Chapter 1

['oreign children doing ex', ' the second Battle o', 'r her, but she could manage. His shoe', 'r performing animals. The', 't towards you. Her prow was gilded an', 'er had got a job lecturing i', 's hind legs and stood about two feet', 'd for an exam and ', ' without a break ', ' and said, "This\'ll ', ' would have got', 'edding present from someone she', 'the low cushioned benc', 'ich was a rich purple. The sides of', 'd grown much smaller or the picture had', 'ash, for Caspian immediately', 'was a rich purple', 'most as hard to believe when you saw', ' Narnia and he loved teasing', 'ded wings of the dragon ended-were gr', 'd her face as it does on a w', "He didn't call his Father", '. Edmund, who knew something about ', 'Its balance, as it paced grave', 'owards you. Her', '," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see i', 'warks, ropes being thrown. Edmund a', ' Edmund, "whether it doesn\'t ', 'hioned benches round thr', 'cheep, "even a question of honour mu', 'me dry things for myself"-he ', 'he ship into the wave and', ' you step outside," said', 'n your own home and they', 'll smash the rotten thing', ' and sea-boots were hopelessly b', "e diving off the ship's s", "water against the ship's sides and", '"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia and b', 'said Lucy. "And she is such a very Nar', ' cheerful smile. But Eust', ' he looked very ', 'le surprised. Some', 'y imagine that they talked about ', 'ack to Britain, as some peop', 'ing to spend the s', 'nce disliked his cou', ' manners courtly. Lucy and Edmun', ' knew at once by its exquisite delica', 'he wind came the noises-the swi', 'f, he did not approve of', 'e reason was that at', 'm, warning him to look', ' away," wailed Eustace.', 'd still come back to our world at the', 'arnia\nGot gradually balmier and b', 'it be made with distilled water', 'old passed round its hea', 'hard to believe when you saw it hap', 'ld see of them where the gilde', '\n"Am I to understand," sa', ' was to go with him because she h', 'd up. Eustace did nei', " Lucy. I'll just get some dry ", 'd came the noises-the sw', 'ck.\n\n"Hey! Rynelf," said ', 'o much money to take the other t', ' the waves in the pictu', 'aid Edmund.\n\n"Why d', 'back. You may imagine that t', 'would only yell out, "L', 'y. For deep down inside him he liked ', ' one glorious blue wave, and', 'ed it at once-Reepiche', 'ide. Edmund was close beside her now', 'd already said,', 'e things worse, looking at a Narn', 'housand Narnian years had ', 'r looks as if it was really wet', '. It was the only picture in', 'game or a dream, but in real', 'will. And I say the sooner t', 'heep, "even a question of honour mus', 'ust what one wanted, and as Lucy and Ed', 'e got blue and her teeth b', 'nd the water look', 'o your head that the left of a', ' there are dozens of ways t', ' them in Narnia itself tha', ' him was not glass but real', 'and anyway he insiste', 'Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t', 'self, twirled his whiske', 'in the war years. ', ' and her eyes open. They were ', 'mind going barefoot on board ship. When ', 'd the over-all h', 'much at home as ', ' world at the very same hour of the', ' their house there was very little fur', 'mation and had pictures of grain eleva', 'ace made faces and splu', ' made them in Narnia itself th', 'and anyway he insisted on being ', ' very same hour of the very same', ' had already said, "Yes, I d', 'was dragged forward. ', 'urs she had a bruised knee wh', 'y were very up-to-', 'eathless from t', 'look as if they were real', 'u went back to Narnia after spending ', 'ose, have a secr', 't valiant of all the', 'ecked with foam, and paler bl', 'ustace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him what an ', 'elicacy) and the flat gold image', 'e low cushioned benches round t', 'school work (though', 'nd of gold passed round its', 'recognised him too. All thr', ' or of fat foreign children doing ex', 'old days and was living in', ' the sea, and perhaps a glimp', 'ck to Narnia after spen', 'the nearer slope of that', 'anyway he insisted on bei', 'd always done, to take Reepicheep up', '."\n\n"Still playing your old game?" said', 'f the ship into ', 'tting to Narnia. And a promise, ', 'tly from ours. If you spent a hundred ', 'were dead and pinned on a card', ' playing your old gam', 're in for a lovely time.', ' they had grown much smal', 'as quite glad when he heard that Edmun', 'ible for the first time, and then', 'gar and-and sentimental."\n\n"Am I ', "n's sake don't let him get started abou", 'ce, turning to Eustace with his ch', 'dry things for myself"-he was rummagin', ' the second Battle of Beruna', 'grown bigger. Eust', 'above the bulwark', 'orry her, for in t', 'e could say anythi', ' he looked at the waves a', 's differently from ours. If you spe', 'all, and if you d', 'n other people in that respect', ' seemed a very long delay during which h', 'r, but she could m', ' inside him he liked bossing an', '. Something very ', 'ayed games about Narnia\nGot gradually', "he had been in Caspian's c", 'owed what seemed a very long delay durin', 'y tiny but bright with p', ' returned with the spiced wine steam', 'ia, you would still come', 'und and Lucy. Bu', ' for the first time, and then disappe', 'eeks, and the motion of the ship did no', 'e in your own home and they are only vis', 'y he insisted on being put', 'you are going to read this', 'me up again she saw a white figu', ' much smaller or the', "led him Scrubb. I can't tell you how his", "e didn't say anything. The rea", 'be your room, L', 'an assy-thingummy is," said Edmund. "He', 'share a bedroom wi', 'lue sky, both spreading without a', "and if you don't kno", 'ought to do who falls into deep wat', 'ring. In reality', ' and Mother "Father" and ', ' staring with open mouths.\n\n', 's full of greens and purples. On the ot', 'e knee to talk to h', 'reading without a', 'had jumped up beside him. There wa', ' said, "This\'ll be your r', 'es, if they were dead and pinned on', 'ry curious indeed had come out of th', 'ing again.\n\n"Do you like that pic', ' it they could feel the wa', 'd get far more out of a tr', ' week here, you might f', 'She had just run up to the top of one ', 'it was only a pict', ' in whose house thes', 'ht to do who falls ', 'y," said Reepicheep, "even a question of', '\n\n"Do you like t', 'way, the horrid thing."\n\nHe really h', 'c, which is the only way ', 'r in a panic and down ', ' humble duty to ', "ked if they hadn't any Plumptre", 'ourse they were talking ', 'ere luckier than other people in', 'er two who had jumped up bes', 'r was working very hard for an exam a', "Lucy's bedroom. What he ", 'dreaming.\n\n"Stop it', ' he almost deserved it', 'the over-all high, steady roar', 'nsequently, when the Pevensie childre', 'or feeling a little surprised. Someth', 's, ropes being thrown. Edmund and t', 'ted about Art and all that," said ', 'nly as far as the Isle of', 'y he insisted on being put asho', 's a right to cry wh', ' Edmund hurriedly, but Lucy, ', ' arms of the howlin', 'ds you. Her prow was ', 'ould have cost too much money t', 'g. The things in t', "this, but he didn't say anything. T", 'o that the water felt a great ', 'wn."\n\nOf course Eustac', 'ost black, the effect w', 'summer term. It is true that she w', 'he swinging silver lamp overhead (Dwar', " You'll need something", 'ip to America than the youngsters".', 'f King Arthur came back to Britai', 'who had jumped up beside h', " the ship's sid", ' above the bulwarks, ropes being thrown.', 'owering high above them, and peop', 'heaved up, and then the mis', 'd about it a good deal, when the', 'e, have a secret country but for', 'n right out of the ', 'who had been listening outside the', 's on an afternoon when Edm', 'y were breathless from ', 'After her Edmun', 'were talking about Narnia, which ', 'as stuck a long crimson feather. (A', 'here he looked very har', ' much more accustomed to ', ' at him from the other side and w', ' and people looking at her fr', 'other two who had jumped up beside ', 'ntry. Most of us, I suppose, have', 'ng to stay. For deep d', 'ace. "Something like this:\n\n"Some kids', '\n\n"Even looking is better than', 'urious indeed had come out of the c', ' the blue, swirling water as', ' herself as much at home as if she', " she had been in Caspian's cabin for w", 'wave, and the nearer slope', 'something about magic, spra', 'y get back. You may imagine that they', ' one knee to talk t', 'ng on the edge of her bed and looking', 'dmund recognised it at once-Reepicheep,', 'd then up went the wave', 'ove the door. All this she took in in ', 'mier and balmier--', "n below and get changed. I'll give you u", 'son was that a gr', 'they are only visitors.\n\nEd', ' ship into the wave and up went a great ', ' read it in print, but it wa', 'se and sailed t', ' assy-thingummy is," said Edmund. "H', ' out-of-door for that. D', 'e had still been in that house', 'side Edmund on the bed flapped, rose and', 'large, square sail which was a ', " are playing. Stop it. I'll tell Albert", 't off the wall and fou', 'g without a break to the horizon.', ' on which you left.', ' come back to our world at the very same', 'to share a bedroom with tha', 'd masters calle', 'nted panels (all ', ' playing your old game?" said Eus', ' at the very same hour of the ', 'owding together above the bulwarks, rop', 'e next wave came to meet her', 'ad been staying with the Pevensies, he h', 'temper. "It\'s some sill', 'how his friends spoke to him, for he ha', 't, besides being wet throu', ' and Edmund sipped it they ', ' them in Narnia ', 'd gone. Grown-ups thoug', 'entures, but, just exactly a', ' almost as hard to believe when', 'of a limerick," said Eustace', 'Ugh, take it awa', '"And she is such a very Narnian', 'n on one knee to talk to him.\n\nReepich', ' stood up even to Lucy, let alone Edmun', 'in the poop and was slowl', ' after a long stare at Eustace, "that', 'd not to grudge Susan her', 'g in a small cottage with only one bedr', 'our Majesty. And to King', 'k. He lost his head and c', ' and clutched at', 'job lecturing in America for sixt', 'cret country but for most of us i', 'hard to believe when you s', 'she is such a very Narnian ship."\n\n"St', "e have no women's clothes on board", 'on is," said Edmu', 'p went a great shock of spray', 'ason was that at that very moment he', 'ed and shaped like the h', " their Majesties. You'll need somet", 'ook hands and clapped', 'been lying beside Ed', ' went down on one knee to t', ' faces and spluttered and spat i', 'e the noises-the swishing of waves and ', ' during which her face go', 'jumped up beside him. There was a seco', ' of Narnia whom the', ' all their best endeavours she had a br', ' they and Peter and', 'ous venture."\n\n"Ugh, take i', 'out and was sick again and began', 'stare at Eustace, "that this s', 'and bad temper. "It\'s some s', ' for an exam an', ' and was slowly approaching them. You', ' it was a Mouse on its hind legs and s', 'ng with the Pevensies, h', 'her people in that respect', 's time. Narnian time flows differentl', 'rn and her deck became vi', " back. I don't l", 'd shouting, and just as they tho', ' of her window at the water rushing', 'ere are dozens of ways to give people', 'mund both sneezed.\n\n"', 'ached by old Professor Kirke in who', 'ay on which you left. And', ' an imaginary country. Edmun', 'as the water got into his mouth.\n\nLucy ', "lean. Caspian's clothes we", 'hapter I\n\nTHE PICTURE IN ', 'the rotten thing,"', 'untry. Most of us', ' she "would get far mo', ' Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEustace r', 'hool work (though otherwise v', 'had grown much smaller or the ', 'at she would hav', 'they were waiting till the mom', 'n board ship. When she had ', '. And this was a windy day; bu', 'ic and down they both wen', 'reaks and bubbles on it. She was obv', 'starboard side, and said, "Thi', 'hey came up again sh', 'd Lucy their Maj', 'erhaps we can h', ' the noises-the swishing of waves ', 'cy found herself passing thro', 'vensies, he had managed to hear ', ' the windows were always open.\n\nEustac', 'question is," said Edmund, "whether', 'ay," wailed Eustace. "I hate mice.', 'up round them, s', '"Still playing your old gam', ' "would get far more out of a ', 'ofessor Kirke in whose house these', 'nised it at once-Reepicheep, ', ' summer term. It is true that she woul', 'full of greens and purples. On the oth', ' of answers to this', ' did not worry her, for in the old da', ' was perfect, and its ma', "e your room, Lucy. I'll just ", 'r above the bulwarks, ropes being thr', ' it," came Eustace\'s voice, squeaky wit', 'thes were too big for', 'ater looks as if it was really ', 'id Reepicheep t', 'things in the picture were m', 'gilded and shaped like the head of a dra', 'ne of the family and she wa', 'the warmth going right down t', ' in that house he w', 'in the second B', 'ate and secret country.', '(Here he bowed again.) "Nothing ex', 'iend?" said Caspian almost a', 'ier and balmier-', 'e very same day on which you le', 's just what one wanted', ' this she took in ', 'timental."\n\n"Am I to underst', 'her window at the ', ' And suddenly with the wind ', 'liant of all the', 'ashed against its side. Even wi', "asked. Say nothing and perhaps he'll g", ' Isle of Wight) and had', 'myself"-he was rummagi', ' Isle of Wight) and had been ', ' a puny little person who cou', 'almost at once, turning to Eustace wit', 'fter a long sta', 'friends spoke to ', ' I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" ', 'perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost boy', 'e the other three all to America, and', 'ad pictures of grain', 'ould have got o', 'the family and she was no good at sch', 'r Caspian it was; Caspian, the boy ', 'm on and in a few minutes Luc', 'water got into ', 'ould be got on board the ', '(and then only as far as the Isle', 't bright with painted panels (all ', 'ship sailing nea', 'he had managed ', "u won't see it if you", 't Alberta. But it r', 'lf.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" gas', 'nly as far as th', 'for the first time, and t', 'as the name of their own private and ', ', had already said, "Yes, I do. I like', 'an years had passed, or on', 'were talking about Narnia, which was t', 'isitors.\n\nEdmund and ', 'e picture frame hanging above the', 'now, treading w', 'her and Mother "Father', 'gether above the bulwarks, ropes bei', 'least have a room of your', ' sea, and perhaps ', 'vensies, he had managed', 'ught us, Brother," whispered Casp', " all, and if you don'", 'ate and advanced people. They were ve', 'Eustace rushed to ', 's called him Eu', 'ave a room of your own and I shall have ', "s'll be your room, Lucy. ", 'se. It had won undyi', "et changed. I'll give y", ' imaginary country. Edmun', '. The reason was that a great col', 'than the youngste', 'ng put ashore at the next station.\n\n"Thi', 't would have offended him deeply.', 'tinker, Eustace."\n', 'an, Edmund and Lucy', ' him.\n\nReepicheep put fo', ' during which her ', 's," said Caspian. "Come', ' water looks as if it was really wet', 'her; the colours were too real and clea', "answers to this, but he didn'", ' the waves in the picture made him fe', ' that they talke', 'f her window at the water ru', ' money to take the other three a', ' real and clean and out-of-doo', ' face as it does on a ', 'for an exam and he was ', 'w already, you had be', 'Majesty. And to King Edmund, too." (Here', 'ere was a lot of shouting go', 'dripping and shiverin', 'ost his head and clutche', 'es-the swishing of waves and the ', 'but in reality. They had got there of co', 'Eustace."\n\nThe sto', 'venience of a lady," said Reepicheep,', 't know already, yo', 's and clapped o', ' were still quite near the ship; she saw', 'e luckier than other people in that res', 'of Wight) and had be', 'im deeply. Instead, she went down on on', ' boy of his age has a right to cry when', ' had got there of', 'ks and bubbles on it. She was obvio', '. It had won undying glory in the seco', ' spend the summer holidays at the', ' all want to come and s', 'agged forward. And by this time eithe', 'etter than nothing," said Lucy. "And sh', 'like the head of a dragon with wide open', ' picture. Edmund, who knew something abo', 'r slope of that wave came down to', ' piping voice:\n\n"My humble duty to ', 'd wall above the door. All ', 'e Susan her luck', ' delicacy) and the flat gold im', 'temper. "It\'s some silly trick you ', 'nd both sneezed.\n\n"', 'ed it twice; not in', 'f you are going to read this story at a', 'but for most of us it i', 'e the other three all', 'and Narnian years had ', 'hes. She even ke', "in of course, Lucy, but I'm afraid we", " your room, Lucy. I'll just ", 'ich was the name o', ' it was almost as hard to b', 'rning him to look out and not to b', 'd shivering, on the deck.', 'like it."\n\n"Let yo', 'information and had pictures o', 'e in your own home a', 'They had already visited it twice; not ', 'y were books of ', 'hen she had finished dressing she l', ' one thing," said Lucy, "I like it beca', 'away," wailed Eustace. "I ha', 'on is," said Edm', ' the summer holidays at their Au', 'nt of him was not glass but rea', 'piced wine for their Majesties. You', 'had just run up to the', 'uring their last visit. I', 'Father" and "Mother", but Harold a', 'ttle of Beruna. Lucy longed, a', ' His parents called him', 'ia after spending a week here, ', 'ttle of Beruna. Lucy longed, as she ha', "n't like it at all (that ", 'had managed to hear ', ' not mind going barefoot on boar', ' like this:\n\n"Some kids who played gam', 'l in love with it at once-the th', 'e picture. Edmund,', 'le on her port side. (By the way, if yo', ' "And she is such a very Na', 'ed her stars that she had ', 't his head and clutched at the other', 'l, which really convinced Luc', 'se than a wetting has happened to', ' it because it had been a wedding ', 'f a dragon with wide open m', "on earth's that", 'had been a queen i', 'te and advanced ', 'dmund hurriedly, b', 'under one ear and over th', 'reat cold, salt splash had', ' other three all to America,', 'om they had helped to set on the throne', 'struggling and shouting, and just as ', 'nged, as she had always done, to tak', 'ust exactly as Eustace Clar', 'talking again.\n\n"Do ', 'indeed as if they were goin', 'e of that.\n\n"You\'re not wanted here,', '\n\n"But who is you', 'rniture and very few clothes', 'owards the picture. Edmund, wh', 'high, steady roar of air and water. Bu', 't quite sure they were in f', 'able Eustace. Last of all came the str', 't too much money to tak', 'ir last visit. Immediately Edm', 'ensie children had returned to Narnia la', "nd asked if they hadn't any Plum", 'dmund and Lucy did not at all want to c', 'eat delight.\n\n"But who is your ', ' feet, and drew them down', 'es in model schools.\n\nEustace Clare', 'ause the ship looks as ', ' sick again. He turned rather green and', 'the deck. Then, as one mi', 'en disappeared as the next wav', "Majesty's protection? Because, if", ' caught the arms', ' say anything more Eu', 'spreading without a break to the ho', ' benches round three sides o', 'grinning, and presently began talkin', 'er blue sky, both spreading w', ' on board the ship ', 'ate and advanced people. They were v', 'to cry when nothing worse than a wet', ' and Edmund recognised i', '\n\nHe really had some excuse this', 'sitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy d', 'traight towards you. Her prow w', 'ame to meet her and her', " If you'll fling your wet things outs", 'other three all to America,', 'n private and secret country. Most', 'ul adventures l', ' to try to pull it off the', 'ed it twice; no', 'ld and Aunt Alberta. But it', ' house there was very little furniture', 't. His parents called hi', 'pray. And then up we', 'o stay. But he had somehow becom', ' four silver cups. It was just ', 'ring with open mouths', 'g about Narnia, which w', 'g with the Pevensies, he had man', 'f the picture towards them. And sudd', ' and the over-all high, steady roar o', 'rame and they were breathless from the s', 'f the dragon ended-were green. She had ', 'and crimson dragons and ', 'ey could feel the warmth going ', ' if you step out', 'and striking.) It', 'eason was that a great cold, sa', 'ey had got there of course by', 'ou how his friends spo', 'as lacking to this glor', 's some people say ', ' that followed what seemed a very long', 'Lucy.\n\n"Well, for ', ' just as they thought they had got thei', '. It is true that she would have got ', 'es on it. She was obviously run', "Lucy, but I'm afraid we have no wo", 'ard. And by this time either ', 'deck. Then, as one ', 'ly way of gettin', 'e top of one glorious blue wave', 'Britain, as some people say he ', 'nd "Mother", but Harold and Alberta', 'ime if you are in yo', 'urniture and very few clothes on ', ' very dark, almost ', ' a panic and down they both went.\n\nWhe', ' the Lion on the forward wall abov', 'ship."\n\n"Still p', ' above the sea, and perhaps a glimpse o', 'reen side towering high abov', 'o do who falls into deep wa', 'side towering hi', ' want to offend.\n\nIt was a picture o', ' sunlight fell on her from that ', 'with only one bedroom to spare. It wo', ' of struggling and shouting, a', 'xam and he was to s', 'ready said, "Yes, I', 'y, or no time at all. You ', 'and also that the water felt ', 'meeting a reception like this, would eit', 'lidays being co', 'f they were books of information a', 'd one large, square sail which was a r', ' of that wave came down to', 'exactly as Eustace Clarence', '\n\nEustace Clarence', 'he four Pevensies, ', 'ture frame hanging abo', 'n it. She was obviously ', 'em in Narnia itsel', 'hey might to a rock', 'rich purple. The sides of the ship-what', 'came visible for the first', 'd as the water got into his mouth.\n\n', 'him. There was a second of struggling ', 'dmund and Lucy tried not to gru', 's) as if King Arthur came back to Brita', 'f it because it had been a wedding pre', 'proaching them. You might call it-an', 'e next station.\n\n"This is a merry ', "side the door I'll", 'at they would some day g', 'in print, but it was almost as hard to ', ' door and now came gr', 'you might find that a tho', ' fur was very dark, almo', 've way-at least for the momen', 'ur came back to Britai', 'epicheep up in her arms and cudd', 'and would only yell out, "Let', '\n\n"You won\'t see it if you step outsi', 'ave had them all to stay. But', 's that looked out on the bl', 'their feet, and drew them down into ', ' Lion on the fo', 'oard ship. When she had finished d', 'ow of the ship.\n', 'lse, whose face was vagu', 't boys, on meeting a reception lik', 'ork (though otherwise very old for he', 's but real sea, and wind and ', 'cried Eustace; and then several th', ' blowing out of t', " shipmate you've brought", 'w its green side towering h', 's and clapped one a', 'pecially beetles, if t', ' and as Lucy and Edmund', 'ay-at least for ', 'at she would have got on much better if ', 'two were much more accust', 'rve Food and could', 'r to the wall behind him, and Lu', "and balmier don't rhyme, to begin ", 'ey were dead and pinned on a card. He ', "ing animals. They're silly and vulgar", 'aves rushing up to the frame as the', " on earth's that! Take it away,", 'ce the old days and was livin', 'hattering. In reality the delay w', 'new, was a pleasure she could never h', 'er luck, but it was ', 'ing put ashore at the ', 'They were vegetarians, non-smokers and ', 'r of air and water. But it', 'ck. He lost his head and clutched at ', 'galley to be dried."\n\nLucy found ', 'ans) as if King Arthur', 'l, for one thing,"', 'nd and Lucy did not at all want t', 'p-a ship sailing nearly straight towards', 'rnia\nGot gradually balmier and balmier-', 'Lucy as soon as she had bre', 'o Narnia after spending a week h', 'st of us it is o', 'ge of her bed and looking at a pic', 'd and Lucy their Majest', 'd manage. His shoes, sa', 'epicheep, "even a qu', ' at their Aunt\'s. "', ' on the beds an', 'ir feet, and drew them down', 'how his friends ', 'eir house there was very little ', ' and, though he was a pu', 'ed games about Narnia\nGot gra', ' a reception like this, would eith', '-he was rummaging in on', ' off their feet, and drew t', 'own went the prow of the ship into the', 'p outside," said Edmund.', 'ward. And by th', 'e her now, treading wa', 'elevators or of fat fore', "don't let him get start", 'ulwarks, ropes being t', ' when they got the chance.', 'cy and Edmund recognised it at onc', 'ear and over the other and in this w', 'gularly discourteous person is under y', 'd been a wedding present ', 'ripping and shivering, on the deck. ', 'accustomed to adventures, bu', 'them all to stay. But he had somehow', 'rds you, with streak', 'w become poor since the old days and w', 'hanked her stars that ', 'dmund was heaved up, and then ', ' she had worked hard at her swimming la', 'ce Clarence liked', 'she could never have: it wou', 'ng with open mouths.\n\nW', 'round her. After that', 'sly big but she did not m', 'wall. It was the only picture in t', ' a panic and down they ', 'roller surged up round t', 'e other two who had jumped up beside', 'rs that she had worked hard at her s', 'cturing in America', 'were always open.\n\nEusta', ', which was the name of ', ' front of him w', 'w rested on the hilt of a sword very nea', 'ow already, you had better get', ' Britain, as some people ', 'ar years. If he had still been in', 'e-"and then leave you to c', ' the wave and up w', 'utside the door I', 'g barefoot on board ship.', ' face got blue and her teeth began', 'd to King Edmund', 'out Narnia, which was the', 'she "would get far more out of a trip to', "top it. I'll tell A", 'id Edmund, "because you\'ll at least ha', " a glimpse of Lucy's bedroom. What h", 'hen she had been a queen in Narnia she', 'n with wide open mouth. She had', 'Alberta-ow!"\n\nThe other two we', "dn't be helped. Father had go", 'e it away," wailed Eus', 'cost too much money to take the other t', 'or most of us it is ', 'arks, ropes being thrown', ' little surprised. Something v', ' They had already visited it twice; not ', 'came to meet her and her b', 'was really wet. And the waves look', '-the three squar', ' their toes. But Eustace made faces ', 'Wight) and had been horribly seasick', 'hip into the wave and up went a g', ' she had worked har', 's hind legs and sto', ' felt a great deal cold', 'is is a merry shipmate ', '"It\'s an assonance," s', 'k. He was promptly sick.', 'hat they were making it a', 'ull it off the wall and ', 'manage. His sho', 'hip-what you could see of them whe', 'een a queen in Narnia she had done', 'rotten thing," cried E', 'ost of us, I suppose, have a secre', 'othing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost', "ll be your room, Lucy. I'll just get so", 'tood about two feet high. A thin ban', ' next station.\n\n"This is a merry shipmat', 'nd I never coul', 'o your head tha', ' believe when you saw it', 'as a rich purple. Th', ', the effect was bold and stri', 'as vaguely familia', 'luck, but it was dreadful having to s', 'ooking at a pictur', 'old for her age) an', 'ing. The reason was that at that v', 'ly big but she did not mind', 'in.\n\n"Do you like that pi', 'ry things for myself"-he was r', 'as a puny little pe', 'ull of greens and purples', 'spiced wine for their M', 'e same time. Eustace rushe', 'all standing he', ' and crimson dr', ' The things in the picture were moving', 'promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! Rynel', 'hispered Caspian to Edmund with a ch', ' thousand Narnian yea', ' wall above the doo', 'll to America, and Susa', ' and vines) and spotlessly ', ', and her stern and her', 'lped to set on the throne during the', ' out of the frame and they were', 'r, and Mother was to go with him ', "ho couldn't have sto", 'in was very tiny but bright with pa', 'Eustace."\n\nThe story begins on an', 'k to him.\n\nReepicheep put forward his ', ' the gilded wings of t', "mptree's Vitaminised Nerv", 'the delay was not very long; they were', 'my is," said Edmund. "He', 'r of fat foreign childre', 'ee when she fina', 'nted, and as Lucy and Edmund', 'heart sank. He was promptly sick.\n\n', 'a bedroom with that record stinker, Eust', ' But Eustace was crying much harde', 'blue and her teeth began chatteri', 'at the water rushing past and', 'ting over a litt', 'er arms and cuddle him. But this, as she', 'dmund. "He\'s only longi', 'age of Aslan th', ' cabin in the poop and ', ' moment Lucy and E', 'r weeks, and the motion of ', 'ging above the sea, and pe', 's about Narnia\nGot gradually balmier ', ' lost his head and clutched at t', '."\n\n"Ugh, take ', ' being put asho', 'a real holiday for t', 'salt splash had broken right ', 'g through the door in', 'her shoes off, as ev', '. Even with all their best endeavours sh', 'ngs of the dragon e', 'always done, to take Reepicheep up in h', 'et country. Most', ' fool I am to keep you all ', ', as it paced gravely along', 'k of a limerick," said Eustac', "spian's clothes were too big", 'ir last visit. ', 'he would have had them all to sta', 'humble duty to y', 'to your Majesty. And to King Edm', 'bout Art and all ', 'door and now came grinning into t', 'had a real holiday for ten ', 'eople in that respect. Their sec', ' bowed, kissed her hand, str', ' Britain, as some people s', ' deal, when they got the chance.\n\nThey w', 'ly stood, dripping and shivering, on th', 'ter that followed what seemed a very l', 'dy visited it twice; not in a gam', 'summer term. It is tru', 'ustace. Last of all came the str', 'r me," said Edmund', "(As the Mouse's fur was ve", ' Then, as one might have expected, Eust', 'hat side, and the water on', 'or for that. Down wen', ' you left. And the', 'ugh the air to the wall behind him, a', 'next station.\n\n"This is a merry', 'His parents called', ' once-Reepicheep, the most ', ' grabbed at him from the other side an', 'them taken to the galley to be d', 'f them where the gilded wings of t', 'bly seasick. The look of', 'ide, and the water on that side wa', 'f that.\n\n"You\'re no', 'ime if you are in your own home ', ' the wall behind him, and Lucy ', 'lf.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspi', "Caspian's cabin for weeks", 'd neither. He just hung about grinnin', 'ected to see the pi', ' sick again. He turned rather green an', 'eady, you had better get it int', 'the frame; in front of him was no', 'g," said Lucy, "I li', 'bout Narnia\nGot gra', 'of him was not glass but r', 't two feet high. A thin band of g', 'd at the very same hour of the very same', 'ome day get back. You may imagine tha', 'e edge of her bed and looking at ', 'ly Edmund recognised him too. All three ', 'avely along the swaying de', 'mile. But Eustace was cry', 'on below and ge', " been in Caspian's cabin for weeks, a", ' ship. When she had finished dressing s', ' looked while it was only ', 'xercises in model schools.', 'r the other and in this was stu', 'about grinning, and presently bega', ' anything. The reason was that at', 'ing exercises in mo', 'ce Clarence disliked his', 'ord stinker, Eustace."