it t true t tas; he asked.
quot;o us?”
quot;Of course t; said the Ape.
quot;S, Ape,quot; said Emeth.
quot;O; ;I hering me. My head does ache.
Yes, yes, I s.”
quot;t; said Emet;I am utterly determined to go in.”
quot;Fool,quot; began Risarkaan, but at once ting: quot;Come along, Darkie. you let Narnians in and keep your o? in t you dont your oo meet?”
tirian and arkaan, so t ;Bear ness all t I am guiltless of t te.”
t as Ginger o trip of grass betable. , and like crying love tter god tash.”
quot;I do ; said Eustace.
Emet in, into table. s passed - but it seemed longer before t, fell on its back, and lay still: t. tain leaped to and bent doo stare at its face. art of surprise. turned to t: quot;tasake warning, all of you.”
quot;e ; said ts. But tirian and ared at t one anot t see: t Emete different: an older man, t so tall, h a big beard.
quot;; c;Any more? Anyone else to go in? ell, as youre all s. You, you Boar! On you come. Drive aso face.”
quot;O-o-mp; grunted to . quot;Come on, try my tusks.”
irian sa brave Beast getting ready to figs life - and Calormene soldiers beginning to close in on it ars - and no one going to its o burst inside moment to interfere or not.
quot;S,quot; o t;Arroring. Follow.”
Next moment tonis of table, four of t as above voice: quot;and I, tirian of Narnia, in Aslans name, to prove tasraitor, and to my side, all true Narnians. ould you till your neers have killed you all one by one?”