\n\nThe ', 'at he saw was blue waves flecked w', ' Most of us, I suppose', 'ike this, would either hav', "ustace's despairing cry sudden", 'ter on that side was full ', 'rnian years had passed, or onl', '. For Caspian it was; Caspian, the ', 'pened to him, and would ', 'why it was put a', ' see it if you step ', ' king of Narnia whom they', ' till the moment when she', 'ad a bruised knee when she finally s', ' he was quite glad when he', ' going right down to their', "rubb. I can't tell ", "erson who couldn't have", 'ater, and had caugh', 'sty. And to King Edmund, too." ', 'for the Narnians) as if Ki', 'king Beasts of Narn', ' her the pretty one of the family and sh', ', and just as they thought ', 'then, if you went back to Narnia after ', 'ome kids who played games', "e on below and get changed. I'll gi", 'y discourteous pe', ' look. And then all', 'a either; the colours were too', 's better than nothing," said ', 'uddle him. But this, as she', ' said Eustace.\n\n"Y', 'eir second visit, ', '\'ll tell Alberta-ow!"\n\nT', ' "would get far more out of a trip ', 'e and sailed th', ' Susan had all been Kings and', ' out of the pictur', ' (though otherwi', "d get changed. I'll give you up", '\n"Stop it," came Eustace\'s vo', 'swaying deck, was perfect, an', 'y after a long sta', 'the right is starboard.) All the sunlig', 'queaky with frig', 'getting to Narnia. And a promise, or ve', 't have a room of your ow', ' that at that ve', "me Eustace's voice, squeaky wi", 'ht to a rock. He lost his head and clut', 'th painted panels', ' Edmund recognised it at on', 'he ship into the wave and ', ' made him feel sick again. He turned rat', 'e a cinema either; the col', 'aw its green side towering', 'dy," said Reepi', ' they came up agai', 'ock. He lost his head and clutch', 'anything. The reason was that at t', 'for the first time, and', 'ily and she was no good at schoo', 'llow."\n\n"To the co', "nimals. They're silly and ", 'd the nearer slope of that wave', 'e Clarence said "Ow," they both', "g. Stop it. I'll te", 'larence liked animals, especially beetl', 'ndows that looked out on the blue, sw', ' non-smokers and teetotallers and', 'orry her, for in the o', 'tace clutched at her in a panic an', 'as full of green', ', and the nearer ', 'he frame as they might to ', 'ing on the frame; ', 'd down they both went', 'a great deal colder than ', 'stay. For deep down inside him he', 'he did not approve of that.\n\n"You\'re n', 'ite glad when he heard that Edmu', 'etter.\n\nRynelf returned with th', ' wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash', 'of us it is only', ' was living in a small ', 'ning outside the', 'nd anyway he insisted on being put asho', ' of course they were talk', 'f, as everyone ought to do who falls ', 'Peter was working very hard for ', 'advanced people. They were veget', ' shaped like the head of a dragon with', ' on the back with great', 'aspian it was; Caspia', 'e effect was bold and stri', ' the ship, heads crowdi', 'e swaying deck, was perfect, and it', 'some years older than herse', "cause you'll at least ha", 'ay. For deep down inside him he like', 'd very nearly as long as its tail.', 't was put away in a littl', 'erica, and Susan had', "d asked if they hadn't any Plumptree'", 'ut before he could say anyth', 's the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmu', 'ce:\n\n"My humble duty ', 'ns and vines) and spotlessly clea', '. But Eustace made', "wers to this, but he didn'", 'he had none. He', '\n"It\'s a rotten picture," said ', 'lecturing in America f', ' another look. And then all three ch', 'also that the water fe', 'urs were too real and clean and out-', 'nd Lucy. But he was quite glad whe', 'oar of air and water', 'e stern cabin. She fell i', 'he will. And I say the soon', ' children had had wo', 'em off their feet, and drew them ', '" said Eustace Clarence, who had been l', 'ed, as she had always done, to take Reep', 'that they were making it', 'on below and ge', ' Lucy as soon as she had', ' take it away," wailed Eustace. "I', 'hat the water felt a great de', 'd Lucy. "And she is ', 'in and began to cry again and aske', 'ship without being dashed against its si', 'mell, the wild, briny smell, which rea', 'ight to a rock. ', 'to the top of one glorious blu', 'y found herself passing through th', "erhead (Dwarfs' work, she knew at on", ' not at all want to come and stay', 'fter spending a week her', "e picture were moving. It didn't l", 'emed a very lon', 'rm under her from', 'cy found herself as', 'rew back his right, bowed', 'only a picture. S', 'd would only yell ', 'd as the next wave came to meet', 'they could feel the warmth goin', 'them down into the sea. Eusta', ' all the Talking Beast', ' at all (that was w', ' offend.\n\nIt was a pict', "dn't say anything. The reas", 'once been in a ship (and then only a', ' that record stinker, Eustace."\n\nThe', '\n"But who is your friend', 'rved it. His parents called him Eustac', ' Eustace. "Something lik', 'he throne during their last visit. I', 'up again she saw a white figure ', 'whose face was va', 'f King Arthur came back to B', 's-the swishing of waves and the slap ', 'aid Edmund. "He\'s ', "lberta didn't like it at ", 'y cabin of course,', 'him. But this, a', 'ened at the same time. ', 'Alberta. They were very up-to-date a', 'otten thing," cried Eustac', 'y were stealing a f', ' and could it be made with dist', 'even a question of honour must', ' called Eustace Clarence Scrub', 'ing your old game?" said Eus', 'And this was a windy day; but t', ' to read this story at all', ' she had a bruised knee when sh', 'n\'t call his Father and Mother "Father', 'o share a bedroom with', 'o be asked. Say nothing and perhaps h', 'rd.) All the sunlight f', 'for the Narnians) as if King Arthur', 'urs she had a bruised kne', 'ng and the over-a', ' and just as they though', ' in a small cottage w', 'ed to set on the throne during t', 'de. Edmund was close besid', ' horribly seasick. Th', 'galley to be dried', '(for the Narnians) as if King Arthur cam', " won't see it if you step outside,", "water against the ship's sides an", 'things happened at the same ti', 'to take Reepicheep up i', 'd her eyes open. They we', 'inally stood, dripp', '." He called Edmund and Luc', "me on below and get changed. I'", 'to Narnia after spending a week her', ' and Alberta. They ', 'head of a dragon with wide open', 'd, Eustace clutched at her in a panic an', 'rom ours. If you spent a hundred ', 'ward his left leg, d', 'shed dressing s', ' and bad temper. ', ' wall. It was t', 'd. Something very curious ', "ties. You'll need", 'nced Lucy that she was not dreamin', 'er in their clothes. She even kept her ', 'epicheep, "even a ', 'ted panels (all bi', "change. If you'll fling yo", 'visited it twice; not in a game or a dr', 't ashore at the next station.\n\n"This is ', 'and said, "This\'ll be your room, Luc', ' out of the frame and they were bre', 'm and he was to spend', 'a golden-headed boy', 't would have cost too ', ' the chance.\n\nThey we', 'poop and was slowly approachi', 'hey might to a rock. He', 'rold and Aunt A', '"would get far more out of a t', ' vines) and spotlessly clean.', ' long before his time. Narnian t', ' was; Caspian, the boy king of N', 'wide open mouth.', 'ing. In reality the', 'very hard for an ', '.\n\nEustace Clarence disliked his cous', ' beetles, if th', ' above them, and people l', 'oking at a Narnian ship when you c', 'lower stroke, and also th', ' if they were really', 's," said Edmund. "H', 'hanked her stars that she had w', 'aid Eustace. "Somet', 'cheep, the most valiant of ', ' hind legs and st', 't of all the Ta', ' at school work (thou', ' it at all (that was why', 'an years had passed, ', 'endeavours she had a', 'ng in America for sixte', 'hree square windows', 'and the nearer slope of', ' passed round its', ' during their last visit. Im', 'ildren were staring with open mouths.', 't. She was obviously run', 't it was dreadful having to spend the ', 'ne a good deal of voyaging. Th', 'board the ship without being dashed', 'ain, as some people ', 'e windows that looked ', 'edge of her bed and looking at a pictu', 'ue waves flecked with ', ' out of her window at the water rush', 'ork (though otherwise ver', 'ys open.\n\nEustace Clarence', 'smash the rotten thing," cr', ', sitting on the edge of her bed a', 'her face as it does on a windy d', "ing. Stop it. I'll tell Alber", ' this glorious ven', 'g. The reason was that at that very ', ' talking again.\n\n"Do you like that pic', 'nd looking at a picture on the opposite ', 'ion of the ship did not wor', 'picture?" he as', ', she kept her head and kicked ', 'e most valiant of all the Talk', " rushed to the ship's side, as i", ' for sixteen weeks that summer', ' Lucy tried not to gr', 'believe when you saw it happeni', 'n nothing worse th', 'shadow of the ship.\n\n"The question is', ' the holidays being coached by old Prof', 'omething to warm you after that', 'ustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one th', 'nd, though he was a ', 'ick again and began to cry a', ' towards you. Her prow was gilde', 'side, and said, "This\'ll be ', 'flat gold image of A', 'ised. Something very curious ', " didn't say any", 'dows were always', ' present from someone she', ' the noises-the swishing of waves an', "hey're silly and vu", 'was obviously ru', 'nd as Lucy and Edmund s', 'ey got the chance.\n\nTh', 'g them about it. He thought o', 'shouting going on from the s', 'ard for an exam ', 'd to believe when you saw it happening', 'sk him what an assy-th', 'uth shut and her eyes open. They w', 'he howling Eustace. Then someone ', 'ay get back. You may i', 'indow at the water rushing past and took', 'urse Eustace knew lots of answers t', 'th Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But ', 'ther look. And then all three ', ' in a panic and down the', "sked. Say nothing and perhaps he'll", 'ecious minutes alone together. And o', 'er," whispered Caspian to Edmund with a ', 'xcept your Maje', 'oon when Edmund and Lucy were stea', 'fternoon when Ed', 'one glorious bl', 'ried Eustace; and then several things h', 'and clean and out-of-door for th', 'elf as much at ho', 'er people in th', 'nd began to cry again and asked if ', 'they were really going up and down."\n', 's, and said in his shrill, piping voice:', 'you are going to read this story a', 'when you saw it happening.', ' for that. Down went', 'he could say anything more Eu', 'r that dip." He called Edmund ', 'd her stern and her deck became vi', '"\n\n"Even looking is better th', 'of the very same d', 'But then it was', ' with wide open mouth. She had only one ', 'hing up himself, he did ', 'a right to cry when ', 'he deck. Then, as', 'ous minutes alone together. And of cour', 's went up again. At the same mome', ' her mouth shut and her eyes open', "I'm afraid we have ", 'ustace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him what a', 'he convenience of a lady," said', 'the frame; in front of him was not gla', 'd Lucy that she was not dreaming.\n\n"S', 'ng Arthur came b', ' mouths.\n\nWhat the', ' up my cabin of course, L', 'ree sides of the table, the swinging s', ' nothing," said Luc', "r their Majesties. You'll n", 'ious blue wave, and the ', 'ides of the table, t', ' (and then only a', 'd flapped, rose and sailed th', 'the way, if you are going to rea', 'E IN THE BEDROOM\n\nT', 's. If you spent a hundred year', ' ship-what you could see of them where ', 't\'s. "But it\'s far worse for m', '. She had only one mast and o', ' painted panels (all birds and beasts a', 'ous indeed had come o', 'rstand," said Reepicheep to Lucy after ', 'dly, but Lucy, who was very', 'then the miserable Eustace', 'stace. Then someone else, whose ', 'rse Eustace knew lots of ans', 'd Lucy as soon as she had brea', " balmier don't rhyme, to ", 'f you went back', 'offended him deeply. Instead, she ', 'anic and down they both we', ' off the wall and', ' at once-the three square wi', ' colder than it had looked whi', 'alking again.\n\n', 'nd was dragged forward. An', ' Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a f', 'ose face was vaguely familiar', 's right, bowed, kissed her hand', 'nt from someone she ', 'ucy and Edmund recognised', '"You won\'t see it if you step outside,"', 'ing to spend the summer hol', ' happening. The things in', ' a fool. Lucy grabbed at him fro', 'years in Narnia, you would still c', 't, bowed, kissed her hand, straightene', 'iring cry sudde', "o change. If you'll", 'p down inside him he liked bossing', 'ay, Reepicheep, like a good fellow', 'ther look. And then all three chil', 'tupid to make anything up himself, he ', 'ttle surprised. Somethin', ', twirled his whiskers, and said ', 'moment he looked at the waves and saw t', 'a lady," said Reepicheep, "even', 'wice; not in a game or a', 'be got on board the s', 'ened to him, and would onl', 'ose beside her now, treading water,', 'fool. Lucy grabbed at', ' to hear them all', 'ot want to offend.', 'gs," said Caspian. "', 'the picture made hi', 'aken to the galley', 'the Pevensie children had returned to ', ' dark, almost black, the effect was', 'if she had used a slower s', 'ubbles on it. S', 'stace. Then someone el', 'cture?" he asked.\n', 'f the cabin in the', 'her two who had jumped ', 'e ship into the wave and up wen', 'easts of Narnia an', 'when the Pevensie children had ', ' a Mouse on its hind legs and stood abou', 'nced people. The', 'e was not dreaming.\n\n"Stop ', 'e at the next station.', 'again.\n\n"Do you lik', 'stace; and then several things h', 'd deal of voyaging. The cabin was very t', "u two are playing. Stop it. I'l", 'elf," said Caspia', ' and then several things happened at the', 'o be dried."\n\nLucy', 'f he expected to see t', 'things worse, looking at a ', 'ay was not very long; they were ', 'e Chief Mouse. I', " but she couldn't get rid of it beca", 'ward. And by th', 'd used a slower stroke, and also', 'her head and kicked her shoes off, as', 'Harold and Alberta. They ', 'that they liked. Aunt Alberta did', ' picture made him feel sick ', 'ouse. It had won undying glory in the ', 'was a puny little person', 'ed out on the blue, swirling water aste', 'h the rotten thing," c', 'he wall behind him, and L', 'hat one wanted, and as Lucy ', 'a small cottage with only one bedroom ', 'that there are d', 'talking of Narnia and he love', 'ng a week here, you might find tha', "'t get rid of it because it ha", ' then disappeared as the next wave came', 't be helped. Father had g', 'lly balmier and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well,', 'ways done, to take Reepich', 'wore a special kind', 'ly a promise, had been made them in ', 'almier and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia an', 'ame the noises-the swishing of waves an', 'vulgar and-and sentimental."\n\n"', 'ove the bulwarks, ropes being thrown. Ed', 'nd then leave you to change. ', '\n"Don\'t ask him', ' Eustace, "that this s', 'nds spoke to him, for he had none. H', 'ont of him was n', ' sailors. "Bring spiced wine fo', '" said Eustace. "Someth', 'lways open.\n\nEust', ' he bowed again.) "Nothing except you', 'm, sitting on the edge of her bed and lo', 'r one ear and over ', 't Eustace made faces and spluttered', 'make things worse, looking ', ' out, "Let me go. Let me go back. I', 'cy) and the flat gold image ', ' said, "This\'ll be your room, L', 'wine steaming in a flagon and fo', 'fellow."\n\n"To the convenie', 'o was very truthful, had ', ' Edmund with a chuckl', 'which was a rich pur', 'gravely along the swaying deck, was pe', ' these four children had had wonderful a', 'he nearer slope', 'did not worry her, for', 'rs.\n\nEdmund and Lucy did not a', 'ly a day, or no time at all. You n', 'ther. He just hung about grinning, ', 'in a panic and down they bot', 'ut magic, sprang after him, warning him', 'at respect. Their secret coun', 'wet things," said Caspian.', ' said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see it ', 'like a cinema either;', 'sprang after him, warning him', 'ame or a dream, b', ' And I never could bear pe', ' back. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let y', ', Narnia and ba', 'do with some of mine. Lead the wa', ' but she could manage', 'tomed to adventures, but, just exactly ', 'ull it off the wal', 'fect was bold and striking.) It', ' that wave came dow', ' with open mouths.\n\nWhat', 'g ago in the war years. If he had still', 'ks of information and ha', 'sank. He was prompt', 'hem. You might cal', 'd down. He had only once been', 'tely opened a door on', " are playing. Stop it. I'll tel", 'ave came to meet ', 'ime either they had grown much smaller ', 's you. Her prow', 'reen side tower', 'nstead, she went down on one k', ' moment Lucy an', 's starboard.) All the su', "sly clean. Caspian's clothes were too ", 'ened a door on the starboard side, and s', 'ppose, have a secret ', 'd bossing and bullying; and, t', ' and Edmund recognised it at once-', '. "He\'s only lon', '. It had won undying glory in ', 'd out-of-door for that. Down went th', 'ey had grown mu', ' with open mouths.\n\nW', 'water looks as if it was really wet. ', 'sh, for Caspian immediately op', '. His parents called him Eustace Claren', 'elight.\n\n"But who is your friend?" sai', 'Susan, Edmund and Lucy. B', ' to go with him because s', 'who had jumped up ', 'ed out or flared ', 'rse that they were making it all up; ', 'ecame visible for the', 'ting going on from the ship, heads ', 'p to the top of one glorious b', 'r-a golden-head', 't it out and was sick again and b', 'mped up beside him. Th', 'feet, and drew them down ', 'had won undying', 'n exercise book which had be', 'ide. Edmund was close beside her ', ' him Eustace Clarence and master', 'he other two were mu', 'and Edmund both sneezed.\n\n"What', 'e opposite wall. I', 'ced wine steaming in a flagon and four', 'n the Lion on the forward w', 'ar more out of a trip to Ameri', 'etter if she had used a s', ' figure diving o', ' and the creaking and ', 'school work (though otherwise ', 's on a windy day', 'd spluttered and', ' long deep breat', ' duty to your Majesty. And to K', 'Lucy and Edmund sipped it they could fe', 't to come and stay with Un', 'ately Edmund recognised him too. A', ' listening outside ', 'up round them, swept them off their fe', 'e stern cabin. She fell in lov', 'ort side. (By t', 'were going up and d', "Ugh! What on earth's that! Take it awa", 'e spoke-"and then leave you to chan', 'tead, she went down on one kne', ' other side. There was a l', 'as perfect, and its ma', ' courtly. Lucy and Edmund reco', 'r own and I shall have to share a b', 'w," they both sai', 'sters called him Scrubb. I', 'familiar, slipped an arm under her f', 'gs for myself"-he was rummaging in on', 'hioned benches round three ', 'n thing," cried Eus', 'h her face got blue and her teeth ', 'very dark, almost black, the', 'ldren had had wonderful adventures', 'ect, and its manners courtly', 'n was that at tha', 'swirling water astern, the l', '\n\nIt was a picture of a ship', 'if they were dead and pinned on a', "f she had been in Caspian'", 'ead it in print, but it was almost', ' that the water felt', ' blowing out of the pictu', 'ing up to the frame as they', ' his heart sank', ' on much better if ', 'e dried."\n\nLucy f', 'pian. "But where?"\n\nEustace rushed to t', 'could manage. His ', 't rid of it because it had been a we', 'ere seeing may be hard to believe when y', 'nic and down they bot', 'ows were always open.\n\nEustace Cla', 'after him, warning him to ', 'above the bulwarks, rop', 't her the pretty', 'as a lot of shouting going o', 'ns of ways to give people a bad time ', 'er a long stare at Eustace, "that this s', 'dragon with wide open mouth. She ha', ' are looking ahead, is port, and th', 'and began to cry again and asked if they', 'uttered and spa', 'cord stinker, Eustace."\n\nThe stor', 'was-a Mouse. But the', ' its green side towering', 'ly as far as the Isl', "heir Majesties. You'll need somethin", 'rnia and he loved teas', 'hat she was not dreaming.\n\n"Sto', 'exquisite delicacy) and th', ' differently from ours. If you spent ', 'ook of the waves in the picture mad', 'ing more Eustace bur', 'y said, "Yes, I do. I like it very mu', 'ame hour of the very same day on whi', 'as far too stupid to ma', "n feather. (As the Mouse's fur ", 'cy after a long stare at Eustace', 'ven with all th', '"Even looking is better than nothing', "erson who couldn't have stood up even", 'ast before a gay wind, li', ' of all came the stranger-a', ' would still come back to o', 'bed at him from the other side and w', 'ime for their second visit, it was (f', 'right out of the frame and they were', 'ich you left. And then, if you went b', 'r port side. (By the way, i', 'rough the door into the ster', ' to the galley to ', "he didn't say anything. The reas", 'guely familiar, slipped', 'ang after him, wa', ' here in your wet thin', 'f they were going up and down. H', 'ouse he would hav', " Eustace's voice, squeaky with f", 'ts green side tow', 'imson dragons and vines) and sp', 'at that very moment he looked a', 'l talking of Narnia ', ' He called Edmund and Lucy their Ma', 'ng much harder than any bo', ' for the first time, a', 'ong delay during which he', 'id she "would get far more ou', 'ery long delay during which her face ', 'k. Then, as one might have expe', ' it be made with distilled water a', 'e square windows that ', ' the other three all to A', 'ucy as soon as she had breath', 'e fastening ropes round her. ', 'URE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy cal', 'from someone she did not want ', 'ust give way-at least for t', 'bout it a good deal, when they got', ' for an exam and he was to spend the hol', 'w it happening. The things in the pict', 'triking.) Its left paw rested on the h', '. She even kept he', 's were too big for he', 'ould feel the warmth going right d', 'as to go with him because sh', "utside the door I'll get ", 'l been in that house he would hav', 'stace Clarence, who had ', 'etotallers and wore', 'bedroom to spare. It woul', 'eruna. Lucy longed, as she had alway', 'll, she kept her head and', ' duty to your Majesty. And to King Edm', 'ould say anything more Eustace burst', 'n the youngsters". Edmund and Lucy ', '"\n\nAt this moment Lucy and Edm', "h! What on earth's ", 'ould have cost too much m', 't tell you how his friends spoke to hi', 'k. Then, as one mi', 'en you read it in print, but it was almo', 'ad worked hard at her ', "your room, Lucy. I'll", 'ause it had been a wedding present fro', 'on the opposite wall. It was the only ', 'nd one large, square ', 'mouth.\n\nLucy thanked her s', ' the arms of the howling Eu', 'thought of course that ', ' in Narnia she had ', 's she well knew, was a ple', '. She felt quit', 'y got the chance.\n\nThey', 'did look very much indeed as if they ', 'owed, kissed her hand,', 'n. "But where?"\n\nEustace rus', 'lours were too real and clean and o', 'e. Lead the way, Reepich', 'e. Grown-ups thought her ', 'which had been lyin', ' their second visit, it was (for the ', "n the picture were moving. It didn'", 'amiliar, slipped an arm unde', 'ent the prow of the', 'stace knew lots o', 'espect. Their secret country w', ' cry when nothing worse than a wettin', 'other and in this was', 'house he would have had th', 'rs and wore a special ki', 'd be got on board the', 'then, if you went back to Narnia af', 'ver know till you get there. Consequen', ' moment Lucy and Edmund both sneezed.\n\n"', 'ing worse than a wetting has ', 'th streaks and bubbles on it', 'arnia and he loved teasing them ab', 'y tiny but bright with', 'Narnia she had done a good deal of voya', ', and Mother was to go with him becau', 'ped to try to pull ', 've came down tow', 'd. Something very curious indeed had co', 'the effect was bold an', 'h a chuckle; but before he could s', ' ship looks as if it was rea', ' listening outside the door and now came', 'done a good deal of voyaging. The cabi', 'ect. Their secret country', 'f us, I suppose, ', 'h at home as if she had been in Cas', 't back to Narnia a', 't the same time. Eustac', 'e him. There wa', ' she had always done, to take Reepic', 'e you to change. If you', 'xercises in mod', 'othing worse than a w', ' Mouse. But then it was a Mouse', 'bed and looking at a pic', ' against its side. Even w', 'y could feel the w', 'd got there of course by M', 'ce. "I hate mice. And I never cou', 't her swimming last summer ', 'a hundred years in Narni', 't," came Eustace\'s voice, squeaky', 'he pretty one of the family and she was', 'ur world at the very same hour of th', 'g voice:\n\n"My humble duty to your M', 'y that she was not ', 'gasped Lucy as soon as s', '\n\nEustace Clarence disliked h', 'usan her luck, but it was dreadful havi', '," cried Eustace; and then sever', 'r friend?" said Caspian almost at on', 'ied."\n\nLucy found herself as much', ', slipped an arm under her from th', 'e for their second visit, it was (f', 'Edmund was close', 'he rotten thing," cried Eustace', 'g at her from th', ' years had passed, or only a day, or', 'he knew at once by its ex', 'ly a picture. Still, she kept he', 'rence said "Ow," they both ', 'tead, she went down on one knee to t', 'asters called him Scru', 'He thought of course that they were mak', 'ch money to tak', 'alled Eustace Clarence S', ' birds and beasts and crimson dragons a', ' to the frame as they might t', 'ore accustomed to adventures', 'ere," said Edmund curt', ' only yell out, "Let me go. ', 'n inside him he liked bossing an', 'gain.) "Nothing ex', 'ustace made faces and splutter', "ly clean. Caspian's ", 'e a great blue roller surged up ro', 'eeling a little surprised. Som', ' and the nearer slope of that wave cam', 'e sky, both spreading without a bre', 'wn on one knee t', " shipmate you've br", "se she hadn't had a real holi", 'd was heaved up, and then th', ' gold image of Aslan the ', ". You'll need somethi", 'believe when you saw it happe', 'en in Narnia she had done a good deal', ' house there wa', 'll been Kings and Queens of Narnia long ', "sties. You'll need somethi", "ard. You'll have to make do with some of", "hey liked. Aunt Alberta didn't lik", 'lapped one another on the back with grea', 'one during thei', 'fternoon when Edmund and Lucy were steal', 'ad that the left of a ship when y', 'back to Britain, as some', ' to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one thing," sai', 'had been lying beside Ed', ' There was a lot o', ' during their last visit. ', 'd here," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'', 'se beside her n', 'Let you go?" said Caspian. "B', ' of a trip to America than the you', ' a picture on the opposite wall', 'a pleasure she could never have: it wo', ' painted panels (', '. Father had got a job lectu', "aspian's cabin for weeks, and", 'ed water and anyway', 'sent from someone she d', 'was really moving. And the water looks', ' years. Peter was working very hard fo', 'breathless from the smack', 'n which you left. And then, if you w', " any Plumptree's", 'll above the door. All th', 'er. Eustace jumped to try to pu', 'y had grown much sm', ' said Edmund hurried', 'ace knew lots o', 'mmy is," said Edmun', 'g to this glorious venture."\n\n"Ugh', ' vaguely famili', 'les, if they were dead and ', ' there."\n\n"Even ', 'alance, as it paced gravely al', 'you. Her prow was g', 'nd stood about two feet high. A thin', 'he picture frame ha', ' and he was to ', 'd games about N', 'hen you can\'t get there."\n\n"Even l', 'ced Lucy that she was not dreaming.\n\n"S', ' Clarence Scrubb, and', 'r, and had caught the arms of the ho', 'erta-ow!"\n\nThe other two were much', 'g without a break to the horiz', 'ouths.\n\nWhat they were seeing may', 'on a card. He lik', 'ke that picture?" he ask', ' boy some years older than herself.\n\n"C', 'a rock. He lost his ', 'ell out, "Let me go. Let me go back. I d', 's on a windy day. And th', 'reen. She had just run up to th', 'wn went the prow of the ship into th', ' get there. Con', 'ng before his time. Narnian ti', 'd clutched at the ot', 'nd vulgar and-and sentimental."', 'nd then several things happened a', 'the wall behind him, and Lucy fel', 'sixteen weeks that summer, and M', 'd Lucy were stealing a fe', ' to set on the th', 'd "Ow," they both said "Ow"', 't towards you. Her prow was gil', 'the wind came the noises-th', ' other people in that respect', '," said Lucy.\n\n"I', 'ure had grown bigger. Eustace j', 'alled Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and', 'y this time either', 'it was darker blue from th', 'a promise, had be', 'is whiskers, and said in h', "side the door I'll get t", '. I\'ll tell Alberta-ow!"\n\nThe other t', ' they were really g', 'ay get back. You may imagine that they t', ' her face as it does on a windy day', "ea. Eustace's despairing cry sudden", 'al of voyaging. Th', 'othes were too big for he', 's and Queens of Narnia long before hi', 'Caspian hustled the', 'ugh otherwise very old for ', 'd wall above the door. All this sh', 'f the wall and fou', 'ad the way, Reepicheep, like a good', 'r mouth shut and her eyes open. T', 'her bows went up again. At the same mo', "oesn't make things worse, l", 'ank. He was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! Ryne', 'who knew something about magic, spran', 'st give way-at least ', 'get far more out of a trip to Ame', 'of course, Lucy, ', 'y running fast before', '.\n\nEustace Clarenc', 'e people say he will. And ', ' who was very truthful, had a', ' moment--" and h', 'er looks as if it was really', 'd thing."\n\nHe really ha', 'eel sick again. He turned rath', 'an nothing," said Lucy. "And she', 'old and Aunt Alberta. But it really', 'ther they had grown much smaller o', ' fool. Lucy grabbed ', ' dead and pinned on a ca', ' did not want to offen', 'h money to take the other', 'nd now came grinning ', 'ready, you had bette', ' kissed her hand, straightened h', 'Beruna. Lucy longed, as she had al', 's perfect, and its manners courtly', 's, if they were dead and pinned on a car', 'old Professor Kirk', ' a great shock of spray', "were in Lucy's room, sitting on", 'stace. "I hate mice. And I never co', 'other people in that respect. The', 'd a door on the', ' voice:\n\n"My humble duty to your Ma', ' this singularly dis', 'Eustace. Then someon', 'picheep to Lucy after a long stare ', 'wn."\n\nOf course Eustace knew lots of a', 'y. They had got there of course by Mag', 'f underclothes. In their house th', ' give way-at least for the moment--" and', 'h above them, and people look', 'with all their bes', 'rold and Aunt Alberta. But it really ', 'g after him, wa', 'nd the water on that side was fu', "th him because she hadn'", 'n other people in', 'allers and wore a spe', "he hadn't had a real holiday f", 'ly with the win', 'd about Art and', ' Eustace. Last of ', 'eep up in her arm', "d balmier don't rhyme, to begi", ' a pleasure she could never', 'ad managed to hear them all talki', 'may be hard to believe when you read it', 'y and vulgar and-', 'r" and "Mother", but Harold and Alber', ' you are in your own home and they are', 'ks, and the motion of the shi', 'aid Eustace.\n\n"You won\'', ' Rynelf," said Caspian t', 'To the convenience', 'a question of honour must give way-', 'had wonderful a', 't and her eyes open. They were stil', 'ing till the moment w', 's rushing up to the frame as they ', ' balance, as it paced gravely along th', 'c and down they both went.\n\nWhen t', ' of a lady," said Reep', 'sing and bullying; and, though he was a', 'oon as she had breath enou', 'r and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia and ba', 'it happening. The things in the pictu', 'would get far mor', 'rence disliked his cousins the four ', 'ie children had returned to Narnia la', 'as darker blue from the', "im, for he had none. He didn't call his ", ' in a ship (and then only as far as', "t on earth's that! Take it ", ' not worry her, for in the old days wh', 'he way, if you are going to read ', ' blue from the shadow of the ship.\n\n', 'e, square sail which was a ric', "'t ask him what an ass", 't deserved it. His parents call', 'rs were too real and clean and out-of-', 'll of greens and purples. On t', ' of her window at the water ', 'They had got there of co', 'swinging silver ', 'ite figure diving off', 'd the flat gold ima', 'ust get some dry t', 'll that," said Edmund hurriedly, but L', "to the ship's side, as if he expect", 'etarians, non-smokers an', 'im, and Lucy felt all her hair whipp', 'al colder than it had looked while ', ' lots of answers to this, b', 'oop and was slowly ap', "'t ask him what an assy-thingummy i", 'im too. All three shook hands and c', 'mental."\n\n"Am I to understand," said R', 'shouting going on from ', 'he things in the picture', 'lady," said Reepicheep, "even a question', 'illy and vulgar and-and se', 'n her luck, but it was dreadful hav', 'stion of honour must give ', 'ng Edmund, too." (Here ', 'lash had broken right ou', "wine for their Majesties. You'll", 'a windy day. And this was a windy day; b', 'for myself"-he was ', 'family and she was no ', 'p went a great shock of spray. And ', ' get there. Consequen', 'ft leg, drew back his right', ' on the hilt of a ', 'poop and was slowly approaching them.', ' had been listening outsi', ' and was living in a small cottage w', ' a flash, for Caspian immediately opene', 'p went a great shock', 'res of grain elevators or of fat fo', 'se it had been a wedding ', 'headed boy some years older than hers', 'd wore a special kind of', 't of all the Talking Beasts ', 'me," said Edmund', 'nning, and presently be', 'for the first time, an', 'ng delay during which her', ' model schools.\n', 'en in Narnia she had done a good deal of', 'than any boy of his age has a', 'truggling and shouting, and', ' Mouse. It had won undying glory ', ' don\'t like it."\n\n"', 'ill the moment wh', "r it doesn't make thing", 'ning. The things in th', 'hem off their feet, and drew them do', "ng spiced wine for their Majesties. You'", 't if you step out', 'ark, almost black, t', ' air and water. But it was the ', '"The question is,', 'own. He had only once been in a ', 'ith him because she ', 't they would some day get back. Yo', ' good fellow."\n\n"To the con', ' if not--"\n\nAt t', 'e most valiant of all the Ta', 'ferently from ours. If you spent a hund', "ly couldn't be helped. Father", ' the other side and was dragged ', 'little furniture and very few clothe', 'if they were dead and', '-what you could se', 'nd shaped like the head of a', ', if they were dead and pinned on a card', 'could never have: it would have offend', 'let alone Edmund, in a fight,', "oesn't make things worse,", '. There was a lot of shouting going on', 'l, when they got the ch', 'ne glorious blue wave, ', ' ashore at the next station.\n\n"Thi', ', and said in his shrill, pipin', 'her face got blue and her teeth began c', "it doesn't make things wo", 'n much better if she h', 'just as they thoug', 'rclothes. In their house ', 'eyes open. They were still quite ne', 'y in a little bac', 'h sneezed.\n\n"What a fool I am to', 'mage of Aslan the L', 'back to our world at the very', 'e looked very hard at Eustace. Bu', 'dragged forward. And by this ', 't was (for the Narnians) as if Ki', 'den-headed boy some ', ' and anyway he insisted on being put', 'e very same day on whic', ' and-and sentimental."\n\n"Am I to unders', ' that she had worked', 'ne might have expe', 't school work (though otherwise', ' the very same hour of the very same d', 'id not mind going barefoot on boar', 's you. Her prow was gilded ', ' picture?" he asked.\n\n"For H', ' him was not glas', ' panic and down they both went.\n\nWhen t', 'may imagine that th', ' pull it off the', 'indows were alw', 'is, would either have cleared out or fl', 'were too real and clean and out-of-door', 'ther green and tried another lo', 'se Eustace knew lots of answers to thi', 'und and Lucy were l', 'he would have got on much better if', 'ars had passed, o', ' to do who falls into dee', 'ally convinced Lucy that she was', 'or of fat foreign childre', 'wore a special kind of underclothes. In ', 'ed towards the picture. Edmund, who', 'is," said Edmund, "whether', 'was not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it," came', 'in his shrill, pi', 'deep down inside him h', 'us venture."\n\n"Ugh, take it away," wail', 'friends spoke to him, for he had', 'ded-were green. She had just run up to ', 'nia long before his tim', 'w at the water rushing past and took i', 'sties because they and Peter an', 'ead the way, Reepic', 'hat looked out on the blue, swirling wa', ' picture," said Eustac', 'nearly straight towards you. Her prow w', '\n\n"What a fool I am to keep y', 'd and striking.) Its left paw ', 'the wave and up went a great s', 'e house that the', "in Lucy's room, s", 'e of her bed and looking at a picture o', 'Eustace jumped to try to ', 'sies, Peter, Susan, Edmund ', 'ok of the waves in', 'lers and wore a ', 'd and could it be made', 'p of one glorious blue wave, and the n', ', and also that the w', 'hat they did look very much in', 'd?" said Caspian almost at once, turnin', 'the windows were always open.\n\nEustace', ' quite sure they were i', 'e, as it paced gravel', 'ck again and began to cry ag', ' than any boy of his age has a right ', 'wly approaching them. You', 'the opposite wall. It was', 'you read it in print, ', ' but for most of us it is only', ' had finished dressing she looked', 'spect. Their secret country was', "y's bedroom. What he saw was blue wav", 'nd the waves look as if they were ', 'epicheep to Luc', 'ion of honour must give way-at ', "ey're silly and", 'und curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to ', "rushed to the ship's side, as i", 'he did not mind going barefoot on ', 'l give you up my cabin of cours', 'ny little person who co', ' Eustace Clarence, who h', 'k to the horizon. Perhaps we can h', "y at all, and if you don't know already,", 's. On the other, it was darker', ' with some of mine. Lead the way, Reepic', ' of your own and I ', ' "because you\'ll at least have a ro', "cy, but I'm afraid we have no wom", ', but Lucy, who was v', 'our head that the', '-"\n\n\n"Well, Narni', 'iture and very few clothes on th', 't time, and then disappeared as th', 'ther; the colours wer', 'e day on which you left. And then, if ', 'Last of all came the stranger-a golden-', ' home and they are only visit', "ce's despairing cr", 'icture had grown bigger. Eustac', '.\n\nWhat they were seeing may b', 'leg, drew back his ', 'him if his heart sank. He was pro', ' sail which was a r', 'And she is such a very Narnian ship."\n', 'said Lucy, "I like it because the ship l', 'she could be got on board t', 'd a real holiday for ten years. ', 'ost as hard to believe ', ' he insisted on being put ashore at t', 'ich you left. And then, if you ', 'ive way-at least for the moment--"', 'st as they thought they', ' you\'ve brought us, Brother," whis', 'utside," said Edmund.\n\n"W', 'tilled water an', 'f it was really moving. And the water l', 'e) and Mother said she "wou', 's in Narnia, you would still come back', ' secret country but for m', 't and bad temper. ', ' its side. Even with all their best e', 'ustace with his chee', 'oller surged up round', 'ep water in their clothes. She ev', "them down into the sea. Eustace'", ' high. A thin ba', ' she saw its green side to', 'was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! Ry', ' BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy c', 'tched at the other two who had jumped', 'eous person is under your', ' beside him. There was a ', ' would have got on m', 'ing voice:\n\n"My humble duty ', 'ch you left. And then, if ', 'dmund, "whether it doesn\'t make ', ' soon as she had bre', 'right down to their toes. But Eustace ma', 'eavours she had a bruised knee ', 'd of underclothes. In their house ther', 'nd wore a special kind of underclothes', '"\n\nAt this moment Lucy and Edmund bo', 'ng and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost ', 'hing like this:\n\n"Some kid', 'ther said she "would ge', 'e when she finally sto', 'offended him deeply. Instead, she ', 'e do with some of mine. Lead the way, ', ' Consequently, when t', "ke don't let him get started abou", 'een. She had just run ', 'but, just exactly as E', 'noon when Edmund and Lu', '"Don\'t ask him what an assy-thingummy i', 'a secret country but', 'ed.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let hi', 'at the very same ', 'vulgar and-and sentimen', "his, but he didn't say anyt", ' face as it does on a windy day. And thi', ' and here he look', 'n-ups thought her the', 'es on it. She wa', ' Narnia after spending a week her', 'alone Edmund, in a ', 'ard to believe when you saw i', ' presence was lacking to this glorious v', ' All this she t', 'e. Then someone else, whose face w', 'he finally stood, dr', 'rom ours. If you spent a hundred', 'she had finished dressing she', ' ear and over the other and in this wa', 'ng she looked out of her wi', "hings outside the door I'll get th", 'm that side, and the water on that s', 'e back to our world at the very sam', "t me go. Let me go back. I don't ", 'said Caspian almost at on', ' far worse for me,', 'd now came grinning into the room. Last ', 'ren had had wonderful adventures lo', 'you up my cabin of course, Lucy, but', '" he asked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake', 'g on the edge of her bed and look', 'ears older than herself.\n\n"Ca-', 'shouting, and just as they thought', 'heard that Edmund and Lucy were comin', "at on earth's that! Take it away, th", ' up again. At the', "or I'll get them taken to th", "hip when you can't", 'clutched at her in a panic and d', 't respect. Their secret country was re', 'to Britain, as ', 'like that picture?" he ', 'Lucy did not at all want to c', 'holidays being coached by old P', 'ight towards you. Her prow was gilded an', 'mped to try to pull it off ', ' made faces and', 's thought her the pretty one of t', 'iliar, slipped an arm under her from t', 'd then disappeared as the ', ' spend the holidays being coac', 'hut and her eyes open. They we', 'ing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost b', 'boys, on meeting a rece', 'hes round three sides of the', 'sea, and wind and waves rus', ' could be got on board the s', 'he family and she was no ', 'em about it. He th', 'd was close beside her now, tread', 'see it if you step outside," ', 'own on one knee to talk to', 'which was a rich purple. The side', 'ld and striking.) Its left paw', 'd been a wedding pres', 'rse for me," said Edmund, "because you\'l', ' in model schools.\n\nEustace', 'd broken right out of th', ' She had just run up to ', ' would have cost t', 'other two who ha', 't some dry things for', 'ot worry her, for in th', 'lready said, "Yes, I do.', 'ty. They had got there of course b', 'hat the water felt a grea', 'Reepicheep up in', 'tood about two feet high. A thin ba', 'ays when she had been a queen in Narni', 'y big but she did not mind going bare', 'ght have expect', 'even kept her mouth shut', 'd her bows went up again. At the sam', ' same moment an exercise book which', '(all birds and b', 'it was (for the Narnians) as if', 'r had got a job lecturing i', 'nd Mother was to g', 'e effect was bold and strikin', 'l just get some dry things for', 'use the ship looks as if it was really', 'ed to him, and would only yell out, "L', 'gon ended-were green. She had just run ', ' the left of a ship wh', ' slope of that ', 'looked out on the blue, swirling water a', 'of getting to Narni', 's and crimson dragons and vines) an', '," said Edmund, "because y', 'o spend the sum', 'uny little person who ', 'ere much more accustomed to', 'im feel sick again. He turned rathe', ' non-smokers and teetotallers and wore a', 'g. The things in', 'eter was working very ', 'ut and was sick ', 'or in the old days when', 'and her bows went up again. At the same ', 'What a fool I am to ke', 'ather green and tried ', 'ep, like a good ', ' Uncle Harold and Aunt Alb', ' together above the bulwar', ' Edmund and Lucy. But ', ' a bruised knee whe', 'pected to see the picture', 't then it was a Mouse on its', 'y that she was not dreaming.\n\n"St', ' the galley to be drie', 'mmediately Edmund recognised ', 'deck. Then, as one mig', 'eaky with fright and bad temper. "', 'e other side. There was ', 'he would have had them all to stay. ', 'enches round three sides of the table', 'd Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see it if ', 'oes, sandals and sea-boots were hopeles', 're was a second of s', 'king it all up; and as', 'r prow was gilded and s', 'ouse there was very little ', 'een side towering hi', ' Chief Mouse. It had won undying glory i', 'towards them. A', 'work, she knew at once by its exquisite', 'ave came to meet her', ' Narnian ship."\n\n"Still playing you', "(Dwarfs' work, she knew", 'ere really going ', 'hile he spoke-"and then leave y', 'd as Lucy and Edmund sipped ', 'rummaging in one of the ', 'ecturing in America for sixteen ', 'he nearer slope of', 'er cups. It was ju', ' Caspian to Edm', 'liked his cousins', 'Father had got a job lecturing in Amer', 'ing Eustace. Then', 'nd came the nois', 'her now, treading water,', 'n it was; Caspian, the boy king of Narni', ' stood up even to Lucy, let alone ', 'ain. At the same moment an exercise', 'ome poor since the old days and ', 'eepicheep put forw', 'y with the wind came the noises-th', 'have offended him d', ' almost as hard to beli', 'balmier and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well,', 'eed as if they were go', 'ntry. Most of us, I', "me Eustace's voice, squeaky wit", ' really convinced Lucy th', 'ame to meet her and her bows went up ', 'silly and vulgar and-and sen', 'aid Caspian to one of the sailo', ' had grown bigger. Eus', ' on her from that side, and', 'rold and Alberta. They ', 'ecious minutes al', 'r" and "Mother", but Harold and A', "Lucy, but I'm afraid we have no women'", '.\n\nRynelf returned with the spic', '\n\n"Well, for one thing," said Lucy, "I', 'big but she did not mind go', 'was perfect, and its manners courtly. L', '. His shoes, sandals', 'panels (all birds', 'ade with distilled water and anyway', 'ay. For deep down insi', ' her eyes open. They wer', 'and vines) and sp', 't the wave behind', ', who knew some', ' the motion of the s', 'kissed her hand, straightened', 'ucy were luckier than other ', 'd anyway he insist', 'hipping round her face as it does o', 'ace was crying much harder than', 'm what an assy-thin', "ather. (As the Mouse's f", 'ts called him Eustace Clarence', ', and paler blue s', 'g going on from the ship, heads cr', 'er people in that respect.', 'And I never could bear perform', 'ade with distilled water', 't a great deal colder than it had lo', "the Mouse's fur was very dark, a", 'cushioned benches roun', 'or no time at all. You never know', 'ng fast before a gay wind, listing over', 'of grain elevators or of fat forei', " don't let him get started about A", "e sea. Eustace's despairing cry sudden", 'eaming.\n\n"Stop it," c', 'ten thing," cried Eustace; ', 'y once been in a ship (and then only a', 'ys at their Aunt\'s. "But it\'s f', ' like it very much."\n\n"It\'s ', 'had been lying beside Edmund on ', 'came the noises-the s', 'e prow of the ship into the wave and up', 'eck became visible for the first time', 'gins on an afternoon when Ed', 'he had still been in that ho', ' wet things outside the door ', ' or very nearly a pro', ' look out and not to ', 'better than nothing', 'always done, to take Reepiche', 'faces and spluttered and spat it ', 'k again. He turned rather', ' it. I\'ll tell Alberta-ow!"\n\nThe other t', '"I\'m trying to think o', ' who is your friend?', ' Consequently, when the Pev', 'HE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy', 'was very truthful, had a', 'could see of them whe', 't to do who falls into deep water in', 'heir best endeavour', 'aspian to Edmund with a ', 'r head and kicked ', 'Susan her luck, but it w', 'of a ship when you ar', 'ly began talking again', 'ck. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" sai', "sked if they hadn't any", ' The look of the waves in ', 'this she took in in a flash,', ' exquisite delic', 'e people say he will. And I say ', ' sky, both spreading without a bre', 't ashore at the next', 'cy. But he was quite glad when he ', 'hore at the next station.\n\n"', 'dmund and Lucy were stealing', 'ly visitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy ', 'only picture in the house tha', 'happened at the same', 'o had been listenin', '"Even looking is better', 'day get back. You', 'the second Battle o', 'water and anyway he insisted on being p', 'rson who couldn', 'thought her the pretty one of the family', 'ut he was quite glad when he heard tha', "person who couldn't have sto", 'e his time. Narnian time flows', ' wedding present fr', ' an afternoon when Ed', "ucy's room, sitt", 'ers courtly. Lucy and ', " Say nothing and perhaps he'll g", 'ound them, swept them off their ', 't her and her bows went up again.', '!" gasped Lucy as soon', 's moment Lucy and Edmund ', 'and vulgar and-and ', 'was-a Mouse. But then ', 'ly wet. And the waves look as if th', 'ght find that a thousand', 'und and Lucy were stealing a fe', 'e this:\n\n"Some kids who ', 'k," said Eustace. "Somethin', 'ally moving. And the water ', 'aves and saw that they ', 'hey and Peter and Sus', 'ily and she was no good at sch', 'most black, the effect was bold ', 'your own home and they are ', 'four silver cups. It was just what', 'ed out or flared up. E', 'eal, when they g', ' besides being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll ', 'ecognised it at once-Reepic', 'n your wet things," said Caspian. "', 'o stay. But he had som', 'ending a week here, you might fi', 'n on one knee to talk to him.\n\nReepi', 'pairing cry suddenly ended as th', 'ians, non-smokers an', 'ving. And the water looks as if it ', ' he loved teasing them about it. ', '. For Caspian it wa', ' are in your own home and they a', 'heir Aunt\'s. "But it\'s far worse for me', 'was a windy day; but the wind was blow', 'like it because the ship looks as if it ', 'ad finished dressing she looked out', 'try was real. They had already visi', 'behind her, and her stern a', 'o hear them all talking of', 'vators or of fat foreign chi', ' perfect, and it', 'ed, and as Lucy and Edmund sippe', 'se, if not--"\n\nAt this', 'elped. Father had got a job lecturing in', 'nto his mouth.\n\nLucy thank', ' there."\n\n"Even looking is better than', 'his singularly discourteous pe', 'nd its head under one', 'wn towards you, with streaks and', ' this moment Lucy and ', " Majesties. You'll need something to", ' were moving. It ', 't of him was not', 'the way, if you are going to re', 'e for me," said Edmund, "because y', "rnia and balmier don't rhyme, to be", 'sed a slower stroke, and', 'and asked if they had', ' better if she had used a sl', '.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on earth\'s that! Take ', 'abin in the poop and wa', "her it doesn't make things", 'ell out, "Let me go. Let me go back. I ', 'id Reepicheep to Lucy after a long star', 'ir Majesties becaus', "e you to change. If you'll fling yo", ' this time for feeling a little surprise', "e's Vitaminised Nerve Food and coul", 'ent he looked at the waves and saw t', 'se they and Peter and Susan had all', ' come and stay with ', 'towering high above them, and people loo', 'e house that they l', 's Father and Mot', 'er blue sky, both spread', "uldn't be helped. Father had got", 'sed round its head under one ear', 'and all that," said', ' of the ship did not worry her, fo', 'n a card. He liked books if the', 'e it."\n\n"Let you go?" said Caspian. "Bu', 'for most of us it is only an imagin', ' kicked her shoes off, as everyone ou', 'sequently, when the Pevensie ch', 'ng glory in the second Battle of Ber', ' if he expected to see the picture fra', 'e. Consequently, when t', ' you like that pi', 'se beside her now, treading water, and ', ' Majesties because ', 'ading without a break ', 'he Narnians) as if King Arthur came bac', 'hioned benches round three side', 'Mouse on its hind', 's full of greens ', 'ould say anything more Eustace burst out', ' was blowing out of the picture towa', 'ed about Art and al', 'ibly seasick. The look of the waves i', 'her. And of course they wer', ' loved teasing them ', ' the lockers while he spoke-"and then le', 'ple in that respect. T', 'er-all high, steady roar ', 'from the ship, heads crowding toget', 'ched by old Profe', 'ht to do who falls into dee', 'ia and he loved teasing them about', 'ended-were green. She had just ', 'ater got into his mouth.\n\nLuc', 'ken right out of the fr', 'ust run up to the top of one ', 'to Britain, as some people say he wil', 'Clarence, who had been listening outsi', 'd was blowing out of ', 'll need something to ', ' frame hanging above the se', 'at foreign children doing exe', 'allers and wore a special kind ', '" said Lucy. "And she is such a v', 'Do you like that picture?', 'door. All this she to', ' one of the lockers while he spoke-"and ', ' on the forward wall abo', 'down. He had only once been', 'ernoon when Edmund and Lucy were st', 'e of course by Magic, which is the only', ' true that she would have g', 'ten thing," cried Eustace; ', ' "Father" and "Mother", but Ha', ' towards you. Her prow was ', 'ost his head and ', 'cy grabbed at him from the other side', 'harder than any boy of his ag', 'hat she would have got on much bette', 'ise, had been made them in Narnia its', 'thes were too big for her, but she ', 'he lockers while he spoke-"and th', 'es-the swishing of waves a', 'as the water got into his mouth.\n\nLucy', ' was quite glad w', ' and out-of-door f', ' finished dressing', ' me go. Let me go back', ' look very much indeed as', 'the same moment an e', 'isit. Immediately Edmund', 'new something about magic, sprang a', ' were breathless from the smack of it,', "animals. They're silly and vulgar a", 'tace. "Something like this:\n\n"S', 'starboard side, ', 'this time either they h', 'ace burst out aga', 'de," said Edmund.\n\n"Why do y', ' turning to Eustace with his cheer', 'od deal, when they got th', '.\n\n"I\'ll smash the ', 'd the right is starboard.) All the s', ' had helped to ', 'to share a bedroo', 'the other three all to America, ', 'n to cry again and asked if ', "cause she hadn't had a r", 'gan talking again.\n\n"Do you lik', ' of the sailors. "Bring spiced wine ', 'ble for the first', 'uld have offended him deeply. Instea', 'sie children had returned to N', 'rised. Something very curious', 'was obviously running', ' her arms and cuddle him. But this, ', 'eality. They had got there of', 'aring with open mouths.\n\nWhat they ', 'new that there are dozens of ', 's to go with him beca', 'ger. Eustace jumped to try to pu', ' Last of all came the stranger-a golde', 'of Beruna. Lucy longed, a', 'w it happening. The things in the pic', 'But he had somehow b', " of course, Lucy, but I'm afraid we ha", 'llow."\n\n"To the convenience of a la', 'asure she could never have: it woul', 'out two feet hig', 're not wanted h', 'was full of greens and purples. On ', ' twice; not in a game or a dream, b', 'eading water, an', "tle person who couldn'", 'up and down. He had only', ' the windows were always', 'very same hour of the very same da', 'ong before his tim', ' went the wave behind her, and her ster', 'to look out and not ', ' he liked bossin', 'e. It would have cost too much money t', 'he had finished dress', 'd up round them, swept them off their f', 'at the other two who', 'ears older than herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Casp', 'eing wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash the rot', 'would have had t', 'ing put ashore at the next st', 'coached by old Professor Kirke in whos', 'aid Edmund, "bec', 'ed an arm under her from th', 'he well knew, wa', 'im. But this, as she well ', 'd Professor Kirke i', 'd and Lucy their', 'y. And this was a windy day; but', "ur Majesty's protection?", 'he noises-the swishing of waves and ', ' it was darker blue from', 'ent he looked at the waves and saw t', 'e had only one mast and on', 'd clapped one anot', 'ly trick you two are playing. Stop ', 'ised knee when ', 'had been made them in N', 'never could bear performing an', ' Lucy felt all her hair whip', 'shadow of the ship.', '\'s a rotten picture," sa', "bin of course, Lucy, but I'm ", 'it-and indeed it was-', ' the waves look as if th', 'try was real. They had already vi', 'nt of him was not glass but rea', 'ere staring with op', 'y balmier and bal', 'ere coming to stay. For deep', 'and, though he was ', ' the picture had', 'ork (though otherwise very old ', ' more accustomed to adventures, but', 'lity. They had got the', 'with," said Lucy.\n\n"It\'s an assonance', 'ut Harold and Alberta. They', ' on the throne dur', 's of information and h', 'tace."\n\nThe story be', 'oth spreading without a break ', 'cinema either; t', 'with a chuckle; b', 'ked bossing and bullying; and, thou', ' might find that a thousand Narnia', 'The reason was that a great cold, salt s', 'ey had got there ', ". (As the Mouse's fur w", 'Grown-ups thought her t', 'a trip to America than the young', 'ed one another o', 've of that.\n\n"You\'re not', 'n one knee to talk t', 'asick. The look of the waves in the p', 'ey and Peter and Susan had all been K', 'Eustace; and the', 'thing more Eustace burst out again.', ' you like it?" said Eustace to L', 'ller or the picture ha', 'mund, in a fight, he', 'him what an assy-thingummy is," ', 'ther" and "Mother", b', 'boy king of Narnia whom they had help', 'k of spray. And the', 'twirled his whiskers, and sai', ' would have got on much ', 'her two who had jumped up beside him. Th', 'g their last visit. Immediately Edmund ', ' at once by its exquisite delicacy', ' going right down to their toes. Bu', 'can hardly blame him if his heart', 'him Eustace Clare', 'esides being wet throug', ' while it was only a', "et things outside the door I'll get the", 'Its left paw rested on the hilt', 'ic and down they both went.\n\nWh', 'hen nothing worse than a we', 'o Britain, as some people say he will', ' had better get it in', 'he look of the waves ', ' square windows that', 'when she could be got on board', '"whether it doesn\'t make things', 'd, who knew something about magic, ', "our room, Lucy. I'll just get", 'her head and kicked', 'own much smaller or the picture had', 'ne of the lockers while he spoke', 'b, and he almost dese', 'look at all like a cinema ', 'ce said "Ow," they both said "Ow" too.', ', and Susan had', 'oking ahead, is', 'of him was not glass', 'ile he spoke-"and then ', ' over-all high, stea', 'e a special kind of under', 'of the howling Eustace', ' a lady," said Re', 'l having to spend the', ' bruised knee whe', ' ship (and then only as far as the Isl', 'uisite delicacy) and th', '" said Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEu', 'id Caspian to one of the sailors. "Br', 'mouth. She had o', 'he would have had them', 'own bigger. Eusta', ' this singularly', '\n"Oh! Ugh! What on earth\'s tha', ' all up; and as he w', 'e, and the water on that side was', 'er port side. (By the way,', 'You might call it-and i', 'e Edmund, in a fight, he kne', 'im to look out and not to be a fool. ', 'rnian ship."\n\n"Still playing your ', ' go?" said Caspian. "Bu', 'ck with great delight.\n\n"B', ' used a slower s', ' look of the waves in the pictur', 'r shoes off, as everyone ought to d', ' on board ship. When she', 'y as far as the Isle of Wight) and ha', 'when he heard th', 'n and had pictures of grain ele', 's alone togethe', 'ng in one of the locke', 'ous venture."\n\n"Ugh, take it away," w', 's rushing up to the frame as they mi', ". They're silly and vul", 'd to Narnia last time for t', 'e forward wall above the door.', ' chance.\n\nThey were in ', 'ing water astern', 'umped up beside him. There was a secon', ' side towering high above t', 'w precious minutes alon', 'ow came grinning in', ' the picture were movin', 'ide towering high above t', 'for her, but she could manag', 'said Reepicheep to Lucy aft', 'had got there of course by Magic, ', 't towards you. Her prow wa', 'is, but he didn', ' And of course they were talki', " in Caspian's cabi", 'ce burst out again', 'd and waves rushing up to the frame as', ' began talking again.\n\n"Do you like that', 'er," whispered C', 'rta-ow!"\n\nThe other two we', '.\n\n"Stop it," came Eustace\'', ' ship; she saw its green side tower', 'nd cuddle him. But this, as she', 'Susan her luck, but it was drea', 'ed. Something very curious indeed ha', 'dmund.\n\n"Why do you like it?" ', 'vines) and spotl', '\n"Still playing', 'e shook hands and clapped one a', ' up round them, swept them', 'the beds and the ', 'to the galley to be dried."\n\nLu', 'E IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy ', "y hadn't any Plu", 'Take it away, the horrid thing."\n\n', 'w something about magic, sprang after', 't it into your ', 'r. (As the Mouse', ' and very few clothes on the be', 'f a dragon with wide ', 'e Clarence and ', 'THE PICTURE IN THE BED', 'ort, and the right is starbo', 'st of all came the stranger-a', "eally couldn't be", 'y visitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy did', 'may be hard to believe when you read i', 'ied another look', 'better if she had used a slower str', 'ma either; the colours we', 'ut and was sick again and bega', 'ence and masters called him Scrubb. I ', 'g and the over-all', 'e the ship looks', 're sail which was a rich purple. The si', 'thing very curious inde', 'an hustled them on and in ', 'de. Edmund was close beside h', 'better if she ha', 'd he almost dese', 'believe when you saw it happening. The', ' which is the only wa', ' story begins o', 'de, and said, "This\'ll be you', ' as one might have expected, E', 'ng without a break ', 'to Narnia. And a ', 'the sooner the better.\n\nR', 'outh shut and her eyes open. Th', 'acking to this glorious venture."\n\n"', 'ternoon when Edmund and Lucy', 'ected to see the', 'than it had looked while it was onl', 'ide," said Edmund.\n\n"Why do you lik', 'in a small cottag', 'g them. You migh', 'an a wetting has happene', '" said Eustace Clarence, who had b', 'the room. Last year, when he had', 'r the picture had grown bigger. Eustace', 'promise, had been made th', 'Majesty. And to King Edmund, too."', " on board. You'll have to make do with", 'll behind him, and Lucy felt all h', 'hings in the picture were moving. It ', ' grown much smaller or ', "outside the door I'll get them ta", 're too real and clean ', ' of all the Talking Beasts of Narnia ', ' flapped, rose an', 'ove them, and people looking ', ' Eustace."\n\nThe story begins on', 'ld and striking.) Its left paw rest', 'or that. Down went the prow of the sh', 'lmier and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narni', 'larence said "Ow," they both said "Ow"', 's sides and the creaking and t', 'loved teasing them about it', 'e had finished dressing s', ' the same moment an exercise book wh', ' bad time if you are in your own home a', 'in. She fell in ', 't blue roller surged up round t', 'g with the Pevensies, he had managed ', 'he had been a queen in Narnia she had do', 'pictures of grain elevators or of f', 'us indeed had come out of the cabi', "didn't say anything. The r", 'back to our world at the very same', 'r hand, straightened him', 'lt quite sure they were in for a l', "in Caspian's cabin for", 'ifferently from ours. If y', "en's clothes on boa", 'balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia and balm', 'it was a Mouse on its hi', "stace's despairing cry", ' the sea, and perhaps a glim', 'o do who falls into deep water in the', 'and had caught the arms of the ho', 'dmund was heaved up, and then the ', 'roke, and also that t', 's head and clutched at the other t', 'red out or flared up. Eustace ', 'they had grown mu', 'It was the only picture in the house tha', 'of Beruna. Lucy lon', 'nd her face as it does on a win', 'flash, for Caspian immed', ' and spat it out and was sick again', 'ves rushing up to th', 'd pinned on a card. He liked books if th', 'ious minutes alone together. And o', 'of the family and she was no ', ' holidays at their Aunt\'s. "B', 'nd then up went the', 'round her face as', 'rica than the youngsters". Edmund and L', 'day get back. You may imagi', 'd not want to o', 'ves and the slap of water again', 'el sick again. He turned', ' with his cheerf', 'cret country was real.', 'y he insisted on being put ashore at t', 'e sides of the ship-what you could ', 'ays at their Aunt\'s. "But it\'s far wor', "he ship's sides and the creaking and t", 'r too stupid to', "ce's voice, squeak", 't Narnia, which was', 'e burst out again', 'spiced wine steaming in a flagon and f', ' Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m t', 'days being coached by old Professor Kirk', 'he expected to see the p', 'ue and her teeth ', ' gone. Grown-ups thought her ', 'id not worry her, for', '. She was obviously running fast before ', 'to warm you after that dip."', ' and the right is st', "But it's far worse", 'ing and shoutin', 'e expected, Eust', '\n\nLucy thanked her stars', 'st and one large, square sail w', "you don't know already, you had better g", 'o his mouth.\n\nLucy thanked ', ' talk to him.\n\nReepicheep ', 'bin for weeks, and the moti', 'hing past and took in lo', 'time for feeling a li', 't was the only picture in the house t', ' vaguely familiar, slipped ', 'o your head that', 'ter her Edmund was heaved up, and ', '"even a question of honour', 'ery hard for an exam and he was to s', 'fling your wet things ou', 'r the picture had grown bigger. Eustace', 'cret country was real. They had alrea', 'ell Alberta-ow!"\n\nThe other', '.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on ', 'ore a special kind of ', 'k. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" said', 'en doing exercis', "to the ship's side, as if he expec", ' Eustace Clarence', "\nThey were in Lucy's r", 'a. Lucy longed, as she had ', ' that house he would h', 'nce, who had been listening outside the', ' sentimental."\n\n"Am ', 'leave you to cha', 'called Edmund and Lucy their Maje', 'still quite near the ship; she saw', 'ed an arm under her from the other si', ' Pevensies, he had ', 'h that record stinker, Eustace.', 'He really had some excuse t', 'liked his cousins the four Pevensie', 'about Art and all that," sai', ' Isle of Wight) and ', 'e wind came the noises-the swishing ', 'e of course by Magic', "ourse, Lucy, but I'm afraid we hav", 'k. After her Edmund was heave', ' to the galley to', ' were always open.\n\nE', 'or and now came grinning into ', ' her shoes off, as everyone ought to do', 'ly balmier and ba', ' nothing," said Lucy. ', 'e right is starboard.) All the sun', 'ause it had been a wedding p', 'ir house there was ', 'outing, and just as they tho', 'd down. He had only o', 'when she could be got on boar', 'crubb, and he almost ', ' with wide open m', 'ast visit. Immediately Edmund r', 'an. "Come on below and get chan', 'What they were seeing may be hard to', "e go back. I don't like it", ' steady roar of air and', 'e of their own p', "gainst the ship's sides and the crea", ' a long stare at Eustace, "that this ', 'were talking about Narnia, which was ', 'reason was that a great cold, salt ', " Let me go back. I don't li", "on below and get changed. I'll", 'his singularly discourteous p', ', and the motio', ' wanted here," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m', "t's some silly trick you two a", 'ing which her face got ', 'a few precious minutes', ' as they thought they had got their b', 'cabin of course, Luc', 'ing about magic', 've came to meet', 'way-at least for ', ' the other side', "your Majesties' pr", 'hat she had worked har', 'rhyme, to begin with," said L', 'y after a long stare at Eustac', 'en you read it in print, but ', ' Reepicheep to Lucy after a l', 'ment Lucy and Edmund both sneezed.\n\n"Wh', ' clothes were too', 't time, and then', 'o America, and Susan had gone. Gro', "anged. I'll give you up my ", ' things," said Ca', 'try to pull it off the wall and found ', ' the sailors. "Bring spiced wi', 'en mouths.\n\nWhat', 'ld, salt splash had broken ri', ' up my cabin of course, Lucy', 'spend the summer h', 'opposite wall. It was t', 'ain she saw a white figure divin', 'as a windy day; but the ', ' her port side. (By the way, if you ar', 'once by its exquis', ' world at the ver', 'alone Edmund, in a fight,', 'been in a ship (and then only as far as ', 'oo real and clean and out-of-door for th', 'knew something about mag', 'eeting a reception like this, would eit', 'e water looks as if it ', 'le a bad time if you are in your ow', 'present from someon', 'ouse. But then it was a Mo', 'thing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n', 'ut it was dreadful having to spend the s', 'ecious minutes alone together.', 'age has a right ', 'tten thing," cried Eustace', 'And by this time either they had gr', 'hur came back to Britain, as some peopl', 'en a queen in Narnia she had done a go', 'y yell out, "Let me go. Let me go bac', 'ship looks as if it was really movin', 'uare windows that loo', ' kissed her hand, str', ' mouth.\n\nLucy thank', 'ast and one large,', 'alled Eustace Clarence Scru', ' tried another look.', 'ain. He turned rather green and', "n earth's that! Take it away, the ", ' is the only way of getting to Narnia. ', 'had looked while it wa', 'ot at all want to come and stay with U', 'ly seasick. The look of the waves in th', ', and wind and w', 'ery nearly as long as it', 'ead and kicked her shoes off, as every', 'and water. But it was the smel', 'clutched at her in a panic and d', ' that they talked about it a g', 'ppose, have a secret country but for mos', ' to offend.\n\nIt was a', 'r could bear pe', 'lmost deserved it. His parents c', 'odel schools.\n\nEust', 'clean and out-of-door for', 'nee when she finally stood, dripping ', ' as the Isle of Wight) and had be', 'n undying glory ', 'rt, and the right is starboard.) Al', 'most of us it i', 'and balmier--"\n', 'ither have cleared out or flared up. E', ' and in a few minutes Lu', ' he did not approve of that.\n\n"Yo', 'nished dressing she looked out of h', ' of greens and purples. On the other, ', 'if you are going to read this story a', 'gh above them, an', 'was not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it," ', 'shadow of the ship.\n\n"The quest', ' behind him, and Lucy f', ' Eustace Clarence, who ha', 'the water got into his mouth.\n\nLuc', 'ck. You may imagine that they ta', 'both went.\n\nWhen they came up again she ', 'f it was really wet. And the waves l', ' be a fool. Lucy g', 'war years. If he had still been in that ', 'at side, and the water on that side', 'ould some day get back. You may imagi', 'ed out or flared up. Eust', 'ck. After her Edmund was heaved up, and ', 'ater rushing past and took', ' and I shall have to share a', 'ir second visit, it was (for the Nar', 'imself standing on the frame; in front o', 'nked her stars that she had worked hard ', 'ence said "Ow," they ', "re were moving. It didn't look at all li", ' time either they had gro', 'e wall. It was the only picture in t', 'ome out of the cabin in', 'recognised it at once-Reepicheep, th', 'en a question of honour must give way', 'ta-ow!"\n\nThe other two wer', 'ce clutched at her in a panic and dow', 'r years. If he had still been', 'r face got blue and her teeth bega', ' tail. Its balance, as it paced gravely', '\n\n"Ugh, take it away," wailed Eustace. "', "y, but I'm afrai", 'a great blue roller surged up round th', 'to take the other three all to America, ', ' hard for an exam and he was to sp', ' Eustace jumped to try to pull it off', 'im deeply. Instead, she wen', 'e, swirling water astern', 'id not at all want to come', ' that the left of a ship when ', ' and-and sentime', 'h.\n\nLucy thanke', 'et some dry things fo', 'm and he was to spend the holiday', 'outside," said Edmund.\n\n', 'nd he loved teasing them abou', 'ing," cried Eustace; and th', ' temper. "It\'s s', 'g cry suddenly ended as the water go', 'd perhaps he\'ll go away."', 'nd.\n\n"Why do you like it?" said Eusta', "against the ship's s", ' came to meet h', 'ou might find that a thousand Narn', "to the ship's side, as if he expecte", 'stranger were fast', 'who had been listening out', 'ove with it at once', 'e called Edmund and Lucy their Majes', 'ater astern, the ', ' saw a white figure div', ' Take it away, the horrid thin', 'ows differently from ours.', "n who couldn't have stood up", 'm to keep you all standing her', 'hung about grinning, an', "shipmate you've brought us, B", 'arents called him Eustac', ' her age) and Moth', 'on a windy day. And this was a windy day', 's venture."\n\n"Ugh, take it ', ', would either have cleared out or ', 'better.\n\nRynelf returned with', 'ate and advanced people. They wer', ' begin with," said Lu', 'have got on much better if', 'id Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t ', 's very tiny but b', 'cry when nothing', 'Her prow was gilded and shaped like t', 'es round three sides of the table, t', '-Reepicheep, the most valiant of ', 'ad come out of the cabin in the poop ', 'another on the back ', ', or only a day, or no time a', 'he water felt a grea', 'y long; they were', 'edroom with that record s', 'avely along the swaying deck,', ' old game?" said Eustace ', ', sprang after him, warning him to l', 'aid Caspian almo', 'ear them all talking o', 's being thrown. Edmund an', 're coming to stay. Fo', 'nd then up went the wave behind her, and', 'st run up to the ', 'nd drew them down into the sea. Eu', 'nly one mast and one lar', " the Mouse's fu", ' a ship when you are looking ahead', 'ened himself, twirled his whiskers, a', 'g up and down. He ha', '\nEustace Clarence disliked h', 'hind him, and Lucy felt all her ', ' and Lucy were luckier than ', 'd him, and Lucy', ' was vaguely familiar, slipped an arm un', 'assing through the door into the stern c', ' breath. She felt quite sure they we', 'hy it was put awa', "'s voice, squeaky with fright and", 'as not glass but real sea, and wind a', 'r secret country was rea', 'ways open.\n\nEustac', 'y were vegetarians, non-smokers and teet', 'and in this was stuck a long ', 'g through the door into', 'out on the blue, swirling water', 't he saw was blue waves flecked wit', 'ether. And of course they ', 'er above the bul', 'sliked his cousins the four Peve', 'ey both went.\n\nWhen they ca', 'urple. The sides of the ship-wha', 'll. You never know till you get t', 'e these four children had had wonde', 'f waves and the slap of water against ', 'ars that she had', 'her Edmund was heaved up, and the', 'll, for one thing," said Lucy', 't a picture on the op', ' wave, and the nearer slope o', 'ad a bruised knee when she', ' head under one ear and over the oth', 'iously running fast b', ' horizon. Perhaps ', 'e could say anything', ' Narnia last time fo', 'er surged up round the', 'heir Majesties because they and ', 'for Caspian immediately opened a d', 'ne. Lead the way, Reepicheep, ', ' and Mother was to go with him becaus', '; not in a game or a dream, but in real', 'th spreading without a', ' thought they had got the', 'oard the ship without being dashed a', ' ended-were green. She ha', 'rse by Magic, which is the only way o', 'lled water and any', 'ine steaming in a fla', 't exactly as Eustace Clarence ', 'lowed what seemed a very long de', 't country but for most of us it', 'tle of Beruna. Lucy l', 's the only picture in the house', 'flash, for Caspian imm', ' a door on the starboard side, and ', 'love with it at once', ' age) and Mother said s', 'ut of her window at ', 'something to warm you afte', 'gravely along the ', ' on board the ship without bei', 't all up; and as he w', 'ed through the air to the wall be', 'rms of the howling Eustace. Then som', 'than nothing," said Luc', 'deavours she had a bruised knee when', 'son is under your Maje', ' just hung about grinni', 'or since the old days and was', 'f one glorious blu', 'after that dip." He', ' the waves and saw that they did loo', 'much indeed as if they were going up ', 'le back room upstairs), but she coul', 'ngs in the picture we', ' they both said "O', 'dmund recognised him to', 'pian almost at once, ', '; she saw its green side toweri', ' left leg, drew back his rig', 'back to our world at ', ' on which you left. And then, ', 'hung about grinning, and ', ' feet high. A thin band of gold pa', 'a either; the colo', 'et country was real. They ', 'ture of a ship-a ship sailing nearly s', 'g dashed against its side. Even with al', 's if they were going up and do', ' And to King Edmund', 'here. Consequently, when the ', "r Heaven's sake don't let h", 'air whipping roun', ' in a panic and down they both went.\n\nW', 'g up and down. He had only o', 'about Narnia\nGot gradually balmie', 'rose and sailed throug', '; and as he was far too stupid to make', 'e; not in a game or a dream, but in rea', "ou won't see it", 'them, and people looking at h', 'ture. Still, she kept her h', 'oo stupid to make anything up himself, h', 'ut then it was a Mouse on its ', 'oth sneezed.\n\n"What', ' just exactly as Eustace Clarence sa', 'said Eustace. "Something li', 'blue, swirling water astern, the lo', 'eeks that summer, and Mothe', "no women's clothes on board. You'll", "ssly clean. Caspian's ", "ll, and if you don't know al", ' children had ha', 'ndeed as if they were going up and ', 'l the warmth going ri', 'ide open mouth. She had only one ', 'up, and then the miser', 'haps we can hardly blame him if his', 'tace Clarence disl', 'ere was very little furniture and ', "gh! What on earth'", 'ing thrown. Edm', 'Eustace, "that this singularly discourt', 'ers courtly. Lucy an', 'ly one bedroom to spare. ', "ing off the ship's side. Edmund was c", 'deck. Then, as one might have expected, ', 'a itself that they would some day get b', 'ing has happened to him, an', 'rse Eustace knew lot', ' with distilled water and anyway he ins', 'kept her mouth shut and her eye', 'at summer, and Mother was to go ', 'course Eustace knew lots of answers ', 'n and had pictu', 'd waves rushing up t', 'of getting to Narnia. And a pr', 'her hair whipping ro', 'y felt all her hair whipping', 'n they came up again she saw', 'hat she would have got on', ' Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay', 'like it very much."\n\n"It\'s a rott', 'a promise, had been m', 'rd. And by this time either they had', 'true that she would have got ', 'r the moment--" and here he loo', 'er above the bulwarks', ' cold, salt splash ', 'd here he looked very hard at Eust', "'s Vitaminised ", 'nd spluttered and spat it out and w', 'ing deck, was perfect, and its manners c', '. He was promptly sick.\n\n', 'eyes open. They we', "ey hadn't any Plumptree's Vitami", 'ere was a boy called', 're diving off the sh', 'to your Majesty. And to King Edmund, too', 'ten thing," cried Eu', 'me back to Britain, as some people ', 'ost his head and clutched at the other', 'rable Eustace. Last of all came the', ' you like that picture?" he asked.\n\n"Fo', 'she had worked hard at h', 'ain and began to cry again and', '. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let', 'purples. On the o', 'Eustace Clarence and masters calle', 'id to make anything up himself, h', 'sed, or only a day, or no time', 'xercise book which had been l', 'almost black, the effect was bold an', 'e flat gold image of Aslan the Lio', 'rimson feather.', 'and Aunt Alberta. But it re', 'quisite delicacy) and the flat gold im', 'horrid thing."\n\nHe reall', 'u how his friends spoke to him, for he h', " You'll have to make do ", 'towards you, with stre', ' she was no good at scho', "g animals. They'r", 'going up and down."\n\nOf', 'wirled his whiskers, and sa', 'abin for weeks, and the', 'why it was put away', 'icheep put forward his left leg, dre', 'ad and clutched at the other tw', "dn't look at all like a cinema", 'at wave came down towards', 'rizon. Perhaps we can hardly blame ', 't of a ship when you are looking ahe', 'sked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let hi', ' reception like this, would either h', 's a picture of a ship-a sh', 'en made them in ', 'us blue wave, and the nea', 't! Take it away, the ho', 'unt Alberta. But it really cou', 'ssed round its head under one ear and ov', 'her two who had jumped up beside him. Th', 'e way, if you are going to read', 'r performing animals. ', "es on board. You'll have to make do ", ' opposite wall. It was the only pictur', ' spend the holidays being coached', 'ly blame him if his hear', 'ring high above them, and', ' to your Majesty. And t', ' sailed through the air to', ' before his time. Narnian ', 'he picture towards them. And sudd', 'ls, especially beetles, if ', 'ok. And then all three children were sta', 'either. He just hung', 'everal things happened a', 'iled Eustace. "I hate mice. And I nev', 'rable Eustace. Last of all came', 'his shrill, piping voic', 'ght find that a thousand Narnian years h', ' lots of answers to this, but', ' would some day ', 'ng may be hard to believe when yo', 'and I shall have to share a bedr', 's if he expected', 'may be hard to believe when you read it', "arth's that! Take it a", 'hildren had had wonderful adventur', 'nside him he liked bossi', ' Last year, when ', 'children were staring', ' overhead (Dwar', 'ht call it-and i', 'ome of mine. Lead the ', 'd it be made with dist', "t on earth's that! Take it away, the hor", 'e it had been a wed', 'he howling Eustace. Then s', 'rowding together above', ', as she had al', ' horizon. Perhaps we can hardly', ' balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, N', 'nd herself as much at home as if she had', ' Caspian. "Come on below and get', 't a good deal, when the', 'imerick," said Eustace. "Someth', "t it's far worse f", ' indeed had come', ' the table, the s', 'out Narnia, which ', 'o look out and not to be a fool. L', 'to deep water in ', 'rple. The sides of the ship-what you ', 'promise, or very nearly a promise, had', 'and beasts and crimson dragons and ', 'd teasing them about it. He thought of', 'k, she knew at once', 'as not very long; they were w', 'waves and the slap of wat', ' were vegetarians, no', "'s only longing to be asked. Sa", ' and was living in a', 'ut forward his left leg,', 'g up and down."\n\nOf cours', "ce.\n\nThey were in Lucy's room, sitting o", 'rmation and had pictures of grain', 'ree children were', 'of Narnia and the Chief Mous', 'in a game or a dream, but in reality.', 'd down."\n\nOf course Eustace knew ', '" said Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEusta', 'a rotten picture," said Eust', 're green. She had just run', 'nd then all three c', 'nd curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to thi', ' was crying much harder than ', ' two were much more accustomed to', 'nd the right is starboar', 'ws that looked out on the blue', 'do with some of mine. Lead the way,', "don't know already, you had better get ", ' a ship (and then ', "stace's voice, squeaky with fright and", 'take Reepicheep u', 'on was that at that very moment he ', ' were seeing may be hard to ', 'thing like this:\n\n"Some k', 'ned a door on the starboard side, and', ' and Mother "Father" and "Mothe', 'clutched at her in a panic and down the', 'about grinning, and present', 'ranger-a golden-headed boy some yea', 'my cabin of cou', 'course Eustace knew lots of answer', ' dashed against its side. Even with al', ' called him Eust', ' was that at that very moment he looked', ' cinema either; the colours were too re', 'ret country but for', 'ts head under on', 't he was quite glad when he he', 'tched at the other two who had ', 'nding on the frame;', 'ucy as soon as she had breat', " ship when you can't get the", 'o back. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let yo', "d. You'll have to make do with", ' "It\'s some silly trick you two ', ' assonance," said Eustace.\n\n"Don\'t ', 'back. You may imagine that they tal', ' soon as she had breath', 'f you went back to Narnia after ', 'iends spoke to him, for he had none. He ', 'an her luck, bu', 'll get them taken to the galley ', 'al. They had already visited it t', 'steaming in a flagon and fou', 'd about it a good deal, when they got t', 'you saw it happening. The', ' and stay with Unc', ' shook hands and clapped one another', 'ern, the low cushioned benches roun', 'ICTURE IN THE BEDRO', 'ing right down to their toes. Bu', ' side towering high above them, an', 'ave offended him de', 'r in the old days when sh', 'ruggling and shouting,', 'to him.\n\nReepicheep put forward his le', ' even kept her mouth s', "ge. If you'll fling your wet things ou", '; but the wind was blowing o', 'd about Art and all that," said', 'away."\n\nMost boys, on ', 'e. Consequently, whe', ' spent a hundred ', 'lly moving. And the wate', 'very hard at Eustace. Bu', 'ime. Narnian time flows different', 'eepicheep up in her arms and cuddle h', 'elieve when you sa', 'iting till the moment when she', 'ugh otherwise very old ', 'they were talking', '. Last year, when he had been stayin', 'h, for Caspian imme', 'l their best endeavours ', ' about Narnia\nGo', ', for Caspian immediately', 'from the other side and', 'son was that at', 'he finally stood, drippin', 'g exercises in model schools.\n\nEustac', 'ate and advanced people. The', 'n you saw it happ', 't blue roller surged up round them, swe', 'into the room. Last year, when h', ' must give way-at least fo', 'd some day get back', 'ren had returned to Narnia last t', 'y long; they were wai', 'ng, and just as the', ' wind, listing ove', "n. Caspian's clothes were too bi", ' did not mind going barefoot on', 'his:\n\n"Some kids', 'nd the windows were always open.\n\nEus', 'o the convenience o', 'ots of answers to this, but h', "ng animals. They're silly and vulgar an", 'in the second Battle of B', ' yell out, "Let me go. Le', '\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" g', 'only picture in the house that th', 'and indeed it was-a Mouse. But then', ' straightened himself, twirl', 'y anything more E', 'd.\n\n"What a foo', 'ter on that side wa', 'bout Narnia, which was the name of thei', 'e sides of the table, the swinging si', 's gilded and shaped like ', "), but she couldn't ", 'he had been a queen in Na', 'ng dashed against its s', ' some people say he wil', ' us it is only an imaginary countr', 'crimson dragons and vines) and spo', ' and then several things happened', 'le. The sides of the ', 'swaying deck, was perfect, and its man', 'uths.\n\nWhat they we', 'cle Harold and Aunt Alberta', 'ushing up to the frame as they might', 'resence was lacking to this glor', 'th went.\n\nWhen they ca', 'ey were talking ', ' long delay during w', 'tairs), but she could', 'ent back to Narnia after spending a', 'led through the air to the wall behind h', 'nly as far as the Isle of W', 'd out or flared up. Eustace ', 'd Edmund recognised it at once-', 'k. He was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! R', 'ountry was real.', 's an assonance," said', "'t like it at all (th", "an. Caspian's clot", ' was a picture of a ship-a shi', 'ut forward his left leg, drew back h', "pian's clothes were too big for her, ", 'unt Alberta. But it', 'e: it would have offended him ', '. A thin band of gold passed rou', ' want to come and stay wit', 'ick.\n\n"Hey! Rynelf," said Caspian to o', 'ce," said Eusta', 'n mouths.\n\nWhat they were ', 'e dead and pinned on a card. He li', 'again.\n\n"Do you like that', "als. They're silly ", "ame Eustace's voice, s", "an't tell you how his friends s", 'ier and balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia ', 'ribly seasick. The loo', 'great delight.\n\n"But who is', 'he swinging silver lamp ', ' off the wall and found himself standin', 'nsies, he had managed to hea', 'ome and stay with U', 'nto the stern cabin. S', 'most at once, turning', 'nd, listing over a lit', 'e ship into the wave and up went a', 'her two who had jum', "s' presence was lacking", 'into his mouth.\n\nLucy thanked her', 'ragon with wide open mouth. ', ' wave and up went a great sh', 'the other side. There was a lot of sho', 't picture?" he asked.\n\n"For Heav', 'ng cry suddenly ended as the water go', ' I\n\nTHE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere w', 'talking about Narnia, ', 'nd curtly.\n\n"I\'m ', 'cy, who was very truthful, h', 'leasure she could never have: it w', 'ip to America than the youngsters". Edm', 'l give you up my c', 'work (though otherwise v', ' colder than it had loo', 'and of gold passed round its head', 'und, in a fight, he k', 'ides of the ship-what you c', 'ing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost', 't was put away in a little b', 'und was close besi', 'ace Clarence dis', 'himself, he did ', 'I suppose, have a secret country but fo', 'is Father and Mother "Father" and "', 'ly began talking again.\n\n"Do', 'ight with painted panels (all birds and', ' darker blue from the shadow o', 'ry much indeed as i', 'what seemed a very long delay during w', 'd her, and her stern', 'who knew something about magic, spran', 'd, salt splash had b', ' summer holidays at their A', "the Mouse's fur was ve", "his'll be your room, Lucy. ", 'ought her the pretty one of th', "f the ship's side. ", 'e the bulwarks, ropes bei', 'r head that the left of a ship when you ', 'e had a bruised knee when', 'd ship. When she had finished dressi', 'sted on the hilt of a sword very', '\n"Stop it," came Eustac', 'lso that the water felt a great dea', "ip's sides and the creak", 'ing your old game?" said E', 'he was a puny little person who coul', 'y as Eustace Clarence said', 'again. He turned rather green and tr', '"would get far more out of a ', 'eve when you saw it happening. The th', ' He liked books if they were books of i', ' going up and down. He had only once bee', 'an nothing," said Lucy. "And she', 'a Mouse. But then it was a Mouse ', 't and took in long deep bre', '-Caspian!" gaspe', 'he would have got on much better if she', 'came back to Britain, as s', 'r feet, and drew them down into t', 'aps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost boys, on mee', ' to talk to him.\n\nReepicheep p', 'ith foam, and paler blue sk', 'ence disliked his cous', 'ide open mouth. She had', 'ed."\n\nLucy found herself as much a', 'levators or of ', 'rnia, which was the name of their ', 'and her bows went up aga', ' to him.\n\nReepicheep put forward his', 'e in whose house the', 'er blue from the shadow of the ', 'g him to look o', 'hipping round her fa', ' deck. After her Edmund was hea', 'ly and vulgar and-and', 'a, you would still come back ', 'e knew that there are dozens of way', 'ame or a dream, bu', 'nes) and spotlessly clean.', 'ilver cups. It was ju', "it really couldn't be helped", 'esties because they ', 'aid "Ow," they both s', 'agine that they talke', ' fur was very dark, almost black,', 'thing to warm you after ', ' Britain, as some peopl', 'ome kids who played games about', 's round her. After that followed', ' to spare. It would have cost to', 'll that," said Edmund hu', 'd.\n\n"Why do you like it?" ', 'to grudge Susan her luck, but i', ' broken right out of the', 's really wet. And the waves lo', 's soon as she had breath enough. Fo', 'd with a chuckle; but b', 'gummy is," said Edmund', "n't make things worse, l", 'The story begins o', 'd her stars that she had w', 'nce been in a ship (an', 'use the ship looks as i', 'he howling Eustac', '\n\n"But who is yo', 'e nearer slope of ', ' a picture on the oppo', 'und, too." (Here he bowed again.) ', 'rhaps we can hardly blame him if his', "rfs' work, she kne", 'r old game?" said Eu', 'a job lecturing in America for ', 's were hopelessly big but she d', 'd for an exam and he was to spend t', 'ually balmier and balmier--"\n\n\n"We', 'orious blue wave, and ', 'hat this singularly discourte', 'o take Reepicheep ', 'rubb, and he almost deserved ', 'ings for myself"-he was rummag', 'e."\n\n"Ugh, take it ', 'crubb, and he almost deserved it. Hi', 'were coming to stay. For deep down ', 'There was a lot of shouting', ' the four Pevensies, Peter, ', 'to grudge Susan h', 'rking very hard for an exam and he was', 'st out again.\n\n"Oh!', ' besides being we', 'early as long as its', 'as really wet. And the waves look as', 'n and had pictures of grain', 'ked books if they were books o', 'll give you up my cabin of ', 'y he insisted on being put ashore at th', ' he could say anything more Eustace burs', 'lt quite sure they were in', 't see it if you step outside," ', 'mier don\'t rhyme, to begin with," s', 'he would have had them all t', 'her have cleared out or flared up. ', '-"and then leave you to c', 'whipping round her face as it do', 'nd, in a fight, he knew that there ', 'w, treading water, and had caught ', "'s bedroom. What", 'us, Brother," whispered Caspian to ', 'ean and out-of-door f', "er it doesn't make things worse, looki", " get changed. I'll give you up ", 'vators or of fat foreign children doing', 't an assy-thingummy is," said E', 'e of the lockers while he spoke-"', 'nce by its exquisite delicacy) a', 'nd balmier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narn', ', and presently beg', ' in that house he ', 'hough he was a puny little', 'rs. "Bring spiced wine for their Majesti', ', for Caspian immediately opened a ', ' delay was not very ', 'his moment Lucy a', 'attering. In reality the delay wa', ' But then it was a Mouse on ', 'wn. Edmund and the strang', 'ard that Edmund and Lucy were coming', 'aying with the Pevensies, he had managed', ' might to a rock. He lost', 'y tiny but bright with', 'wept them off their feet, and ', 'nally stood, dripping and s', 'is Father and Mo', ' I do. I like it very much."\n\n', " if you don't know alr", 'ide," said Edmund.\n\n"Why do you lik', 'lity. They had got there of course by', 'er and her bows went up again. At the sa', 'had done a good deal of voyaging. The ', 'only way of getting', ' answers to this, but he d', 'ly ended as the water got into his mouth', ' horribly seasick. The ', "your Majesty's protecti", 'nt of him was not glass but real s', 's whiskers, and said in his shrill', "f course, Lucy, but I'm afraid", 'a long before his time. Narnia', 'ves and the slap of wa', 'se four children had had wonderful', 's if it was really wet. ', ' tell you how his friends sp', 'ing to spend the summer holidays at the', ' get them taken to the galley to be drie', 'me time. Eustace rushed towards ', ' looked out of her window at the wate', 'that a thousand Narnian years had pas', 'r term. It is true that', 't least have a room of your o', 'ng about magic, sprang after him, w', 'lready visited it twice; not', 'ship when you are looking ah', 'spreading without a brea', "een in Caspian's cabin for weeks, an", 'ght they had got their balance a grea', 'd tried another look. And then ', 'en someone else', 'hen she had been a que', "u don't know already, you ", 'nised Nerve Food and could it be made w', 'ooked out of her window at the water ', 'p to America than the youngsters". Edm', 'nished dressing she looked out of ', ' came down towards you, with ', ' once-Reepicheep, the most valiant of', 'said "Ow" too. The reason was ', 'ould be got on board the ship withou', 'om. What he saw was blue wave', 'seeing may be hard to believe when you r', 'Peter was working ver', "ny Plumptree's Vitaminis", 'America, and Susan had ', ' and the motion ', 'outing going on from t', 'ings and Queens of Narnia long ', 'e might have expecte', 'at dip." He called Edmund and', 'after that dip." He called Edmund a', 'ing water astern, ', 'about Art and all that," said Edmu', 'd to set on the throne during', 'or most of us it is only ', ' of the ship-what', 'ood and could it be made with distille', 'either; the colours were too real an', ' of course that they were maki', 'a great shock of', ' with his cheerful smile. But E', ' wonderful adventure', 'ed, kissed her hand, s', 'sies, he had managed to hear the', ' the most valiant of a', 'd Eustace. "Something', 'luttered and spat it out and w', 't is starboard.) All the sunlight ', 'd the over-all high, steady ', 'ull it off the wall and f', 'y in the second Battle of Beruna. Luc', 'he liked bossin', 'undying glory in the second Battle of B', ' If he had still been i', 'Lucy tried not to grudge', ' turning to Eustace with ', "r against the ship's sides a", 'le. But Eustace was crying much h', 'ntures long ago in the war yea', 'he is such a very Narnian ', 'ushed to the shi', 'room with that record stinker, ', ', as if he expected to see ', 'Reepicheep, like a', 'ed, as she had alway', 's; Caspian, the boy k', 'ater in their cl', 'iring cry suddenly ended as the wa', 'king at a picture on the op', 's real. They had already', 'nd paler blue sky,', ' barefoot on board', 'n to cry again and asked if they hadn', 'ip-what you could see of them w', 'e Chief Mouse. It had won undying glo', 'nema either; the colours were too', ' and crimson dragons and vines) and s', 'er and anyway he insisted ', 'right is starboard.) All the sunlight ', 'o cry when nothing w', 'ff their feet, and drew t', 'through the door into the', "ng. It didn't look at al", 'ur Majesty. And to King Edmund, t', ' and in this was stuck ', 'got on much better if s', 'e breathless from the smack of it', 'ow till you get there. Co', " (As the Mouse's fur was very dark", 's. If you spent a hundred years in Narn', '\n\n"Do you like that picture?" he aske', 'st summer term. It is ', ' door on the starboard side, and said,', 'w rested on the hilt of a s', 'd clean and out', 'ther and Mother "Father" and "', 'eing dashed agai', 'if you are in your own ', 'too real and clean ', 'Eustace clutched at her in a p', 'thousand Narnian years had passed', 's and sea-boots were hopele', 're making it all up;', 'ich you left. And then, if you wen', 'sk him what an ', 'at her swimming last summer', "Lucy's bedroom. What ", 'dip." He called Ed', 'd beasts and cr', 'black, the effect was bold', 'e. Consequently', 't at once-Reepicheep, the most ', ' "Ow" too. The reason was th', 'shed dressing she looked out of h', 'before a gay wind, listi', ' ropes being th', 'ded wings of the dr', 'n you saw it happening.', 'lady," said Reepicheep, "even a', ' few clothes on the beds and', 't very moment he looked at the w', 'e, had been made them in N', "re diving off the ship's side.", 'e boy king of Narnia whom they had help', 'a. But it really c', 'ng cry suddenly ended as the water ', 'ith some of mine. Lead the way, Re', 'very moment he look', "ee's Vitaminised Nerve Food an", ' it out and was sick again and began ', 'd began to cry again and', ' there of course by ', ' was just what one ', '(and then only as far as the Isle', 'door into the ster', 'n the frame; in front o', ' very same day on which you le', ' it."\n\n"Let you go?" said C', 'always done, to take Reep', ' the wind was blowing out of t', ' playing. Stop it. I', 'y visitors.\n\nEdmund and L', 'cond of struggling and sho', 'n it was a Mouse on its hind l', 't she could manage. His sho', 'ng," said Lucy, "', 'e did not mind going barefoot on boa', 'work, she knew at once by its', 'for the first time, and then disappeare', 'r into the stern cabin. She fell in love', ' round her face as', 're fastening ropes round her. After', ' worse than a w', ' with him because ', '.\n\n"Stop it," came Eustace\'s ', 't a thousand Narnian years ha', 'sked. Say nothing an', 'nary country. Edmund and Lucy were lucki', ' which is the only ', 'ed her stars that she had ', ' But it was the', 'n a wedding present from som', 'bed flapped, rose and sailed through the', 'out, "Let me go. Let me go back. ', ' been a wedding present from some', ', but it was dreadful havin', 'dren were staring with open m', ' shouting going on from the', 'ard to believe when yo', 't hung about grinning, and presently beg', "u won't see it if you step", 'ace as it does on a windy day. And ', " room, Lucy. I'll just get so", 'an exam and he was to spend t', 'and purples. On the oth', 'f, as everyone ought to do ', "e moving. It didn't look at all like a ", 'room, sitting on the edge of her bed a', 'the water rushing past and ', 'and Peter and Susan had a', 'led water and anyway he ', '; and then several things happe', 'hools.\n\nEustace Clarence disliked hi', 'er and her bows wen', "didn't call his Father and ", ' years. If he had still be', 'he over-all high, steady roar ', 'cognised it at once-Reepicheep, the mos', '"Ow," they both said "', 'ing and shivering', 'ids who played games', 'oked while it was only a picture. S', 'ustace.\n\n"You won\'t s', 'here."\n\n"Even looking is better than', 'ht towards you.', 'thanked her stars that s', 'blue from the shadow of th', ' and Susan had gone. Gro', 'ce, who had been listening outsi', 'ree children we', 'ng thrown. Edmund and the strang', 'alled Edmund and L', 'er than other people in that res', "idn't look at all like a cinema either", ' done, to take Reepiche', 've brought us, Brother,"', 'tead, she went down on one knee to ', 'k out and not to be a fool. Lucy grabbe', 'she took in in a flash,', 'y tried not to grudge Susan ', 'ible for the first time, and then disapp', 'r, Susan, Edmund', "ut I'm afraid we have no wom", 'and kicked her s', 'and Lucy were luckier than oth', "erforming animals. They're silly ", 't give way-at least for the moment--', ' and Aunt Alberta. But ', 'ery up-to-date and', 'he frame as they might to a rock. He l', 'hese four children had had wo', 'oment--" and here he looked ve', 'es) and spotlessly cle', 's crowding togeth', 't before he could say anything', 'Mother said she "would get far ', ' Lucy. But he was quite glad when h', 'waves flecked with f', "d perhaps a glimpse of Lucy's bedroom", "(Dwarfs' work, she knew a", 'nd was heaved up, and then the miserab', 'ose and sailed thro', ' and one large, square sail which ', 'omeone she did not want to', 'uld never have: it would have offended', ' him deeply. In', 'ere too real and clean and ', 'et back. You may imagine that they talk', " called him Scrubb. I can't tell you how", 'arence liked animals, espe', 'wer stroke, and also that the water f', 'during which her face got blue and he', 'se very old for her age) and Mo', ' to one of the s', ' is only an imaginary country. Edmund an', 'The story begins on an afternoon when E', 'ch a very Narni', ' they had helped to set ', ' he had been stayi', 'as some people say he will. A', 'se that they were making it all up; and', 'Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was q', 'was lacking to this glorious ', 'ed-were green. She had ju', ", but he didn't say ", 'ding water, and had ca', 'om of your own and I shal', ' mouth shut and her e', 'e same time. Eustace', 'down on one knee to talk to him', 'y were seeing may be ha', 'r balance a great b', 'g water, and had caught the arms o', 'ass but real sea, ', 'ght out of the frame and they were bre', 'm to keep you all stan', 'arnia\nGot gradually balmier and balm', 'ustace; and then se', 'two were much more accustomed to adven', 'ry few clothes on the beds and the windo', 'es of the ship-what you co', 'ad been made them in Narnia itself that ', 'look out and not to be ', ' little back room upstairs), but she c', 'Eustace made faces and spluttered an', 't a job lecturing in Ame', 'y grabbed at him from the other side a', 'ed his cousins the four', 'shed towards the picture. Edmund, who kn', 'g on from the ship, heads ', ' mouth.\n\nLucy thank', "don't let him get started ab", 'aid Caspian almost at onc', ' them, swept them off their feet, ', 'lt of a sword very nearly as long as', ' kicked her shoes off', 'ng a little surprised. Somethin', ', as if he expected to see th', 'r were fastening ropes round her. Af', "we have no women's clothes on", 'by Magic, which is the only ', '"It\'s an assonance," said Eustace', ' up to the frame as they m', '"But it\'s far worse ', "cy's room, sitting on the edge", 'nd had caught the arm', 'secret country was real. They had', ' water, and had caught the', 'and "Mother", b', 'hen you saw it happening. The things in ', ' over a little on her port side. (B', 'pecially beetles, if t', 'ry curious indeed had', ' behind her, and her stern and her deck ', 'mund was heaved up, and t', 'air whipping round her face as it does o', ' as far as the Isle of Wight) ', 'rain elevators or of fat foreign childre', 'ok which had been lying ', 'to Narnia. And a promise', 'ng your wet things outside', ' pinned on a card. He liked book', "and get changed. I'll give you", 'in in a flash, for Caspian immediately', ' foreign children doing exer', "side the door I'll get them taken to the", 'p, "even a question of hono', 'stace jumped to try to pull it off ', 'then it was a Mouse o', 'u saw it happening. The things in t', 'e ship-what you could see of them ', 't grinning, and pre', 'orizon. Perhaps we c', ' believe when you read it ', 'books if they were books of', '.\n\n"This is a merry shipmat', 'ustace jumped to try to pull it off', 'l of voyaging. The cabin wa', 'our silver cups. It was just', '\n\n"To the convenience of a lady," said', 'ail which was a rich purple. The si', 'e had grown bigger. Eustace jumped ', ' to be a fool. Luc', 'was a pleasure she could never have: i', 'that," said Edmund hurriedly, b', 'than it had look', 'oyaging. The cabin was very tiny ', 'shaped like the head of', 'anked her stars that she had worke', '\n\n"It\'s a rotten picture," said Eustace.', 'day get back. You may imagine that ', 'ind and waves ru', "ree's Vitaminised Nerve Food and co", 'n doing exercises in mod', 't. He thought of course that they w', "low and get changed. I'll give you up m", 'rom the smack of it, beside', ' or flared up. Eustace did n', 's, on meeting a recep', 'stern cabin. She fel', ' "But where?"\n\nEustace', ' above the bulwarks, ropes being throw', ', you would still come back to our worl', 'hore at the next station.\n\n"T', 'let him get started about Art and all th', "dn't like it at all (that was why it w", ' of a limerick,"', 'ture made him feel sick again. He tu', ', "that this sin', 'delay was not very long', 'rushing past and took in', " is under your Majesty's protection", 'ce. And I never could bear perfo', ' said Eustace to ', 'es, I do. I like it very much', 'as crying much harder than ', "animals. They're silly and vulgar and-", 'son was that at', 't country but for most ', 'nto the wave and up went a gr', 's darker blue from the shad', 'cushioned benches ro', ' course by Magic, which is the only wa', 'rked hard at her swimming last ', ' in the poop and was slowly', " your Majesty's protection? Because, if ", 'rse than a wetting has happened to him, ', ' to make anything up himself, he di', 'ea-boots were hopelessly ', ' game or a dream, but', 'rnia, which was the name of their ow', ', when they got the c', 'ins on an afternoon when Edmu', 'picture made him feel sick again. He tur', 'while he spoke-"and the', 'nce was lacking to this glorious ventu', ' meeting a reception like this, ', ' that," said Edmund hurriedly, b', 'back. I don\'t like it."\n\n"L', 'ause it had been a wed', 're waiting till the moment whe', " overhead (Dwarfs'", "re moving. It didn't look at ", "f Lucy's bedroom. What he saw was b", ' year, when he had been', 'n and asked if th', ' round them, swept them off their feet', 't where?"\n\nEustace rushed', 'secret country. Most of ', 'ut it was dreadful having to spend t', 'vinced Lucy that she was not dreamin', "s a glimpse of Lucy's bedroo", 's just what one wanted, and as Lucy and ', 'e the noises-the swishing of waves', 'n which you left. And th', 'd she was no good at sc', 'rold and Alberta. They were very up-', 's (all birds and beasts and crimson dra', 'ality. They had got th', 'er looks as if it was really wet.', ' kind of undercloth', 'g barefoot on board ship. ', 'shed towards the picture. Edmund, who', ' clothes were too big for her,', 'und with a chuckle; but ', 'stace made faces an', 'ave a room of your own and I shall ', 'e, and the water on that ', '\n"Hey! Rynelf,"', ' little on her port side. (By the', 'romise, had been made them i', 're accustomed to adv', 'g after him, warning him to look out', ' curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to think of a lim', 'ep, "even a question of honour must', 'kers while he spo', 'much indeed as if they were going up an', "berta didn't like it at all (that", ' they had got their balance a great bl', 'low cushioned benches round three sides', 'd at her swimming last summer term', 'poop and was slowly ap', 'rmth going right down to their toes. ', ' really convinced Lucy', "Say nothing and perhaps he'll go a", 're seeing may be ha', 'ght to do who falls into deep wate', 'arly as long as its tail. I', " but she couldn't get rid of it bec", 'ad and pinned on a card. He l', 'r I\n\nTHE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nTher', "ed him Scrubb. I can't tell you how", ' wedding present from someone s', 'not in a game or a dream, but in', 'nformation and had pictures of grai', 'r above the bulwarks, ', 'ing Eustace. Then someone e', 'd Mother was to go', 'd wonderful adventures long ago in', 't on the blue, swirling water aster', 'grown bigger. Eustac', 'ldren doing exercises in model schoo', 'ture had grown bigger. Eu', '\n"Some kids who played games about N', ' was very dark, almost black, the', ' Aunt\'s. "But it\'s far worse fo', 'roller surged up r', ' All the sunlight ', 'mund and Lucy wer', 'Susan had all been Kings and Queens of N', ' going up and dow', 'd began to cry again and asked if ', 'for their second', 'e of mine. Lead', 'down into the sea. ', "be your room, Lucy. I'll just get some d", "e you've brought us, ", 't house he would', 'thing to warm you a', 'nd teetotallers and wore a spe', ' into deep water in ', "she hadn't had a real holid", 'put forward his left leg, ', ' he bowed again.) "Nothing e', 'him was not glass but real sea, and ', 'for their second visit, it wa', "e's fur was very dark, almost ", 'course that they', 'ring in America for sixteen w', 'und and Lucy did not at a', ' than the youngsters". Edmund and Lucy ', 'rt sank. He was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! R', ' had helped to set on the', 'hat record stinker, E', "mp overhead (Dwarfs' work, s", 'hey were dead and pi', 'om the other side. There wa', 'eople. They were', 'being thrown. Edmun', '. It is true that she would h', 'grinning into the r', 'aid Edmund. "He\'s only longing to be', 's clothes were too big ', 'delicacy) and the flat gold image ', 'f Narnia and he loved', ' to hear them all t', '; they were waiting till the moment ', 'country was real. They h', 'aling a few precious minutes alone ', ' King Arthur came back t', 'ames about Narnia\nGot gradua', 'ngsters". Edmund a', ' had done a goo', ' a little surprised', 'd Eustace. "I hate m', 'pprove of that.\n\n"You\'re n', "he sea. Eustace's despairin", 'hey were very up-t', 'm. You might call it-and in', 'on was that a great cold, salt splash', 'went a great shock of spray. An', 'was darker blue from the shadow ', 'nce, who had been list', ' see of them where th', 'he had used a slowe', 'stranger-a golden-headed boy s', 's as if it was re', ' a lady," said Reepicheep, "even a q', 'om that side, and the water on that ', 'f grain elevators or of fat foreign c', "'s despairing cry s", ' tried not to grudge Susa', ' least for the mo', 'manners courtly. Lucy and Edm', ' to this glorious venture."\n\n"', '"Mother", but Harold a', 'ain.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on eart', ' Lucy and Edmund recognise', 'the noises-the swishing of waves and t', '-date and advanced peopl', ' playing your old game?" said Eusta', 're," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see i', 'll. And I say the soone', 'ace. But Caspian ', 'ther was to go with him because sh', 'forward wall above the door. All this sh', 'y some years older t', 'ered and spat it out ', 'd herself as much at home as if ', ' Mouse on its hind legs and stood a', 'of the ship.\n\n"The que', 't deal colder th', 'quite glad when he he', 'ou like that pict', 'ill quite near the ship', 'arnia, which was the nam', 'lowing out of the picture to', 'ides being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash the', 'ol I am to keep you all standi', 'I to understand," said Reepiche', " it's far worse for me,", 't because the ship looks ', 'e looking ahead, is port, and ', 'icture made him feel ', 'd Edmund recogn', 'spairing cry suddenl', 'ow at the water rushing ', 'e miserable Eust', ' heart sank. He', 'd, "This\'ll be your room, ', 'in a little back room upstairs), b', 'when the Pevensie children had returne', ' very hard for an exam ', 'f she had used a ', '"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let him ', 're accustomed to adventures, but,', 'he lockers while he spoke-"and then l', 's the picture. Edmund, who', ' open.\n\nEustace Clarence liked anim', ' took in in a flash, for Caspian imme', 'ad temper. "It\'s some silly trick you t', 'the right is starboard.)', 't seemed a very long', ' smash the rotten thing," cried Eu', 'unt Alberta. But it real', 'e sides of the table, the swinging', 's head and clutched at th', 'out Art and all t', "sters called him Scrubb. I can't tell yo", 'ame moment an exercise book which had b', 'er than herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" ga', "sty's protection", '. And this was a windy day; but', 's friends spoke to him, for ', 'wo were much more accustomed to advent', 'and beasts and cri', ' side. There was a lot of shouting going', 'ng. And the water looks as if it was ', 'own on one knee to', 'long ago in the war years. I', 'all have to share a bedroom with tha', 'bullying; and, though he was a puny l', 'nd by this time either th', 'her. He just hung', 'ks as if it was ', ' nearly as long as its tail. ', 'n thing," cried Eustace; and then seve', 'is heart sank. He was promptly sick.\n\n"', 'ich is the only way of getting to Narni', 'y. But he had somehow become poor sinc', 'ooking at her from the deck. Then, as ', 'ucy. But he was quite glad whe', "e don't let him get s", ' a picture. Still, she', "he ship's sides an", ' side, as if he expected ', 'ip."\n\n"Still pl', 'uddle him. But this, as ', ' children had had wonder', 't side. (By the way, if you ', 'e had managed to hear them', 'e forward wall above the door. All', 'nd-and sentimenta', 'd not at all want to c', 'e he spoke-"and', 'old Professor Kirke', 'e look of the waves in the pic', "ucy. I'll just g", ' had still been in that house he would h', 'o give people a', 'y much."\n\n"It\'s a rot', 'kicked her shoes off, as ', "g. It didn't look at all like a ", 'le for the first time', 'excuse this time for ', ' run up to the t', 'un up to the top of one glorious bl', 'had better get it into your hea', 'and the over-all high, ste', 'o stay. But he had some', 's and sea-boots were hopelessly bi', 'bove the bulwarks, rope', 'm all to stay. Bu', ' Food and could it be made with dis', ' get back. You ma', 'as-a Mouse. But then it', 'ountry was real. They had already ', 'found herself passing through t', ' green side towering high above ', 'r Majesties because they and Peter and ', 'ope of that wave came dow', 'gine that they talked about it a good d', 'the horizon. Perhaps we can h', 'ly stood, dripping and shive', 'l, had already ', 'ying much harder than any boy of his a', 'out a break to the horizon.', ' finally stood, dripping and shivering', "re moving. It didn't look at al", ' to the horizon. Perhaps we can hardly b', 'ing to Narnia. And a promise, or ', 'ahead, is port, and the right is star', 'said Caspian. "Come on bel', 'nst its side. Even ', 'ing right down to th', 'looking is better than', 'Ow" too. The reason was that a ', 'ork (though otherwise ', 'nd presently began', 'in print, but it was ', 's went up again. At ', 'ent down on one knee to talk to hi', 'lue wave, and the nearer ', 'drew back his ri', 'feel sick again', 'airs), but she couldn', 'bows went up again. ', ' of Narnia and the Chief Mouse.', 'honour must give way', ' bulwarks, ropes being thro', '"This is a merry shipmate you\'ve b', "lumptree's Vitaminis", ' knee to talk to h', 'the deck. After her Ed', 'n as she had breath enough. For', ' sunlight fell on her from that', 'and Lucy their Majesties bec', 'ould have had them all to stay. B', ' her Edmund was h', ' they both went.\n\nWhen th', ' The cabin was very', "ies' presence was lacking to", 'HE PICTURE IN THE BEDROO', 'ed to adventures, but, just ex', 'd water. But it was the smell,', 'wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash the rotten ', 'if you are going to read this sto', '-date and advanced people. They were ve', 'ies, he had managed t', 'are sail which was a rich purple. The ', 'ut it. He thought of course that th', 'ad it in print, but it was al', "'s cabin for weeks, and the moti", 'e was crying much harder than any boy', 'e when you read i', 'ys to give people a ', " you up my cabin of course, Lucy, but I'", 'was gilded and shaped li', 'not in a game or a dream', ' the old days when she had be', 'n with all their best endeavour', ' came up again she saw a white fi', 'they were really g', 'he second Battle of B', 'id neither. He ', 'n hardly blame him if hi', "son who couldn't hav", "u'll have to make do with some of m", 'epicheep up in her arms and c', 'ker blue from the sh', ' to a rock. He lost his ', ' darker blue from t', 'It had won undying glory in the', 's she had breath enough. For Caspian i', 'the very same day on w', 'u go?" said Caspian', 'stace Clarence and masters called him ', "e sea. Eustace's despairing cry", 'here in your wet things," said Cas', '. Lucy grabbed at him from the othe', "Dwarfs' work, she knew ", ' panels (all birds and beasts and ', ' tail. Its balanc', 'galley to be dried.', 'tuck a long crimson feathe', 's about Narnia\nGot gradually balmier an', ', had been made them in Narnia', 'you are looking ahead, is port, and the ', "he ship's side. Edmund was close", ' is only an imaginary', ' not to be a fool. Lu', "little person who couldn't have sto", 'e together. And of course they w', 're fastening ropes round ', 'oys, on meeting a reception like this', ' in your own home and they ', 'lt a great deal cold', 'e wild, briny smell, which re', 'falls into deep water in t', 't side, and the water on that', ' three sides of the table, t', 'n that side was', 'astern, the low cushioned', 'ream, but in reality. They had got th', 'nd him, and Lucy f', 'he saw a white figure diving off the s', "nt Alberta didn't li", 'ft. And then, if yo', ' listing over a little on her port side', 'schools.\n\nEusta', 'ame day on which you left.', 'od up even to Lucy, l', 'e she did not want ', 'he Chief Mouse. It had won undying', 'he had a bruise', 'ng a few precious minutes alon', 'is shrill, piping ', 'onging to be asked. Say nothing', 'pending a week here, you ', 'went the wave be', ' way, if you are going ', 'eat shock of spray', ' the miserable Eustace. ', 'o the horizon. Perhaps we can hardly', 'get them taken to the galley to be drie', ' Still, she kept her ', 'tes alone together. And of course th', 'ng thrown. Edmun', 'ynelf," said Caspian to one of', ' secret country was real. They had', ' it was-a Mouse. But then i', 'eply. Instead, she went down on one kn', 'et there. Consequ', 'er mouth shut and her eyes ', 'mund, in a fight, he knew t', 'ong deep breath. She felt quite sure the', ', whose face was vaguely famil', 'as put away in a little bac', 'isliked his cousins the fou', 'g, on the deck.', 'e, swirling water astern, the ', ' of her window at the water ', 'e as if she had been in Caspi', 'od up even to Lucy, let alo', 'Edmund and the stranger were ', ' what seemed a ', "to the ship's side, as if h", 'above the door. All this she took in in', 'arnia long before his time. N', 'ence and masters called him Sc', "ll, and if you don't know already", 'the blue, swirli', "son is under your Majesty's prot", " the Mouse's fur w", ' herself passing through the door in', ' them where the gilded wings of th', 'the first time, and then ', 're Eustace burst out', 'im, and would only yell out, "Let ', 'head under one e', 'ey liked. Aunt Albert', 'imself, twirled his whiskers, and', 'ch her face got blue and', ' him Eustace Clarence ', 'o?" said Caspian. "Bu', "u'll have to make do with so", 'inutes Lucy foun', 'ged forward. And by this time either ', ' most of us it is on', "he didn't say anything", 'Immediately Edmund recognised him too. A', 'hip, heads crowding together above', 'nd now came grinning into the room.', 'll his Father and Mother', " and if you don't know already, ", " (As the Mouse's fur was v", 'll his Father and Mother "Father" and "M', 'as dragged forward. And by', "unt Alberta didn't like it a", 'ade faces and spluttered and s', 'erica for sixteen weeks that ', ' on meeting a recept', 'd for an exam and he was to s', 'r felt a great deal colder than it ha', 'when she could be got on board ', 'he sooner the better.\n\nRynelf returned', 'ed up. Eustace ', 'almier and balmier--"\n\n\n"W', 'lacking to this g', 'd his cousins t', 're in your own home and they are', 'ecome poor since the old days and was l', 'g over a little on her port side. (B', ' on and in a few minutes Lucy fo', 'han other people in that respect. The', 'ings worse, looking at a Narnian ship', 'old for her age) and Mother said she "wo', ' time if you are in your own h', 'ered and spat it ', 'y is," said Edmund. ', 'ut Eustace was crying mu', 'glass but real sea, and wind and', '.\n\nLucy thanked her ', '. All this she took in in a flash, f', 'windows were always open.\n\nEustace Clare', "he was a puny little person who couldn'", 'some of mine. Le', 're?" he asked.\n\n"For Heav', 'ok which had been', 'e, as if he expe', 'r Majesties because they and Peter and', 'he right is starboard.', 'e sea, and perhaps a glimpse of Lu', 'cy found herself as much at home as if s', ' in for a lovely ', 'ey were going up and down. He ', 'll behind him, and Lucy felt al', "ame Eustace's voice, squeaky w", 'non-smokers and teetotallers', 'es, I do. I lik', 'all like a cinema eit', 's outside the door I', ' the table, the swinging s', ' a long stare at Eustace, "that t', 'Mouse on its hind legs and sto', ' of getting to Narnia. An', 'were much more accustomed to adventure', 'r bed and looking at a pic', 'close beside her n', 'ip-what you could', ' a gay wind, listing ove', 'ing in a small cottage ', "otlessly clean. Caspian'", ' and bad temper. "It\'s some silly tric', ' her in a panic and down they', 'd."\n\nLucy found her', 'ou go?" said Caspian. "But whe', 'se and sailed throu', 'usan, Edmund and Lucy. But he was quit', 't, just exactly', 'them, swept the', 'easts of Narnia and the C', 's for myself"-he ', 'ing right down to their toes. ', "ta didn't like it at all", 'emper. "It\'s some silly trick ', 'ked her shoes off, as everyone ought to ', 'y a promise, had', 'ring which her face got blue and he', 'they did look very much indee', 'were very up-to-date and advance', "n Lucy's room, sitting on the edge", 'hare a bedroom with that recor', 'ittle surprised. Somethin', '\n"Let you go?" sai', 'y had got their balance a ', 'ke-"and then leave you to chan', 'ithout being dashed agains', 'han herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" gasp', 'when Edmund and Lucy were steali', ' had only once been in a ship (and ', 'ook of the waves in the picture made him', 'ally beetles, if they were d', 'id Reepicheep, "even a que', ' thought her th', ' seasick. The look of the waves i', 't visit. Immediately Edmund recog', ' on meeting a reception l', 'bin for weeks, and the motion of t', 'a chuckle; but befor', 'such a very Narnian ship."\n\n"Still', 'ys to give people ', 'ht is starboard.) All the su', 'ore Eustace burst out aga', 'did not worry her, for in the old', 'l have to make do with ', 'n nothing worse tha', 'e creaking and the over-', 'sailing nearly straight towards you. ', 'ake the other three all to ', ' and cuddle him', 'w, was a pleasure she could', 'ey were books o', 'd said, "This\'ll be your room, Lucy', 'ng here in your wet things', '," came Eustace\'s voice, squeaky with', "d Aunt Alberta. But it really couldn't ", ' crowding toget', "of course, Lucy, but I'm ", '-Reepicheep, the most valiant of all t', 'cture towards them', 'ship-what you could see of t', 'wave came to meet her and her bows w', 'herself as much at home as i', " came Eustace's voice, squ", 'd paler blue sky, both spreading with', ' was why it was put away in a litt', 'nd had caught the a', 'ew that there are dozens of', 'ace. "Something like this:\n\n"Some ki', 'n the edge of h', "ucy, but I'm af", 'ed here," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"', 'eople looking at her fro', 'which was the name of t', 'ntry was real. They had alrea', "nto the sea. Eustace's despairing cry su", 'ly yell out, "Let me go', 'rks, ropes being thrown. E', 'would either have cleared ou', 're he bowed again.) "Nothin', 'self as much at ', 'lothes were too big for her, but she co', 'side the door and now ca', 'at a picture on the opposite wall. ', 'd and the stranger were fasteni', 's despairing cry suddenly ', ' hind legs and stood about two f', 'nd people looking at her from th', 'ither; the colours were too real an', 'hen she had been a', "cy's bedroom. What he saw was blue", 'd to Narnia last time for their', 'as to spend the holidays being ', 'why it was put away in a li', 'nd tried another lo', 'ite wall. It was the only picture ', ' spoke to him, for he had', 'know already, you had better get it int', 'ry nearly as lo', 'lly stood, dripping', 'gh.\n\n"I\'ll smash the rotten t', "nia and balmier don't rhyme, ", "she couldn't get rid of ", 'minised Nerve Food and could it', ' stranger were fas', 'ate and secret country. Most of us, ', 'Lucy longed, as she had alway', ' the stranger wer', ' waves rushing up to the frame as they ', 'e had been a queen in Na', 'ip without being dashed against its sid', 'his:\n\n"Some kids who played games abo', 'g in a small cottage with', 'eally convinced Lucy that ', 'self.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Ca', 'der one ear and over the other and in th', ' out, "Let me go. Let me go bac', 'veryone ought to do who', 'r, for in the old day', ' and striking.) Its left paw', 'eck became visible for the first time', 'tace; and then several thi', ' Edmund curtly.', 'ummaging in one of the lockers while ', 'Caspian almost at once, t', 'he asked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let ', 'us minutes alone together. And o', 'e door. All this she took in in a flas', 'as perfect, and its mann', ' if not--"\n\nAt this mome', '\n\n"Even looking', 'd.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let him', 'ke a good fellow."\n\n"To the c', '. It had won undying glory in the', 'rtly.\n\n"I\'m tryin', 'warmth going right down to their t', 'w till you get there. Con', 'g your wet things outside the door I', 'ter. But it was the smell, the wild, ', ' her the pretty one of the family a', 'nd and Lucy. But he was quite gla', 'to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one thing,"', " for their Majesties. You'll need someth", 'eg, drew back his right, bowed, ', 'Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost ', 'offended him deeply.', 'getting to Narnia. And a promise, ', "use you'll at least have a room of your", 'us venture."\n\n"Ugh, take', ' knew at once by its exquisi', 'ened a door on the starboa', 'good at school wo', 'mouth shut and her eyes open. They w', 'gling and shouting, and just as t', 'ere always open.\n\nEustace Clarence', 'ishing of waves and ', 'g wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash ', 'l need something to warm you after that', 'rnian ship when you ca', 'rough.\n\n"I\'ll smash the rott', 'r now, treading', ' hard at Eustace. But Caspian', ' asked. Say nothing ', 'Narnian ship."\n\n"Still playing y', 'rough the air to', 'lver lamp overhead (D', 'w precious minutes alone togethe', 'ger. Eustace jumped to t', 'en picture," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'', 'ng in a small cottage wi', 's darker blue from the ', 'nce.\n\nThey were in Lu', ' get some dry things for myself"-he was ', 'y old Professor Kirke in ', 'heir last visit. Immediately Ed', 'Their secret country was real. They', ' and clapped one ano', ' very hard for an exam and he', 'deck. After her Edmun', 'picheep, the most valiant of all th', 'n she had been a', 'one. Grown-ups thought her the pretty o', 'again.\n\n"Do you like that p', 'side him. There was a second of strug', 'a flash, for Caspi', 'falls into deep water in their ', 'bows went up ag', 'the chance.\n\nThey were ', 'n and in a few minutes Lucy found he', 'ting a reception like th', 'ok hands and clapped one another on the ', 'Stop it," came Eustace', " playing. Stop it. I'll tell ", 'arence disliked his cousin', ' hurriedly, but Lucy, who was very t', "Oh! Ugh! What on earth'", 'aling a few precious min', ' not dreaming.\n\n"Stop ', 'tace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one thing," sa', ' they were breathless from', 'y an imaginary country. Edmund and ', 'p, heads crowding together above the b', 'indows were always open.\n\nEustace Clar', 'lorious blue wave, ', ' for ten years. Peter', 'g and shouting, and j', ' was bold and striking.', 'drew them down into the sea', 'ur wet things," said Caspian. "Come on', 'ays to give people a ba', 'l tell Alberta-ow!"\n\nThe other two we', 'me or a dream, b', '\n\n"My humble duty to y', 'y convinced Lucy that she was', 'ks if they were books of informa', 'ed her hand, straightened himself, twirl', ' hardly blame him if his hea', 'ey could feel the w', ' in the poop and was slowl', 'age with only one bedroom ', 'n your own home and the', 'cy as soon as s', ', and people looking at her from the', 'd got their balance a great blue roller ', 'eepicheep up in her arms and cuddle h', 'Because, if not--"\n', 've the sea, and pe', "rhead (Dwarfs' work, she knew ", 'rew back his right, bowed, kissed h', 'She fell in love with it at once-the', 'ad worked hard at her swimming las', 'in Narnia, you woul', 'o do who falls into deep water in t', ', and said in his shrill,', 'y) and the flat gold ', 'ed an arm under her from t', 'e in your wet things," said Casp', 'sed a slower stroke, and ', ' Take it away, the horri', 'r side and was dragg', "read this story at all, and if you don't", ' said Eustace to Lucy.\n\n', 'and water. But it ', 've cost too much money to ta', 'e he bowed again.) "Nothing except your ', 'Professor Kirke in whose house these ', 'her three all to America,', 'nia, which was the name of their own p', "sea, and perhaps a glimpse of Lucy's be", 'espect. Their secret count', 'ifferently from ours. If you spent ', ' see it if you step outside," said Edmun', 'y few clothes on the beds ', 'iving in a small cottage with only o', "uldn't have stood up even to Lu", " moving. It didn't look at all like a", 'ure they were in for a ', 'k with great delight.\n\n"', '," whispered Caspian to ', "ing animals. They're silly and vulga", 's sides and the creak', "f they hadn't any Plumptree", 't and was sick agai', 't splash had broken right out o', 'ng worse than a wetting has happened', 'ks and bubbles on it. She', 'p beside him. There', 'mmer term. It is ', 'ensie children had returned to ', "'s side. Edmund was close", 'd he was to spend the holidays', 's really moving. And the wate', 'ld only yell out, "Let me', 'own. He had only once been in a ship (a', 'or into the stern cabin. She fell in lov', 'ing.\n\n"Stop it," came Eustace\'s voic', ' the war years. If he had still b', ' them all talking of Narnia a', 'east for the moment--', "on't know already, you ha", ' to pull it off the wall a', 'if she had been in Cas', 'er term. It is true that s', '-all high, steady roar of air a', "ack. I don't like ", 'aller or the picture had grown bigger.', " white figure diving off the ship's sid", 'self, he did not approve ', 'back to Narnia after ', 'things worse, looking at a Narnian ship ', 'elf, twirled his w', 'd it was-a Mouse. But t', ' Rynelf," said Caspian to one', ' finally stood, dripping ', ' at Eustace. But ', 'an, the boy king of Narnia whom t', 'es and the creaking and the over-al', 'ar too stupid to make anything up hi', 'hioned benches round', ' to grudge Susan her luck, b', 'oar of air and water. But it was the s', 'dy roar of air and water. But it wa', 'e made with distilled water and anyway h', 'he dragon ended-were green. She had j', 'eone else, whose f', 'han other people in that respect. ', 'ery long delay ', 'n? Because, if not--"\n\n', 'for one thing," said Lucy, "I like it be', ' as if they were', 'rd side, and said, "This\'l', ' were talking about Narnia, which was t', 'ng it all up; and as', ' course that they were making it', 'es in the picture made him fee', 'f the table, the swinging silve', 'of a lady," said Reepicheep', 'uting going on from the ', 'dly, but Lucy, who was very truthf', 'ded and shaped like the head of a ', 'e howling Eustace. Then so', 'spairing cry suddenly ende', 'row of the ship into the wave and up wen', "es on board. You'll have to make", 'mething like this:\n\n"Some kids who play', 't, bowed, kissed her hand,', 'e another on the back ', 'room. What he saw was blue', ' to the frame as they ', 'f information and', 'asing them about it. He thought of cou', 'ory begins on a', 'that! Take it away, the horr', 'o read this story at all,', 'forward. And by this time ei', 'e saw a white figure di', ' but, just exactly a', 'me or a dream, but in ', 'r mouth shut and her eyes', 'n and tried another loo', 's from the smack of it, besides being we', ' felt all her hair whipping round ', 'ly. Instead, she went down on one kn', 'lothes on the be', " clothes on board. You'll h", 'rs and teetotallers and wore a', 'ed it was-a Mouse.', 'it was really we', 'was a Mouse on its hi', " asked if they hadn't any Plu", 'entures, but, just exactly a', 'pian almost at once, turning to Eustac', 'ind was blowing out of the ', 'aped like the head of a dragon with wi', 'ep water in their clothes. She eve', 'darker blue from the shadow of ', 'nd then disappeared as', 'ng ropes round he', 'ica than the youngsters". Edmund and', 'th wide open mouth. She had ', 'them where the ', 'n the back with gr', 'and water. But it was the smell, the ', "ver lamp overhead (Dwarfs' ", 'er hair whipping round her face a', '. Perhaps we ca', 'no time at all. Y', 'up my cabin of course, Lucy, ', 'ou saw it happening. The things in the', ' Eustace jumped to try t', 'ng in one of the lockers whil', 'e did neither. He just hung about', 'ith open mouths.\n\nWhat t', 'y," wailed Eustace. "I hate mic', 't to cry when nothing worse th', 'm, sitting on the', 'gh. A thin band of gold p', 'hat they were seeing may be hard ', "'t see it if you step outside", 'back to our world at the very ', 'wall above the door. All this she took', "lled him Scrubb. I can't tell yo", 's alone together. And of course ', ' (and then only as far as the Isle of ', 'rboard.) All the sunlight', 'gons and vines) and', ' was the only pictu', '"This is a merry ', 'ade with distilled wa', 'fessor Kirke in whose house these four', 'not to be a fool. Lu', 'elt quite sure they were in for', ' you would still come back to our', 'hools.\n\nEustace Clarence dislik', 'ing," cried Eustace; and then', 'o him, and would only yell out, "Le', 'nd, in a fight, he knew that there are d', 'es because they and Peter and S', 'tace Clarence and maste', 'sailing nearly st', ' some people say he will.', '\n\nThere was a b', 'd and Lucy were comi', 'were too real and clean and ', ' his shrill, piping voice:\n\n"My humble', ' seemed a very long delay during whic', 'hoes, sandals and se', 'howling Eustace', 'ed with foam, and paler blue sky', "'t see it if you ", ' to him.\n\nReepicheep p', 't ask him what an assy-thingum', 'gsters". Edmund and Lucy tried not ', 'le for the first time, and the', '. Down went the prow of th', ' the blue, swirling water aster', ' rushed towards the pict', 'from ours. If you s', ' did not at all want ', 'Edmund, "because you\'ll ', 'new something about magic, spran', ' like it very much."\n\n"It\'s a rotten ', 'at they were seeing may be', 'back his right, bowed, kisse', 'd and could it be m', '"Some kids who played ', ', and Mother was to go with hi', 'ian it was; Caspian, th', 'They were still quite near ', 'aps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost boys, on me', ' you, with streaks and bubbl', 'n a wedding present from someo', ' special kind of underclothes. In their', ' only way of ge', 'Ca-Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as ', 'hes round three sides of the table,', 'Uncle Harold and Aunt Albe', 'ng exercises in model schools.\n\nEus', 'ppened at the same time. Eustace rus', 'won undying glory in the sec', ' children had had wonderful adv', ' home as if she had been in Cas', "s outside the door I'll ge", 'duty to your Majesty. And ', ' was the smell, the wild, briny sm', 's starboard.) All the sunlight fell o', 'he took in in a flash, for Casp', 'or for that. Down went the', 'rse that they were making it all up; and', 'dmund, in a fight, he knew that t', 's only longing ', 'ke it very much."', ' said Caspian almost at once, turning', 'found herself as much at h', 'u saw it happeni', 'rhyme, to begin', 's". Edmund and Lucy tried not to grudge', 'rove of that.\n\n"You\'re not wanted ', 'age with only one bedroo', 'They had got there of cou', 'ace Clarence and masters c', 'aspian. "But where?"\n\nEustace rus', 'dmund hurriedly, but Lu', 'r and Susan had all', "rhead (Dwarfs' work, ", 'iking.) Its left pa', 'd here he looked very hard at Eusta', '. Edmund, who k', ' the Chief Mouse. It had', ' IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy c', 'Edmund and Lucy their Majesties bec', 'ose, have a secret country but for mo', 'two were much m', 'moving. And the water looks as if it was', "r lamp overhead (Dwarfs' work, s", 'olden-headed boy some years older th', 'he had somehow becom', 'athless from the smack of it, ', 'said Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"W', '"This\'ll be your room, Lucy. I\'', 'dy roar of air and water. But', 'ell, for one thing," said Lucy, "I li', '--" and here he looked ve', 't look at all lik', 'u read it in print, but it was al', 'o had been listening outside the door ', "'t make things ", 'e making it all up; and as h', 'y and Peter and Susa', "ing. Stop it. I'l", 'rudge Susan her luck, but it', 'ble duty to your Majesty. And to K', '. And this was a windy d', 'outside," said Edmund.\n\n"Why do you lik', 'hildren had retu', 'd at the same time. Eustac', "the chance.\n\nThey were in Lucy's r", 'ice:\n\n"My humble duty to', ' Edmund and Lucy their Ma', 'igh above them, and people ', 's everyone ought to d', ' warm you after th', ' endeavours she had a bruised knee', 'e creaking and the over-all h', 'y. Instead, she went ', 'on\'t rhyme, to begin with," sai', 'h the air to the wall beh', 'very up-to-date an', 'ho is your friend?" said', 'eemed a very long delay during w', ' get some dry things ', 'ting a reception like this, w', 't of him was not glass bu', ' were coming to stay. For ', 'rians, non-smokers an', ' of the very same day on which you', 'tched at the other tw', "don't know alre", 'ce.\n\n"Don\'t ask him what an ass', 're."\n\n"Ugh, take it away," w', 'rue that she would have got o', ' into his mouth.\n\nLucy thank', ' out of the picture towards them.', ' ship. When she had finished dre', 'assing through the door into the ster', 'id Lucy. "And she is such a v', 'ce.\n\n"You won\'t see it ', 'p (and then only as far a', 'ath enough. For Caspian ', ' was bold and striking.) It', ' books of information an', 'dmund hurriedly, but Lucy', 'fight, he knew that there are d', 'oks as if it was rea', "rta didn't like it at all (th", 'have cleared out or flared up. Eust', 'o. The reason was that a great c', 'its exquisite delicacy) and the fl', 'her swimming las', 'mokers and teetotall', ' been Kings and Queens of Narnia l', 'ures long ago in the war ye', ' said, "This\'ll ', '" came Eustace\'s voice, squeaky', 'r shoes off, as everyone ought to do wh', ' her stern and h', 'suddenly ended as the water got ', 'tory begins on an afternoo', 't run up to the top of one glorious bl', 'ome out of the cab', 'Caspian to one of the sailors.', 'o pull it off the wall and', 'Ugh, take it away," wailed Eustace. "', ' it had been a we', ' her eyes open. They were', ', briny smell, which really convinced L', 'ent the prow of the ship i', 'cy grabbed at him from the other', 'ged to hear them all talking of Nar', 'd look very much indeed as if they ', 'g them. You might call it-and i', 'ch is the only way of getting ', 'arder than any boy of his ', 'port side. (By the way, if ', 'ic, sprang after him, warning him', ' at all (that was why it was put a', 'll you how his friends spoke t', ' the spiced wine steaming in a f', 'cy were stealing a few precious', 'ful smile. But Eustace was crying ', "dn't have stood ", '"\n\n"It\'s a rotten picture," said Eus', 'f the picture towards them.', ' the sunlight fell on her ', 'ke-"and then leave you to', 'arnia, you would still come back to our ', 'was really moving. And t', ' time for their second visit', 'eady visited it twice; not in a game o', 'singularly discourteous per', 'y anything. The reason was that a', " clothes on board. You'll have to make", 'ying with the Pevensies, he had managed ', ' look of the waves in the picture made ', 'ood, dripping and shiveri', ' But then it was a M', 'ame or a dream, but in re', 'ide. Even with all their best endeavou', 'ture and very few', 'arm you after tha', 'de with distilled water and anyway he', ' Aunt Alberta. But it really co', ' anything more Eustace burst out ag', 'ugh the door into t', ' love with it at once-th', 'ater. But it was the smel', 'et them taken to the galley to b', 'd, in a fight, he knew that th', 'ue that she would have got on m', 'mething like this:\n', "eir Majesties. You'", 'n the blue, swirling w', 'ts of answers to', "nged. I'll give yo", 'inning, and presently began ', 'ing about magic, sprang ', 'd waves rushing up to the fr', 'wanted here," said Edmund c', 'all standing here in your', 'Ow" too. The reason was th', 'om the other side', 'k to him.\n\nReepicheep put forward his le', 'hundred years in N', 'hat respect. Their secret count', '. She was obvio', 't quite sure they were ', ' flagon and four s', 'th sneezed.\n\n"What a fool ', 'll to stay. But he had somehow be', ' had been lying besid', 'even kept her mo', ' voyaging. The cabin was ', ' You never know ti', 'eaking and the over-all high, stea', 'th said "Ow" too. The reason was tha', 'g, and just as they tho', '\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let ', ' benches round three sides of the tab', 'all three children were', ' far too stupid to make anythin', 'e hour of the very same day on which ', 'en someone else, whose face was vagu', 'th shut and her eyes open. They were s', 'and the nearer slo', 'very few clothes on the b', " You'll have to make do with some of ", 'E IN THE BEDROOM\n\nT', 's person is under your Majesty', '. The look of the waves in the', 'nd to King Edmu', 'u might find that a tho', ' Edmund was heaved up, and', 'Father and Mother "Fat', ' and sea-boots were hopelessly big bu', 'ace knew lots of answers ', 'oy of his age has a right to cry wh', 'not approve of th', 'ountry was real. T', 'y and Edmund sipped it they could fee', 'ment an exercis', 'mell, which really convi', 'm to spare. It would have co', " to this, but he didn'", 'w lots of answers to this, but he didn', 'ast time for th', ' it because it had been a wed', ' he had been staying with th', 'age. His shoes, sandals and sea-', 'if it was really moving. And the wat', ' was really wet. And the waves', ", and if you don't know already, y", "m afraid we have no women's clothes on ", 'tupid to make anything up himself, he di', ' arms of the howling', 'e people say he will. And I say ', 'Eustace Clarenc', 'ere," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m try', 'great shock of spray. And then up wen', 'd, "because you\'ll at l', ' no good at sch', 'saw was blue waves flecked with foam, a', '\n"Oh! Ugh! What on earth\'s that! Take', ' was that a great co', 'ow of the ship.\n', 'f the frame and they', ' their feet, and', 'When she had finished dr', ' be got on board the sh', '. If you spent a hundred years in Nar', ' gasped Lucy as soon as she had brea', '"Still playing your o', "is under your Majesty's protection? Be", 'e not wanted here," said E', 'ed Eustace. "I hate mice. A', 'ed and looking at a picture on ', 'ead and pinned on a card. He ', 'w came grinning into the ', 'had grown bigger. Eustace ', ' and was sick again and', 'almost as hard to beli', 'd managed to hear them all talking', 'delay during which', 'ey thought they h', 'ed Caspian to Ed', 'little furniture ', 'and said in his shrill, piping voice:\n', 'een weeks that summer, and Mother', 'very same hour of the very same day on', 't summer term. It is true that she wo', 'p; she saw its gree', " What on earth's that! Take it away, t", 'et you go?" said Caspia', 'ick you two are p', 'but in reality. The', 't with painted panels', 'ly a promise, had been ', " sea. Eustace's despairing cry s", 'er astern, the low cushioned ben', 'und and Lucy their Majesties becau', 'an to one of the sailo', '"Hey! Rynelf," said ', 'l, and if you do', 'p; she saw its green side towering hi', 'k," said Eustace. "Somethin', 'he bowed again.)', 'owed, kissed her', 'obviously running fast before ', 'convinced Lucy that she was not', ' the edge of her bed and looking at a pi', 'd benches round three sides of the t', 'great cold, salt splash had broken', 'o the room. Last year, when h', '"\n\n"Still playing y', 'ia and he loved teasi', 'had been staying with the Pe', 'nd wind and waves ', '-headed boy some years older than he', 't it a good dea', 'ere," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m ', 'she had been in', 'recognised him too. All three shoo', "u two are playing. Stop it. I'll", 'was that a great cold, salt splash h', 'ustace. But Caspian hustle', 'hem all to stay. But he had somehow beco', 'it a good deal, when they', 'e. But Eustace was crying much', 'g to warm you after ', 'he water on that side ', 'e as if she had been in Cas', 'aky with fright and bad temp', 'ted on the hilt of a sword very ne', "t changed. I'll give you up my ", 'pat it out and was', 'make do with some of mine. Lead', 'stay with Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta.', 'n the second Battle of', ' discourteous person is under your', 'ut ashore at the next stati', 'were fastening ropes round her. Afte', 'k.\n\n"Hey! Rynelf,"', ' out of a trip to Ame', 'h went.\n\nWhen they came up again', " Lucy's bedroom. What ", ' said, "Yes, I do. I like i', 'nd kicked her shoes off,', ' it was only a pictu', 'and clutched at the other two who had j', 'y begins on an af', ' Eustace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him wh', 'r since the old days and was living in a', 'uld only yell out, "', 'rling water aster', 'owering high abo', ' on that side was full of gre', 'forward. And by this time either they ', 'ir secret country wa', 'd down."\n\nOf cour', 'd people looking at her', ") and spotlessly clean. Caspian's c", 'ousand Narnian year', ' again.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on ear', 'aching them. You might call ', 'rry her, for in th', 'ng up and down."\n\nOf course Eustace kne', "Majesties. You'll need ", 'urned to Narnia las', "th's that! Take it away, the horrid t", 'nt from someone she did not want to of', 'pter I\n\nTHE PICTURE IN THE', 'll quite near the ship; she saw its ', ", Lucy, but I'm afr", ' been lying beside', 'as lacking to this glor', 'sped Lucy as soon', 'n up went the wave behind her, and her', ' she kept her hea', ' courtly. Lucy and Edmund recognise', ' and then the miserable Eustace. La', "an's clothes were too big for he", 'agged forward. And by this tim', 'ad had wonderful adventures long ago i', 'reat shock of spray.', 'b, and he almost des', 'is shrill, piping ', ' would only yell out, "Let m', 'm to spare. It would h', 'aid "Ow," they both said "Ow" too. ', "ian's clothes were too big for h", ' try to pull it off', "se you'll at least have a room of your", 'ore his time. Narnian time flows diff', ' balance, as it paced gravely along the ', ' really going up and down."\n\nOf co', 'r had got a job l', 'ir toes. But Eustace mad', 'rummaging in on', 'red as the next wav', "'t let him get started about Art a", 'rom someone she did not wa', 'Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one t', 'hey had grown much smaller or th', ' not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it,"', 'ried."\n\nLucy found herself as much at h', 'h. She had only ', 'layed games about ', 'ave expected, Eustace clutched at her in', 'Eustace Clarence ', 'she had always done, ', 'ing it all up; and as he was far', 'e she did not want to offe', 'nd recognised him too. All three sh', "ipmate you've brought us,", 're," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m tr', 'r a dream, but in reality. They ', 'hed by old Profess', 't all (that was why it was', 'urniture and very few', 'ing very curious indee', ' Lucy and Edmund rec', 'the way, Reepicheep, like a goo', 'ners courtly. Lucy and E', 'windows that looked ou', 'ed him deeply. Instead, she went d', ' door and now came grinning into the roo', 'shed towards the picture. Ed', 'er lamp overhead (Dwarf', 'nd purples. On the other, it was ', 'e when you read it in print, but it', 'eally had some excuse this time f', 'self.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" gasped', 'r Caspian immedi', 'ow and get chan', 'd looking at a picture on the op', 'me visible for the first time, ', 'an afternoon when Edmund and Lucy', ' They were very', 't she would have got on much', 'd up, and then the misera', ' keep you all standing h', 'thing," said Lucy. "And she is such ', ' she saw its green sid', ' humble duty to your Majesty. A', ' weeks, and the motion of the shi', 'ves and saw that they di', 'ion on the forward wall above t', 'd Reepicheep, "even a questi', 'g as its tail. Its balance, ', 'o a rock. He lo', "e diving off the ship's side. Edmund wa", ' luck, but it was dread', 'e. Edmund, who knew something abou', '\'t get there."\n\n"Even looking is bett', ' one thing," sai', 'sword very nearly as l', 'diately Edmund recogn', 'ide and was dragged forward. And', 'faces and spluttered and spat it out an', '. It is true that ', 's and spluttered', 'erhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMos', 'as darker blue from the shadow of the', 'ed, rose and sailed th', 'een lying beside Edmu', 'ng. Stop it. I\'ll tell Alberta-ow!"', 'schools.\n\nEustace Cla', 'uck a long crimson feather.', 'nian ship."\n\n"Still playin', 'ady, you had better get it into you', 'eep up in her a', 'e only picture in the ', 'nised it at once-Reepicheep, the mo', 'towering high above the', 'of Narnia and the ', 'aves rushing up to the frame as they mi', 't was almost as hard to bel', '.\n\n"Stop it," came Eustace', 'one large, square ', ' "But where?"\n\nEustace rushed to the sh', 'respect. Their secret coun', 'out of the picture tow', 'se than a wetting ', 'ything. The reason was that at tha', 'are windows that looked out on the ', 'barefoot on board ship. When sh', ' or very nearly a p', 'e delicacy) and the flat gold image of', 'ced Lucy that sh', ' air to the wall behind him, and L', 'as blowing out of the ', 'ngularly discourteo', 'Immediately Edmund recogn', 'ttle surprised.', ' of greens and purples. On t', 'at her from the deck. Th', 'either have cleared out or flared u', 'm. It is true that she ', 'ave and up went a great ', 'ly longing to be asked. Say n', 'aw was blue waves f', 'house he would have ha', 'l."\n\n"Am I to understand," said Reepiche', ' for an exam and he was to', 'e moment an exercise book which had b', 'ur world at the very same hou', 'take Reepicheep up in ', ' the swinging silver', 'er; the colours we', 'nd bullying; and, though', ' him if his heart sank.', 'bows went up again. At the ', 'eat deal colder than it had looked', 'fore a gay wind', 'gs and Queens of Na', 'ou like it?" said Eustace to', ' the spiced wine ', 'towering high abo', ' when she finally stood, dripping ', 'd by this time either', 'immediately opened a door on the star', ' had still been in t', 'to the frame as they might to a', 'lt of a sword very nearly as long ', 'slan the Lion on th', 'to the galley to be dr', 'te near the ship; she sa', 'tace, "that this singularly discourte', "dn't have stood up even to Lucy, let ", 'n of honour must give way-at', 'bout Narnia, which', 'ur own home and they', ' broken right out of th', ' the warmth going right down to their', ' a promise, had been made them in', 'it-and indeed it was-a Mouse. Bu', 'the nearer slope ', 'or sixteen weeks that', 'as a rich purple. The si', 'd curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to t', '"Stop it," came Eustace\'s', ' and clean and out-of-door for that. D', 'nd its head under one ear and over the ', 'er green and tried another look. And the', 'ity. They had got there of co', ' to the wall behind hi', 'e of that wave came d', 'r said she "would get fa', 'er surged up round', ' purple. The sides of the s', 'e as it does on ', 'nd out-of-door for that. Do', ' was very little furn', ' of honour must give way-at leas', ' foreign children doing ex', '"This is a merry shipmat', 'ental."\n\n"Am I to understand," said Ree', '"would get far more out of', 'vensie children had returned to Narn', 's that at that very moment he loo', ' a Narnian ship when ', 'of Wight) and had been horribly seas', 'ucy, "I like it because t', 'he frame as the', 'iked animals, espec', ' on a card. He ', 'nd bullying; and, though he was a pu', 'ing in one of the lockers while he sp', 'inced Lucy that she was not dreaming.\n', 'd them all to stay. But he ', 'oungsters". Edmund and Lucy tr', 'd ship. When she had finished', ' knee when she finally s', 'ot a job lecturing i', 's," said Edmund, "whether it doesn\'t ', "he ship's side. Edmund was cl", 'had been lying b', ' to believe whe', 'down they both went.\n\nWhen the', 'd him Eustace Clarence and masters call', ' presence was lacking to this glori', 'returned with t', 'rill, piping voi', 'esently began talking again.\n\n"Do you l', ' spending a week here, you might f', ' arms and cuddle him.', 'p to Lucy after a long stare at Eus', 'l which was a r', ' coming to stay. ', 'that looked out on the blue, swi', 'at looked out on the blue,', 'nt to offend.\n\nIt w', 'icheep, "even a question of hono', 'e cabin in the ', ' let him get started about Art and ', 'aspian it was; Ca', "r Majesty's protection? Because, if not", 'hat dip." He called Edmun', 'he youngsters". Edmund', 'ared as the next wav', ' the air to the wall behind ', 'him feel sick again. He turned ra', 'is:\n\n"Some kids who played gam', 'd hurriedly, but Lucy, who was', 'e delay was not very long; they were', ' behind her, and her stern and he', "es' presence was lacking to thi", 'l, she kept her head and kicked ', 'ere going up and down. He ha', 'Pevensies, he had ', 'besides being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash ', 'd sea-boots were hopelessly big but she ', 'asked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake d', 'rimson feather. (As the Mo', 'st summer term. It is true that ', 't at once, turning to Eustace wi', ' "that this singularly discour', " hadn't any Plump", 'upid to make anything', '--"\n\nAt this mom', ' hard to believe w', ' to hear them all talki', 'ern cabin. She fell in love with', 'ing wet through.', '\n"You\'re not wanted here," said Edm', 'g.\n\n"Stop it," came Eustace\'s voi', 'l playing your old game?" sai', 'st valiant of all', 'and all that," s', 'ia and the Chief M', 'at her in a panic and down t', 'Hey! Rynelf," said Caspian to one o', 'it was; Caspian, the boy', 't things," said Caspian. "', 'his cheerful smile.', 'had only one mast and one large, square ', 'I do. I like it v', 'f the ship into the wave and up went a ', '\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t let him get ', 'ck. You may imagine that they t', 'ged to hear them all talking of Narn', 'by this time ei', 'ould bear performin', 'to set on the throne during', 'anging above the sea, and per', ' Take it away, the h', "hat they liked. Aunt Alberta didn't l", ' a rich purple. The sides of', 're sail which was a rich p', ' twirled his whiskers, and said in his', 't was only a picture. Still, she kept h', 'singularly discourteous person is under ', 'iture and very ', '-ow!"\n\nThe other two were', '(Here he bowed again.) "Nothing ex', 'e bed flapped, rose and ', ' or flared up. Eustace did ne', "d asked if they hadn't any Plu", 'elay during which her face got ', 'ting a reception like this, ', ' look very much indeed as if they ', 'ar of air and water. But it was the sm', 'een a queen in Narnia she ', 'roar of air and water. But it', 't Art and all that," said', 'PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was ', 'hey were really going up', 'econd visit, it was (for the Narni', 'went up again. At t', 'ture frame hanging abo', 'ther look. And then all three chi', 'n was very tiny but bri', 'gan chattering. In reality the delay w', "cy. I'll just get some dry thin", ' just hung about grinning, and presen', 'ucy longed, as she had alw', 'had been a wedding ', 'ew minutes Lucy found herse', 'xcept your Majestie', ' air and water. But ', 'r from that side, and the wate', 'weeks that summer, and Mother was to go', 'r" and "Mother", but Harold and A', "stairs), but she couldn't get ri", "Let me go. Let me go back. I don't l", '"It\'s a rotten picture," said Eu', 'through the door into the stern ca', 'prow of the ship in', 'ng about grinning, and present', "mier don't rhyme, to beg", 'ing.) Its left paw rest', ' that.\n\n"You\'re not wanted here," sa', ' arm under her from the other side. ', ' forward his left le', 'y felt all her hair whipping round ', 'try but for most of us it is only', 'pend the summer holidays at t', 's dreadful having to spend the summer', 'ust hung about gri', 'le Eustace. Last of all c', ' they were dead ', 'ose house these four ch', "u'll need something to war", 'living in a smal', 'But then it was a Mouse on', 'epicheep, the most vali', " But it really couldn't be ", 'or and now came grinning into ', ' deserved it. His parents called him ', 'em. And suddenly with the wind ', 'right is starboa', 'ight.\n\n"But who is your friend?" sai', 'out or flared up.', 'r spending a week here, you might f', 'e: it would have ', 'nd its head under one ear and ov', "when you can't get there.", 'y! Rynelf," said Caspian to one of t', 'of Wight) and had be', 'ked while it was ', 'r Kirke in whose house th', 'een weeks that summe', ' manage. His shoes, s', 'de. Even with al', 'll been Kings and Queens of Narnia lo', 's were always open.\n\nEustace C', 'tranger-a golden-headed bo', 'r and Susan had all been Kings and Queen', 'n chattering. In rea', 'he gilded wings of the drag', 'have cleared out or fl', 'l (that was why it was p', 'day; but the wind was blowing out of th', 'to Lucy after a long stare at', 'still quite near the ship; she saw i', ' a lady," said Reepicheep, "even a ques', 'ill. And I say the soone', ' to do who falls into d', 'cret country was real. They had already ', 'el sick again. He turned rather gr', 'd Professor Kirke in whose hous', 'for feeling a litt', 't to offend.\n\nIt was ', 'secret country but for most of us it is ', 'that they liked. Aunt Alberta di', 'm to look out and not to be a fo', 'had wonderful adventures long ago ', 'it very much."\n\n"It\'s a rotten ', 't Lucy and Edmund both sneeze', 'd of underclothes. In their house', 'it off the wall and f', 'e the head of a d', "rs), but she couldn't get rid of it beca", ', as she had always done,', 'wn towards you, ', 'ht) and had been horribly seas', 'n and her deck be', 'ind and waves r', 'e bulwarks, ropes being thr', ' as soon as she had brea', 'dren had returned to Narnia last time', 'ere luckier than oth', 'd been staying ', 'turing in America for ', 'a trip to America than the young', 'orious blue wave, and the nearer slo', "our room, Lucy. I'll just ", 'began to cry again and asked if they had', 'd hard at her swimming l', ' made with distilled wate', 'ew them down into the sea. Eus', ' a promise, or very nearly a promise,', 'the delay was not very long; they', 'make anything up himself, he di', ' children were s', 'ut who is your friend?" said Ca', 'blue, swirling water', 'nd Lucy felt all her hair whipping r', 'went the wave behind her', ' was a Mouse on', 'to your Majesty. An', 'g him to look ou', 'd still come back to our worl', 'hard to believe when you saw it ', 'ica for sixteen weeks that summer, and M', 'k, was perfect, and its manners cour', 't the water rushi', 'Ca-Caspian!" gasp', 'recious minutes al', 'ne another on the bac', ' it," came Eustace\'s voice, ', 'like it."\n\n"Let', ' and, though he', '. They were still quite near', 'r or the picture had grown bigg', 'oment he looked at the waves and saw', 'great blue roller surged', 'going barefoot on board ship. ', 'her mouth shut and her eyes ope', ' people in that respect. Their ', 'me as if she had been in ', 'ouse he would have had them all to', 'ng.) Its left paw rested on the ', ', which is the on', '. They were vegetarians, ', 'ft paw rested on', 'shaped like the head of a dragon with ', 'a rock. He lost his head and clutche', ' very much indeed as if they', 'spend the holidays ', "you'll at least have a room of your o", 'he "would get far ', 'er two who had jumped up be', 'nd they were breathless fr', 'd paler blue sky, both sp', ' the very same ', 'up again she saw a white f', ' slower stroke, and also that the water ', 'sties because they and P', ' enough. For Caspian it was; Caspian, th', ' the air to the wall behind him, and', 'cry suddenly ended as the w', 'or one thing," said Lucy, ', ' private and secret c', 'boy king of Narnia whom the', ' and secret country. Most of us, I ', 'pproaching them. You might c', ' next wave came to meet her', 'n. He had only on', 'ur came back to Britain, as', 'ing in one of the lockers w', 'rnoon when Edmund and Lucy were ', '" said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see it ', 'shing past and took in long dee', ' they were waiting till the moment wh', 'port, and the right is', '\n\n"You\'re not wanted here," said Edmu', 'ed to see the picture frame hangin', 'tace. "Something lik', ' said Caspian. "Come on below and get', 'ame of their own priva', 'id Caspian to one of ', "Lucy, but I'm afraid we h", '\n\nLucy found herse', 'n had gone. Grown-ups thought her th', '-Ca-Caspian!" gasp', ' "Yes, I do. I like it very much."\n\n', 'd of it because it had been a wedding ', "e, Lucy, but I'm", 'wo were much more accustomed to adventu', 'y nearly a promise, had been made', 'en picture," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'', 'ce by its exquisite delicacy) and', ' again. At the ', 'uld feel the wa', 'ct. Their secret country was real.', '. "Come on below ', ', you would still com', 'pped, rose and sailed thr', 'en nothing worse th', 'haps we can hardly blame him if his hea', ' home as if she h', 'y running fast before', "but she couldn't get rid", 'rudge Susan her luck, but i', 'reath enough. For Ca', 'equently, when the Pev', 'ther look. And then all three', 'hem on and in a few minutes', 'w cushioned benches round', 'ked very hard at Eustace. But Caspia', 'top it," came Eustace\'s voice, squea', ' too." (Here he bowed', 'ady roar of air and', 'tting to Narnia. And a promi', 'll birds and beasts and crimson dra', 'ry old for her ', 'had only once been in a ship ', 'she took in in a flash, for Caspian ', 'dmund, "because you\'ll at l', ' feel sick again. He turned rather', 'ars in Narnia, you would still come ba', 'hey and Peter and Susa', '. On the other, it was darker bl', 'tace.\n\n"You won\'t see it if ', 'over a little on her', 'Eustace. "I hate mice. And I never cou', ' and he almost deserved it. His', 'to look out and not to be a fool. Lucy g', 'ves flecked with foam', 'Still playing your ol', 'ttle back room upstairs), but she c', 'ng and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nMost boy', 'e arms of the howling Eustace. Then so', 'oo. The reason was that', 's if they were going up and down. He had', 'er and balmier-', 't down to their toes. But Eustac', 'lf that they would some day get bac', " I'm afraid we have no women's clo", 'time flows differently', 'ller surged up round them, swept th', 'tace Clarence said "Ow," they both sa', 'er eyes open. Th', 'gs worse, looking at a Narnian s', 'King Arthur came back to Br', 'es being wet through.\n\n"I\'', ' Eustace with h', 'aw was blue waves flec', 'waves and the slap of water', 'expected, Eustace cl', 'a. They were very up-to-date', ' promise, or ver', ' And by this time eith', 'on which you left. And th', ' say anything mo', " but I'm afraid we have no women's c", ' his whiskers, and', '. "Something like this:\n\n"Some ki', 'ar as the Isle of Wight) and had been ho', 'ound its head under', 'wling Eustace. Then someone else,', ' Its balance, as it', 'the moment--" and here he ', '. The reason was t', ' same time. Eustace rushed towards the p', ' really had some excuse this time fo', ' way-at least for the moment', 'could it be made with distilled w', 'seasick. The look of the w', 'ook in long deep breath. She fel', 'and Edmund sipped it they coul', ' ear and over the other and in t', 'tood, dripping and shivering, ', 'nd get changed. I', ' could bear performing ', 'Beasts of Narnia and the Chief M', 'd presently began ', 'lver lamp overhead (D', 'ls and sea-boots w', 'p put forward his', 'pen. They were s', ' Lucy were luckier', 'e. And I never coul', 'ed Lucy that she was not dreaming.\n\n', 'ght to cry when nothing ', 'ehow become poor since th', 'e bedroom to spare. It w', '.\n\nLucy thanked ', ' all talking of Narnia and he l', 'e. Edmund, who knew ', 'romise, or very nearly a prom', 'ip when you can\'t get there."', 'vours she had a bruised knee when s', 'ove of that.\n\n"You\'re n', 'use this time for fee', ' again.) "Nothing except your Majestie', 'ent down on one knee to talk to him.\n\n', 'p breath. She felt quite sure', 'r get it into y', 'me for their second visit, it was (for', ' "Ow" too. The reason wa', 'ing on the edge of her b', ' wonderful adventures long a', 'to adventures, but, just ex', 'ked her shoes off, as everyo', 'shoes, sandals and sea-boo', 'he opposite wall. It was the', 'rn and her deck b', 's of ways to give people a ', 'ard. And by this ti', 'was only a picture. Still, ', ', straightened himself, twirled hi', ' in one of the lockers while he s', 'ed-were green. She had jus', "were moving. It didn't look at a", 'thing like this:\n\n"Some kids who pla', 'e story begins on an afternoon when', 'd grown bigger. Eustace jump', 'got there of course by Magic, which is ', 'a after spending a week here, you mi', 'at all (that was why it was put a', 'r that dip." He called Edmund and ', 'und, in a fight, he knew tha', 'her was to go with him because she ', 'ave a secret country but fo', 'ame day on which y', '," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m tryin', ' had got their ba', ' of the very same day on whic', 'either; the colours were too ', 'one, to take Reepicheep up in he', 'nce Scrubb, and he almos', ' on its hind legs an', 't it was almost as hard ', 'd "Mother", but Harold ', ' began talking again.\n\n"Do y', ' Consequently, when the Peve', '"-he was rummaging in one of the lock', ' Kings and Queens of Na', 'ustace knew lots of answers to this, bu', ' called him Eustace ', 'd recognised it at ', "Lucy. I'll just get some d", 'far too stupid to make anything', 'as the water got into his mouth.\n', 'ant to come and stay with Uncle ', 'er than nothing', 'l go away."\n\nMost bo', 'cy longed, as she had always do', 'm. What he saw was blue waves fleck', 'hip (and then only as fa', ' your old game?"', 'stace did neither. He just hu', 'used a slower stroke, an', 'nee when she finally stood, dri', 'e, and said, "This\'ll be your room, Luc', 'r the better.\n\nRynelf ret', ' recognised it at once-Reepicheep, ', 'ian time flows diffe', 'nd her teeth began chattering. I', 'ling and shouti', 'at all (that was why it wa', 'thin band of gold passed round it', 'e and masters called him', 'nd crimson dragons and vines) and s', ' starboard.) All the sunlight fell on he', 'ing cry suddenly ended as the water ', ' of the ship.\n\n"The questi', 'ler blue sky, both ', ' this moment Lucy and Edmund both ', 'tallers and wore a speci', 'ce. And I never cou', 'th going right dow', 'ove the sea, an', 'st have a room of your own an', 'e too real and clean and o', "or I'll get them taken to the gall", ' at Eustace, "that this sing', 's it paced gravely along the swaying dec', 'ustace. "I hate mice. And I', ' in this was stuck ', 'ia. And a promise, or very nearly a p', 'real sea, and wind and waves rushing', 'eathless from the smack o', 'st as they thought they had go', 'ot gradually balmier and balmier--', 'erta. But it really co', 'e with distilled water and anyway he in', 're coming to stay. For deep down insi', ' purple. The sides of the s', "aven's sake don't let him", 'd in this was stuck a long crimso', 'silly and vulgar and-', 'oked while it was only a picture. Still,', 'piced wine steaming in a flagon a', 'ter, and had ca', '-the swishing of waves and t', ' came grinning into', " your wet things outside the door I'll g", 'hat," said Edmund hurriedly, but Lu', 'why it was put away in a littl', ' is the only way of getti', 'etles, if they were dead and pin', 'et started about Art and all ', ' knew that there ar', 'he had always done, to take Reepichee', 'as a rich purple. The si', 's of answers to this,', 'spian to Edmund with a chuckle;', ' let him get started about Art and ', 'rhaps we can hardly blame him if his hea', 'e. Lead the way, Reepi', 't sank. He was prompt', 'ian ship."\n\n"Still playing your ', ' after him, warning him to look out', 'has a right to cry w', 'mer, and Mother ', 'esides being wet throug', 'e liked bossing ', 'nd water. But it was the smell, t', 'y moving. And the water looks as if it ', ' They had already visited it twice; no', ' they would some day get back. ', ' next station.\n\n"', ' upstairs), but she cou', 'ence disliked his cousins the four Pev', ' Majesties because they and ', 'r secret country was real. They had ', 'day get back. You may imagi', ' thousand Narnian years had pas', 'ck room upstairs', 'you. Her prow was', 'ears had passed, o', 'm all talking of', 'Of course Eustace knew lots', 'ooks of information and had pictures of ', 'on the opposite w', ' And by this time either they had gr', 'e. The sides of the ship-what you coul', '. Edmund and the strang', "ed him Scrubb. I can't te", 'ere, you might find that a thousand Na', 'it-and indeed it was-a Mouse. But', ' there. Consequently', 'stern, the low cushioned benc', 'es because they and Pet', ' on a windy day. And this was a windy d', 'ere too real and clean and ', 'clutched at the oth', ', was perfect, ', 'out of a trip to America ', ' her, for in the old ', ' Edmund. "He\'s onl', " couldn't get rid of it b", 'about magic, sprang after hi', 'cle Harold and Aun', 'Consequently, when the Peve', ' bigger. Eustace jumped to try to', '\nRynelf returned with the spiced wine', 'ker, Eustace."\n\nThe story', 'es, I do. I like it very mu', 'ines) and spotlessly clea', 'ul adventures long ago in the war years.', 'uld manage. His shoes, sandals and se', 'ouse these four children had had wonde', 'wild, briny smell, which really', 'd still come back to our wor', ' did not at all want to come and s', "below and get changed. I'l", ' which her face got blue and her', 'nce a great blue r', ' Lucy and Edmund recognis', 'd Eustace Clarence, who h', 'of the sailors. "Bring spiced ', 'legs and stood about two feet high.', '-ow!"\n\nThe other two were much more acc', 'heerful smile. But Eustace was cry', '," said Edmund. "He\'s only longi', "ou've brought us, Broth", 'ad come out of the cabin i', 'sequently, when the Peven', 'dge Susan her luck, but it w', 't him get started abou', 'rta-ow!"\n\nThe other two were much mo', '.\n\nEustace Clarence di', 'icheep, like a good fell', "idn't call his Father a", 'ace made faces and splut', 'tern and her deck became vi', '. She fell in love with it at once-th', 'schools.\n\nEustace', 'ch was the name of their own private', 'tace Clarence and masters ', 'own much smaller or the picture had g', ' been horribly seasick. The l', 'really moving. And the water looks a', 'stead, she went down on one knee ', 'ed and looking at a picture on ', 'ed panels (all birds and beas', 'nd people looking at her from the deck. ', "changed. I'll give yo", " you don't know already, you ha", ' and the windows were always open.\n\nEus', 'nded him deeply. Instead, she we', 's, non-smokers and', 'dventures, but, ju', ' like a good fellow."\n\n"To the convenie', 'as living in a small cottage wi', 'ng dashed against its side. Ev', 'ormation and had pictures ', 'and had pictures of grain el', "'t call his Fathe", 'ould it be made with disti', 'r weeks, and the motion of the s', ' they were waiting till the momen', 'r green and tried another lo', 'other "Father" and "Mother", ', ' But he had somehow becom', 'rue that she would have got on m', 's and spluttere', 'ith streaks and', '. You never know till you', 'n that side was full of', 'e was very little furniture and ve', 'it was dreadful having to spend', 'hilt of a sword very nearly as long as', 'hey were going up and down. He h', 'door on the starboard si', 'pen. They were still quite ne', 'dmund and Lucy were stealing a few p', 'be got on board the ship with', ' sea, and perhaps', ' quite near the s', 'warks, ropes being', 'ly big but she did no', ' on its hind legs and stood', "g except your Majesties' presence wa", 'oking at her from the deck. Then, as ', 'things outside the do', ' their best endeavours she had ', 'ry in the secon', ' was only a picture', 'ast of all came the stranger-a golden-he', 'is she took in in a flash, for Caspia', 'e table, the swinging si', 'd at the very same hour of the very sam', 'ecause, if not--', 'rather green and tried another l', 'ack to our world ', 'you are in your own home and t', ' his left leg, drew back his rig', 'hree all to America, and Susan had go', 'im feel sick again. He t', 's room, sitting on the e', ' was why it was put away in a', 'little surprised. Something very curiou', 'ile it was only a picture. Still', 'smell, the wild, br', 'stace Clarence, who had been lis', ' had worked hard at ', 'standing here in your wet thing', 'f a trip to America ', 'crimson feather. (As the Mous', 'stion of honour must giv', ', to take Reepicheep up in ', ' hard for an exa', "n of course, Lucy, but I'm afraid we ha", 'f all came the str', 's venture."\n\n"Ugh, take it ', 'e head of a dragon with w', 'as real. They had alre', ' presently began talking again.\n\n"Do', 'fell on her from', ' Caspian immediately o', ' next station.\n\n"This is a merry shi', 'arboard.) All the sunlight fell on', ' approve of that.\n\n"You\'re not wanted he', 'n towards you, w', 'd by old Professo', 'ned a door on th', 'ndy day; but the wind', "ou don't know already", 'called Edmund and Lucy th', 'ill come back to our wo', 'had a bruised knee when she finall', ') "Nothing exce', 'the picture frame hanging above t', 'y with fright and bad temp', 'because the ship looks as if it', ' feet high. A thin band of gold p', ' a few precious minutes a', 'd Peter and Susa', 'id Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEustace r', 'ays open.\n\nEustac', "Stop it. I'll tell Albert", 'berta. They were ve', 'med a very long delay during whic', 'on an afternoon when Edmund and', ' Narnia. And a ', 't Narnia\nGot gradually balmier', 'nd four silver cups. It was jus', 'he wall and found himself standing on t', 'etter if she had used a slow', 'animals, especially beetles, if they we', 'Eustace with his cheerful smile.', 't summer, and Mother w', "ng animals. They're silly ", ', who had been listening ', ' give you up my', 'e lockers while he spoke-', 'Eustace Clarence, who had been listen', "r Majesties' presence wa", 'f the waves in the picture made him fe', 'went a great shock of spray. And then u', 'e rotten thing," cried Eustace; an', ' up again. At the same moment an', 'cause the ship looks as if it was real', 'ffect was bold and striking.) Its left p', 'Oh! Ugh! What on earth', 'he sides of the sh', 'sly running fast before a gay wind', "e chance.\n\nThey were in Lucy's ", 'ght to do who fall', ' and out-of-doo', 's older than herself.\n\n', 'tace clutched at ', 'ook of the waves in the picture made ', 'eel the warmth going right down to thei', 'ays at their Aunt\'s. "Bu', 'he could manage. His sho', 'p-a ship sailing nea', ' too big for her, but she c', 'ad and kicked her shoes off, as ', 'rom the ship, heads crowdi', 'ht they had got their', 'st run up to the top of one gl', 'e, square sail which ', ' thing," cried Eusta', " and asked if they hadn't", 'ently from ours. If you ', 'ad helped to set on the thr', ' get started about Art and al', 'e you up my cabin', 'rnoon when Edmund ', 'ays when she had been a que', "Aunt Alberta didn't ", ' And then up went the ', ' the blue, swirling wate', 'really convinced Lucy that she ', 'ory begins on an afternoon when Edm', 'n!" gasped Lucy as soon as she h', 'ng to think of a limerick," sai', ' happening. The things in', 'rly as long as its tail.', 'y. "And she is such a very Narnian s', 'ic, which is the only way of gettin', 'tion.\n\n"This is a merry s', 'ustace Clarence l', 't. Their secret', 'ee the picture frame hanging abov', ' the four Pevensies, Peter', 'see the picture frame h', 'wards you. Her prow', 'lean and out-of-d', ' him deeply. Instea', 'ous blue wave, and ', 'u went back to Narnia after spending a w', 'and clean and out-of', 'he most valiant', 'mouths.\n\nWhat they were seeing may', 'ing coached by old Professor', 'ishing of waves and the slap of water', 'being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smas', 'and drew them down into the sea. Eus', 's, and said in his shrill, pipin', 'hip-what you could see', 'e. The sides of the ship-wh', 'l, the wild, briny smell, which really c', "idn't say anything. The", 's far too stupid to make', ' three square window', ' is better than nothing," said Lucy', 'y moment he looked at the', 'aying with the Peve', 'n for weeks, and the motion of the s', "have no women's clothes ", 'a special kind of underclothes. In thei', ' waves in the picture made him f', ' had somehow become poor since the', 'nd all that," sai', 'ater, and had caught the arms of ', ' were seeing may be hard to b', ' him if his heart sank. He was prom', 'hought they had got their balance a ', 'l get them taken', 'all standing here in', 'an arm under her from the other', 'stare at Eustace', 'n the back with great d', 'd her bows went ', 'n in the poop and was ', 'day, or no time at all', '. It would have co', 'spered Caspian to Edmund', 'nd of underclothes. In their house th', 's hard to believ', ' were making it all u', '\'t like it."\n\n"Le', 'nt\'s. "But it\'s far worse', 'm to spare. It would have cost too', 'They had got there of cours', ' very Narnian ship."\n\n"Still playing y', 'o deep water in', '"\n\nLucy found hers', 'for her age) and Moth', ' Narnia, which was', ' said Caspian to one', ' at once, turning to Eustace with his ', 't the wave behind he', 'san, Edmund and Lucy.', 'ucy grabbed at him from the other s', 'ing with the Pevensies, he h', 'uld bear performing animals. ', 't, and its manners courtly. Lucy and E', "b. I can't tell you h", 'ter if she had used a slower s', 'een listening ou', 'ry Narnian ship."\n\n"Sti', ' was (for the Narnians) as if Ki', 'ept her mouth shu', 'only one bedroom to spare. It w', "ho couldn't have stood up e", 'summer holidays at their Aunt\'s. "But ', '"Bring spiced wine for ', 'r from that side, and ', "but she couldn't get rid of it be", ' much indeed as if', 'since the old days and wa', ' adventures, but, just exactly as Eust', 'ater astern, the lo', 'ked animals, especially beetles, i', 'ies because they and P', ' waves flecked with', ' trying to think of a limerick," s', ' Edmund on the ', ' smile. But Eustace was cry', 'e it away, the horrid thing."\n\nHe real', 'ful adventures long ago in the war ye', 'ht have expected, Eustace clu', 'things," said Caspian. "Come on bel', 'd wind and waves rushing up to t', ' up and down."\n\n', 'n the house that they', 'ut and not to be a fool. Lucy grabbed a', 'ummy is," said Ed', ' she had done a goo', 'ing Edmund, too." (Her', 'y, or no time at all. You ', '. "But where?"\n\nEustac', 'ays open.\n\nEustace Clarence liked', 'nd perhaps he\'ll go away."', 'igure diving off ', 'ed to see the picture frame h', ' could manage. His shoes, sa', 'u step outside," said Edmund', ' as soon as she had breath enough.', ' they were talking about Narni', 'now till you get there. Conseque', 'was a Mouse on ', 'tealing a few precious minu', 'Well, for one thing," said Lucy, ', 'e books of information and had p', 'a, you would still come back to', 'y when nothing worse than a w', 'o talk to him.\n\nR', 'is glorious venture."\n\n"Ugh, take i', 'on\'t rhyme, to begin with," said Luc', 'agic, which is the only way of getti', '" said Caspian to one of the', 'ded him deeply. I', '(By the way, if ', 'a and he loved teasi', 'heads crowding together abov', 's Vitaminised Nerve', ' with some of mine. Lead the way, Reepi', ' "whether it doesn\'t mak', 'mer term. It is ', 'e ship without being dashed a', 'both spreading wit', " performing animals. They're silly and ", 'eds and the windows we', ' when he had been', ' Alberta. They were ver', 'wn. He had only', ' get started about', 'ay for ten years. Peter was wo', ' precious minutes alone together. And', 'm where the gilded wings of the d', 'd only once been in a ship (and then o', 'a ship (and then only as far as the', 'el schools.\n\nEustace Clar', 'ter if she had used a slower stroke, a', 'herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" gasped Lucy ', 'st what one wanted, and as Lucy and Ed', " Caspian's cabin for weeks, and the", 'p-to-date and advanced people. The', 'ed, as she had always done, to take Reep', 's it does on a ', ' him.\n\nReepicheep put forward hi', ' see it if you step outside," said', 'lots of answers ', 'en. They were still ', 'r side and was dragged forw', ' poop and was slowly approaching them.', ' Narnia. And a promise, or v', 'rame and they w', 'became visible for the first time, and t', 'lance a great blue roller surged up r', ' the Isle of Wight) and had b', 'without being dashed against its', 'astern, the low cushi', 'he frame and the', 'wn bigger. Eustace jumped', "rse, Lucy, but I'm afraid we have no w", 'ry little furniture and v', "n earth's that!", ' and perhaps he\'ll go away."', 'here was a second of strugglin', 'ound her. After that followed what seeme', 'knew at once by its exqu', 'ere, you might find th', 'sure she could neve', 'minutes alone together. And of ', 'oon as she had breath enough. ', 'he Isle of Wight) and had been horribly', 'wn towards you, with', 'r shoes off, as everyo', 'he wind was blowing out of th', 'm, and paler blue sky, both', 'd shouting, and just as they thought', 'ts green side towering high above th', 'd about two feet high. A ', 'o share a bedroom with that', 'him was not glass but real sea', 'ly. Instead, she ', 'e over-all high, steady roar of air an', 'led his whiskers, and said in ', ' only a day, or no time at all. You n', 'either have cleared out', 'a special kind of underclothes. In', 'deal colder than ', 'king and the over-all high, steady', 'nt to offend.\n\nI', 'inning into the room. Last year, when ', ' spat it out and ', ' were hopelessly', 's look as if they were re', '" said Caspian. "Come o', 't was put away in a little back r', 'ans) as if King Arthur cam', 'ut of the picture towa', ' when he had been stay', 'd been horribly seasick. The ', 'ema either; the colo', "'t look at all like a ", "t it really couldn't be helped. Father", ' be hard to believe whe', ' as much at home as', 'But Eustace was crying much h', 'e flat gold image of A', 'ut where?"\n\nEustace rushe', ' played games about Narnia\nGo', " nothing and perhaps he'll", 'he way, Reepicheep, like ', 'estion is," said ', 'is time for feeling a little surprised', "moving. It didn't look at all l", 'Something very curious indeed', 'one together. And of cou', 'larence disliked his cousin', 't because it had been a w', 'All this she took in i', ' And by this time either they had grown', 'mund, "whether it doesn\'t make thi', 'indy day. And this was a', 'it was only a picture. Still, she kept h', "under your Majesty's protection? Be", 'voice, squeaky w', 't back to Narnia after spen', 'e. "I hate mice. And I never could ', 'spend the holidays being co', 'ue sky, both spreadi', '. She felt quite sure they', 'Eustace with his che', "own into the sea. Eustace's despairi", ' Edmund was heaved up, an', ' passed, or only a ', ' visit. Immediately Edmund recognised h', 'ools.\n\nEustace Clarence dis', 'spian to Edmund', 'ither; the colours were too real a', 'were always open.\n\nEustace C', 'f course they were talking about Nar', 'called Eustace Claren', " spotlessly clean. Caspian's clot", 'e with only one', 'ng coached by ol', 'ings," said Casp', 't make things worse', 'out of the picture', 'cy were luckier t', 'he holidays being coached by ol', 'ently, when the Pevensi', 'f that wave came d', '-boots were hope', 'ed wine for their Majesties. ', 's. It was just what', 'y with fright and bad', 'l cottage with only one bedroo', ' thing."\n\nHe really had ', 'reality. They had got', 'en had returned t', ' this:\n\n"Some kids who played games', 'id Caspian to one of t', 'he water rushing past and ', 'eter was working ver', 'on\'t rhyme, to begin with," ', ' was the only picture in ', '" and "Mother", but Ha', "e's despairing cry suddenly ended as t", '," whispered Cas', 'd not want to offend.\n\nIt wa', 'itaminised Nerve Food and could it be', 'ving in a small cottage with on', "ajesties' presence was lacking", '.\n\nWhat they were seeing may', ' has happened to him, and would only yel', 'was not very long', ' fright and bad temper. "It', 'once-Reepicheep, the most valiant of a', ' tail. Its balance, as it p', 's Lucy found herself passing', 'ash, for Caspian immediate', 'are going to read this sto', 'they had helped t', ' feel the warmth going right down t', 'rs older than herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian', 'or no time at all. You nev', 'ork, she knew at once by its exq', ' a fool. Lucy grabbed at him from', 'd-and sentimental."\n\n"Am I to unders', 'er. But it was t', 'about magic, sprang ', ' and over the other and in t', ' staying with the Pevensies,', ' they were going', ', and drew them down into the sea. ', ' go?" said Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEu', ' all, and if you d', 'imself, he did not appr', 'arnian ship."\n\n"Still ', 'e. "Something like this:\n\n"Some kids w', 'on undying glory in the se', 'e wind came the noises-the sw', 'n which you left. And then, if you went ', ' to pull it off the wall', 'ring spiced wine for t', 'ip into the wave and up', 's side. Edmund was close ', 'the ship did not worry her, fo', ' right to cry when nothing worse t', 'out it a good deal, when they got th', 'e him he liked bossing and bullying; a', ' make anything up ', ' had got there of course b', 'n horribly seasick. The look', 're," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see it i', 'ing; and, though h', 'nd Lucy were co', 'very nearly a promise, had been made', 'th," said Lucy.\n\n"It\'s an assonance,"', ' to warm you after that dip." He called', ' mice. And I never could bear perf', 'th all their best endeavour', 'did not want to offend.', ' picture. Still, she kept her head an', 'ia, you would still come', 'd visit, it was (for the Narni', 'hey had got there of course by Mag', "Caspian's clothes were too big ", 'to be dried."\n\nLucy found herself as ', 'house that they lik', 'oking is better', 'ce.\n\n"Don\'t ask him wha', ' paced gravely along the sw', 'sentimental."\n\n"Am I to un', 'ia. And a promise, or very nearly a ', 'ung about grinning, and p', ' when you can\'t get there."\n\n"Even ', 'rubb, and he almost', '\n\nEustace Clarence liked animals, e', 't all (that was ', 'an chattering. In reali', 'day. And this was a windy day;', 'went the prow of the ship into ', ' get them taken to the galley to be', 'opes being thrown. Edmund and the strang', 'er slope of that wav', 'ain.) "Nothing except your Majesties\' p', 'hall have to sh', 'cy. "And she is such a', 's crowding together above', "ere in Lucy's room, sitti", 'saw a white figure diving off the sh', 'their clothes. She ', 'ay with Uncle Harold and Aunt Alb', 'boots were hopelessly big but sh', ' had got a job lecturing ', '," said Edmund hur', 't once, turning', 'eath. She felt ', 'surprised. Something very curious inde', 'e go back. I do', 'e stranger-a golden-headed boy so', 'a great cold, salt splas', ' very tiny but b', 'o big for her, but she could manage. His', 'aid Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one t', 'r one thing," said ', 'h he was a puny little pers', ' convenience of a', 'g barefoot on board ship. When sh', ' shaped like the head ', 'ed him Eustace Cl', 'when he had been staying with the Pev', ' of the waves in the picture mad', 'ong the swaying ', "y little person who couldn't h", 'bed flapped, rose an', 'oom with that record stinker, Eustace', 'had somehow become poor since the ol', 'r an exam and he was to spend', 'rm under her from the ot', ' and then disappeared ', 'tace was crying', 'really moving. And the ', 'ed them on and in ', 'one knee to talk to him.\n\nRee', "Lucy's bedroom. What he saw was b", 'de, as if he expected to s', 'sk him what an assy-thin', ' money to take the oth', 'little surprise', 'was (for the Narnians) as ', 'for an exam and he was to spend the', 'wn."\n\nOf course Eustace ', 'in Narnia she had done a good d', " for he had none. He didn't call his", "ed him Scrubb. I can't t", 't as they thought they had got t', 'hing very curious i', 're at the next station.\n\n"This ', 'the ship; she saw it', 'was working very ha', 'ngsters". Edmund and Lucy tried not to g', ' far as the Isle of Wigh', 'quare sail which was a rich p', 'o King Edmund, too." (He', ' wave behind her, and her', 'Professor Kirke in w', 'not approve of that.\n\n', 'begin with," said Lucy.', 'who had been listening outside the doo', 'rather green and tried another look. An', 'hey had helped to set on th', 'coached by old Professor Kirke in whose', 'cy longed, as she had alway', ' could be got on board the ship wit', "y, but I'm afraid we have no women'", ' and Mother "Father" and "Mot', 'cousins the four Pevens', ' must give way-at least for the', 'on the back with great delight.\n\n"But wh', 'und curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying', 'other, it was darker blue from t', 'eople say he wi', "ip's sides and the c", ' little furniture and ve', 'er her from the other sid', 'ca, and Susan ha', 'is your friend?" said Caspian almost a', 'haps we can hardly blame him if his h', 'ken right out of the frame an', 'ced people. They were vegetarians, non', 'me for feeling a little surprised. Som', 'of us it is only', 'd be got on board the ship', 'n. Edmund and the stranger were faste', 'se face was vaguely famil', 'he knew at once by its ex', 'nd. "He\'s only longing to be asked. ', 'green. She had just ', 'was not dreaming', 'e face was vaguely familiar, slipped', 'nd the windows w', ' hustled them on and in a few minutes L', ' real. They had already visited it t', 'f Wight) and had been horribly seasick', 'queen in Narnia she had', 'ard ship. When she had finished dressing', 'maller or the picture had grown bigge', 'er that followed what', "except your Majesties' presen", ' but she did not mind going barefoot', 'tures long ago ', 'taken to the galley to', 'e Pevensie childr', 'the waves and saw that they d', 'excuse this time for feeling', 'the moment--" and here he ', 'or myself"-he was rumm', 'urple. The side', 'exercise book which had been ', 'Edmund and Lucy did not at all want to', ' blowing out of the picture towa', 'y were breathless from the', ' and bubbles on it. Sh', 's time for feeling a little surpri', 'Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one ', 'an ship."\n\n"Still playing yo', 'aid Edmund. "He\'s only lon', "ether it doesn't make thing", 'id Edmund. "He\'s only longing to ', 'd only yell out, "Let me', 'ot on board ship. When s', 'ce. And I never could bear perfor', 'ure and very few clot', 'd stinker, Eustace."\n\nThe story begins', 'too. All three shook ha', 'ake Reepicheep up in ', 'ter. But it was the smell, th', 'r said she "would get far mor', 'im, and would on', 'despairing cry suddenly ended as ', 'ing may be hard to believe when you r', 'd. He liked books if they were ', 'spian to Edmund with a chuckle; but befo', 'y is," said Edmund. "He\'s onl', 'ndeed it was-a Mouse. But then it was', ' had always done, to tak', 'very few clothes on the beds and t', 'd her bows went up again. At the same m', 'dmund and Lucy were ', 'ither they had grown much sm', ' too much money to t', 're waiting till the moment', 'as crying much harder than any boy of', 'the colours were too real and clean and ', '\nThere was a boy called Eustac', 'aspian it was; Caspian, the', 'there was very little furniture', 'k of a limerick," said Eustace. "', 'cheep, like a good fellow."\n\n"To the c', 'right out of the frame ', 'on\'t rhyme, to begin with,"', 'for the moment--" and here he ', "Let me go. Let me go back. I don't ", 'water felt a gr', "eather. (As the Mouse's fur was very d", 've brought us, Brother," wh', 'ad pictures of grain', ' almost deserved it', '." (Here he bowed a', 'tare at Eustace, "that', 'e steaming in a fla', 'ally convinced Lucy ', 'hen she could be got on bo', 'ad under one ear and over the other', 'uch at home as if she', 'ht us, Brother," whispered ', 'gravely along the swaying deck, was pe', 'he was rummaging i', ' the water got into h', ' straightened himself, twirl', 'ho had been listening outside the', 'ugh the door into the stern cab', 'ew minutes Lucy found herself passing ', 'is port, and the right ', 'em. And suddenly with the wind ca', 'aspian, the boy king of Narn', 'other people in that respect. Their secr', 'ows were always open.\n\nEustace', 'ruggling and shouting, an', 'cond visit, it was (f', 'sies, he had managed to', 'ce was lacking to this glorious ', 'r. "It\'s some s', ' to cry again and asked', 'gain.) "Nothing except ', 'e much more accustomed to ad', 'p my cabin of course, L', 'e."\n\nThe story b', 'er above the bulwarks, r', 'of course they were talking about Na', "lled him Scrubb. I can'", 'u like that picture?" he asked.\n\n"For ', 'forward. And by', ' got blue and her teeth began chattering', '. You may imagine th', ' something to warm you ', 'e going up and down. He', 'ip-a ship sailing nearly straight towar', ' insisted on being put ash', "you don't know already, y", ' her bed and look', 'and paler blue s', 't again.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on earth\'s t', 'bviously running fast be', 'ing to think of a limerick," sa', 'dy roar of air and water. Bu', 'e very old for her age) an', 'all talking of Narnia an', "nge. If you'll fling your wet things o", 'larence disliked his cousins the ', ' the sooner the bette', 'ain.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What on', ' might have expected, E', ' (all birds and beasts and cri', 'rivate and secret country. Most o', "rfs' work, she knew at o", '\n\n"Some kids wh', 's blowing out of the picture towards', 'ng to Eustace with his cheerfu', 'edding present from someone she did n', 'ay he will. And I say', 'early a promise, had', 'ind him, and Lucy felt all her h', 'hey talked about it ', 'on the bed flapped, rose and ', 'wn on one knee to talk to him.\n\nReepiche', 'nk. He was promptly sick.\n\n', 'cted, Eustace clutched at her in ', 'dmund was heaved up, a', 'er. "It\'s some sil', 'er than nothing,"', 'ing nearly straight towards yo', 'gs in the picture were moving. It did', 'en mouth. She had only on', 'ther "Father" and "Mother", but ', 'and the windows were always ope', ' he saw was blue waves flecked with foam', 'the next station.\n\n"This is', ' Edmund and the stranger we', ' convenience of a lady," ', 'a chuckle; but before he could s', 'might call it-and indeed it was-a Mouse', 'And by this time either they had grown m', 'ious venture."\n\n"U', 'eople in that respect. Their secret c', 'y day. And this was a win', 'ged up round them, swept them off th', 's age has a right to cry whe', '. And then all three children', 'air and water. But it was the smell, the', 'de him. There was a second of struggling', 'cture. Edmund, who knew something about ', 'gan to cry again and asked if they h', 'ta-ow!"\n\nThe other two were much', "n in Caspian's cabin for weeks", ' the prow of the ship into the wave ', ' the waves in the picture made ', 'ill the moment when she could be ', "nged. I'll give you up my cabin", 's open. They were ', 'aw its green side towering high ab', 'good deal of voyaging. The cabin was', 'h the rotten th', 'or Kirke in whose house these ', 'ught to do who falls ', 'thes. In their house there was very ', ' quite glad when he heard that E', 'delicacy) and the', ", and if you don't know a", 'ery old for her age) and Mother said sh', 'r on the starboard side, and', 'xam and he was ', ' once been in a ship (and then only a', 'urious indeed had com', 'ns, non-smokers ', 'urse they were talki', 't all like a cine', 'hip into the wave and up went a gr', 's when she had been a queen in Narnia s', 'duty to your Majest', ' spray. And then up went the wave behin', "e rushed to the ship's side, as ", 'twice; not in a ga', 'is she took in in', ' was not dreamin', ' here, you might find that a thousa', 'ia, you would still ', ' who had jumped up be', 't approve of that.\n', 'ither have cleared out or f', 'haps he\'ll go away."\n', 'er bed and looking at a pi', 'er mouth shut an', 'is time for feel', 'course Eustace knew lots of a', ' her teeth began chattering. In', 'nker, Eustace."\n\nThe story', ' bullying; and, though he was a', 'berta-ow!"\n\nThe other two were much more', 'e children had re', 'evensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund ', 'rd wall above the door. All this ', 'ame of their own p', 'r, when he had been staying with t', 'aves and the slap of water against ', ' ship (and then onl', 'sy-thingummy is," said Edmund.', "aps he'll go away", 'ough he was a puny little person ', 'nt when she could', 'ound its head under one ear and ove', 'f ways to give people a bad time if yo', 'was the smell, the wild, briny sm', 'the house that they liked. Aun', "ally couldn't be", ' he liked bossi', 'almost black, the effect was bold a', 'alled Eustace Clar', 'long deep breath. Sh', 'thing," cried Eustace; a', 'as no good at school ', 'ue wave, and the nearer slope of that ', 'ther; the colours were too real and ', 'cture made him feel sick again. ', 'und curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to think', 'eality the delay was not very lon', 'they were making it all up; and as he', ' if you are in your own home a', ' the holidays bei', "he had none. He didn't ca", 'ulgar and-and sentimenta', 'neither. He just hung about grinnin', "Lucy. I'll just get ", 'n staying with the Pevens', 'and Lucy did not at all want ', ' wind was blowi', 'pian to one of the sail', ' called Eustace Clarence Scru', 'lled him Eustace Clarence ', ' they were breathless f', 'll. It was the only picture in the ', 'r stroke, and also that t', 'ing. The cabin was very t', 'd.\n\n"What a fool I am to keep you', 've a room of your own and I ', 'And I never could bear performi', "idn't look at all like a cinema either;", 'ried another look', 'to the top of one glorious', 'have cost too much money to take the', 'il. Its balance, as it paced gravely ', ' in a ship (and then only as far ', ' and kicked her shoes off, a', 'iately Edmund recognised him too. Al', 'he dragon ended-were green. She ', 'much more accus', '.) Its left paw rested on ', ' want to come and stay ', 'n the beds and the windows', ' very Narnian ship."\n\n"Still p', 'n with," said Lucy.\n\n"It\'s an asso', 'ould feel the warmth goin', 'ed to hear them all talking of ', ' hard at Eustace. But Caspian hustle', " she hadn't had a real holiday", 'always done, to take R', 'an other people in ', 'd worked hard a', 'othing worse than a wetting ha', 'reat shock of spray. And then up went t', ', and also that the water felt a great d', "ure diving off the ship's side. Edm", 't before a gay wind, listing over a litt', 'gs worse, looking at a Narnia', ' and bullying; and, though he was', 's crowding together above the b', 'came to meet her and her bows wen', 'could it be made with distilled water', 'arly discourteous perso', 't. He thought of course ', ' parents called him Eu', ' spiced wine steaming in a flagon and f', 'ded as the water got into hi', 'ich you left. And then,', 'ing above the sea, and perhaps a glimpse', 'feeling a little surprised. Som', 'nt to offend.\n\nI', "n earth's that! Take i", 'are sail which was a rich ', 'had breath enough. For ', 'HE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nT', 'ns of ways to give people a bad tim', 'ter him, warning him to look out ', 'ame; in front of him w', 'd her face as it does on a windy d', 'd was sick again and began to ', 'tace, "that this singularly disc', "ew them down into the sea. Eustace's de", '\nThe other two were much more acc', ' Edmund hurriedly, but Lucy, who', 'uny little person who ', ' limerick," said Eu', ' her bed and lookin', 'd a door on the s', ' which had been lying beside Edmund on ', 'waves flecked with foam, and paler blue', 'h that record stinker, Eustace."\n\nT', 'she would have got on m', 'the old days and was living in a smal', ' Eustace Clarence Scrubb, an', '-thingummy is," said Edmun', ' thousand Narnian years h', 'or the Narnians) a', 'as the smell, the wild, b', 'd jumped up beside him. There wa', 'eople looking at her from the ', ' the horrid thing."\n\nHe really had som', ' Eustace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him wha', 'lf"-he was rummaging in one ', "hed to the ship's sid", ' picture had grown big', 'eve when you read it in print, but', 'these four children had had wonderf', '. Eustace rushed towards the picture', 'to America, and S', 'r and over the other and in thi', 'Ca-Caspian!" gasped Lucy as ', 'w it happening. The th', '?" said Caspian. "B', 'Caspian immediatel', 'e story begins on an afternoon ', 's glorious venture."\n\n"Ugh, take ', ' game?" said Eustace Clarence, ', '\n"For Heaven\'s sake don\'t', 'at once by its exquisite del', 've got on much better ', 'vines) and spotlessly c', 'ncle Harold and Aunt Alb', ' beetles, if they we', "It didn't look at all like", 'e and advanced people. They were vegetar', ' like it?" said Eustac', 'runa. Lucy longed, as she had always do', 'ake anything up himself, he did not', 'y its exquisite', 'y truthful, had alrea', 'n they both went.\n\nWhen they came up a', ' the Lion on the f', 'either. He just hung about g', 'f Wight) and had been horri', 'o make do with s', 'right is starboard.) All th', 'ou, with streaks and bubbles on it', 'out Narnia, which was the name of their ', 'oth spreading withou', 'colours were too real a', "I'll just get some dry ", 'n they came up again', 'was gilded and shaped like', 'nd stood about two feet h', 'wn."\n\nOf course Eustace kne', 'hey talked about it a good deal, w', 'are dozens of ways to give people a ba', ' it was almost as hard', 'him get started abo', 'blue roller surged up ro', 'hey liked. Aunt Albert', 'ip. When she had finished', 'all it-and indeed it was-a Mouse. But ', 'ake do with some of mine. Lead the way', 'and Mother "Father" and "Mothe', 'ans) as if King Arthur came', 'lers and wore a special kind of underclo', 'en the miserable Eu', 'stace."\n\nThe story begins o', 'naged to hear them a', 'hey would some day get ba', 's a rotten picture," said Eustace.\n\n"You', 'tare at Eustace, "th', 'lidays at their Aunt', ' he\'ll go away."\n\nMost boys, o', 'fter him, warning him to l', 's open. They were still quite ', ' image of Aslan the Li', 'ite sure they were', 'he motion of the ship did not ', 'sently began talking a', ' ten years. Peter was work', 'ouse that they liked. Aunt', 's and Queens of Narnia', 'm that side, and the water on that', '(By the way, if you are going to read', 'at once-Reepichee', '"\n\nHe really had some', 'op and was slowly ', "s in the picture were moving. It didn't", ' a few minutes Lucy found herself pas', 'blowing out of the pictur', 'tle on her port side', ' just what one wanted, an', 'g to spend the summer holidays', 'HE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy called E', 'eading without a br', 'sank. He was promptly s', 'ppened to him, and would ', 'ence said "Ow," they both said', ' same day on which you ', ' was blowing out', 'e question is," s', 'high above them, and people looking a', 'here," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m ', 'othes on board. You', 'd and Lucy tried not to g', 'en to the galley to be dried."\n\nLucy', 'nd Mother was to go with', 'f she had used a', 'ave stood up even to Lucy, l', "arnia and balmier don'", 'some dry things for myself"-', ' stars that she had w', 'he other two were much more a', ' had had wonderful', 'listening outside the', 'haps we can hardly blame him if his he', 'that there are dozens of wa', ' on her port side. (By', 'nd curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to ', ' her the pretty one of the family', 'she looked out o', ' without a break to the ', "r room, Lucy. I'll just get some dry thi", 'rd to believe when you saw it happe', 'usand Narnian years had pa', 'me. Narnian time ', ' stroke, and also that', 'ly going up and d', ' on much better if s', "This'll be your room", ' door and now came grinning i', ' have cost too much money to take the', 'was the smell, the wild, brin', 'em, swept them off their f', 'ree children were staring with open mo', 'of us it is only an imaginary coun', 'ow of the ship.\n\n"Th', 'f Beruna. Lucy longed, as she ha', "been in Caspian's cabin for wee", 'either; the colours we', ' dashed against it', ' said Lucy.\n\n"It\'s a', 's flecked with foam, and paler blue sk', 'nd visit, it was (for the N', 'arms and cuddle him. But this, as sh', " You'll need something to warm you", 'tly as Eustace Clarence said', 'er side and was dr', 's. It was just what', ' would still come back to our wor', 'your own and I ', 'e; and then sev', ' way of getting to Narnia. And a p', 'bedroom to spare. It would have cost too', " balmier don't rhyme, to beg", 'ds and clapped one anoth', ' could feel the warmth going right down', 'He was promptly ', "him, for he had none. He didn't call hi", 'ith all their best end', "f you'll fling your wet thi", 'nd, too." (Here he b', 'uld some day get back', ".\n\nThey were in Lucy's room, sittin", ' puny little person who couldn', 'ace made faces and spluttered and sp', 'ed something to w', 'id Edmund, "whether it do', ' of the ship did n', 'at the left of a sh', 'nd as Lucy and Edmund sipped it they ', 'And I say the sooner the bett', 'magic, sprang af', 'at she would have g', 'rclothes. In thei', 'friend?" said Caspian almost at once, ', 'stening ropes round her. Af', "re were moving. It didn't look a", 'ou like it?" said Eustace to L', 'ad done a good deal of vo', 'hip."\n\n"Still play', 'uch at home as if she had bee', 'hour of the very same day on which y', ". You'll need something to warm you a", 'rted about Art and all that," sai', 'were too big for her, ', 'I shall have to share ', 'He liked books if they were bo', 'l behind him, and', "ur Majesty's pro", 'op and was slowly approac', "You'll have to make do wi", 'in Narnia itself that they woul', 'us, I suppose, have a s', 'et rid of it because it had b', 'r feeling a little surprised. Somethi', ' round three sides of', ' one large, square sail ', ' his whiskers, and said in ', 'ate and advanced peopl', "lumptree's Vitamin", 'ch money to take the other three all t', 'Caspian it was; Caspian, the bo', 'could feel the warmt', 'els (all birds and b', 'hey had got there of cou', 'nia and he loved teasing them abou', 'ehind him, and Lucy felt ', "sty's protection? ", 'ver the other and in this was', "'s clothes on board. You'", 'en doing exercises in model schools.\n', ' Food and could it be made wi', 'go?" said Caspian. "But where?"\n\nEus', 'ay was not very long; th', ' of a trip to Americ', '?"\n\nEustace rushe', "ed. I'll give you up my cabin of cou", ' the door into the st', 'horrid thing."\n\nHe really had some', 'han nothing," said Lucy. "And she is su', ', had been made them in Narnia ', 'glorious venture."\n\n', 'the smell, the wild, br', ' sailing nearly straigh', ' and Peter and Susan had all been ', ' again.) "Nothing ', 'ng a little surpr', 'eople in that respect. Their se', 'ping round her face as it does o', ' had been in Casp', '!"\n\nThe other two were mu', ' shoes off, as everyone', 'e four children had had wonderful adve', 'u read it in print, but it was almost as', 'ncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But it', 'outh. She had only on', ' had managed to hear them all talking', "and balmier don't rhyme, to begin with", 'did not at all want to come an', ' and pinned on a card. He lik', 'been a wedding pres', ' nothing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n', '\n\n"Hey! Rynelf," said Caspian to one', 'y. Lucy and Edmund', ' Narnia, you would still come', 'a card. He liked books if they ', 'em on and in a few', 'u are in your ow', 'ators or of fat foreign ', "your Majesties' presenc", 'hem, swept them off their feet, an', 'be made with dis', ' the waves and saw that they did look ', 'ested on the hilt of', ' hard to believe when you read it i', ' because the ship looks as i', 'lse, whose face was vaguely famili', 'or the Narnians) as if King Arthur cam', ' away in a little back room', 'g voice:\n\n"My humble duty to you', ' down to their toes. But Eustace', 'l in love with it at once-the th', 'f one glorious blue wave, and the', 'urged up round ', ' hate mice. And I neve', 'n the war years. If he had still been in', 'their clothes. She', 'd pinned on a c', 'had them all to sta', 'ery few clothes on the beds ', 'ry same hour of the very same day o', 'pter I\n\nTHE PICTURE', 'Got gradually b', 'forward. And by this time either the', 'icture of a ship-a ship sailing nearly s', ' Lucy that she was not dreamin', ' the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan,', 'rimson dragons and vines) and spotlessly', 'es, he had managed to hear them al', 'ed Nerve Food and co', 'ion on the forward wall ab', 'next station.\n\n"Thi', 'how become poor since the old days', 'she well knew, was a ple', ' from the other side and ', 'ched at her in a pani', 'ught to do who falls into deep wate', ' like this, would either have clear', 'd fellow."\n\n"To the ', '"even a question of', 'mind going barefoot on board shi', 'e seeing may be hard to b', 'ey were going up and down.', 'er than it had looked while it', 'aspian, the boy king of Nar', ' behind him, and Lucy felt all he', 'her port side. (By', "as if she had been in Caspian's ca", 'ir last visit. Im', 'd advanced people. They were vegetarians', 'ediately Edmund recognise', 'their Aunt\'s. "But it\'s far worse for ', 'd, and as Lucy and Edmund sipped it th', 'etting to Narnia. And a promi', 'nt back to Narnia after spending a week ', 'd only one mast and one la', 'res, but, just ex', "eather. (As the Mouse's fur was v", 'scourteous person is under your Majes', 'ready, you had bette', ' other side. There was a lo', 'cious minutes alo', ' is," said Edmund. ', 'r and in this w', '.\n\n"Well, for one thing," said ', 'window at the water rushing past', 'th shut and her eyes open', 'and the over-all high, s', "ushed to the ship's s", ' an imaginary country. Edmu', 'k hands and clapped one anot', 'her have cleared out or flar', 'g ahead, is port, and the right', 'd him too. All th', 'dventures, but, just exactly as Eustac', 'exercises in model schools.\n\nEust', 'to him, and would only yell o', 'ng on the edge of her be', 'e him. There was a ', 'gs happened at th', 'ure?" he asked.\n\n"For Hea', ' all (that was why it was put aw', 'e and they were b', ' four silver cups. It w', 'uld either have cleared ou', ' frame as they mi', 'that she would have got on', 'he bowed again.) "Nothing e', 'really wet. And t', 'clapped one anot', ' finished dressing', ' time either they had grown mu', 'w."\n\n"To the convenience of ', 'y were coming to stay', ' arm under her from', 'always open.\n\nEustace Clarence', 'es and the creaking and the over-all ', 'customed to adventures, but, just exactl', ' was very tiny but', 'dals and sea-boots wer', 'ime flows differently from o', 'xercise book which had', 'heir second visit, it was (for the', 'know already, you had better ge', 't real sea, and wind and waves rushing', ' the name of their own priv', 'k. The look of the waves in the ', 's as if it was rea', 'd crimson dragons and v', ' knee to talk to him.\n\nReepicheep put', ", and if you don't know already, y", 't\'s. "But it\'s fa', 'ur head that the', ' one might have e', 'she was no good ', ' the lockers while h', 'to Britain, as some people ', 'istilled water and anyway he insis', 'ut in reality. Th', 'on like this, would ei', 'ta-ow!"\n\nThe other tw', 'enly ended as the water ', "hether it doesn't mak", 'f as much at home as if she had bee', 'hoes off, as everyone ought ', 'days at their Aunt\'s. "But it\'s', ', turning to Eu', ' everyone ought', 'd Susan had all been Kings an', '-thingummy is," said Edmund. "He\'s only', 'e a bedroom with that record stinker,', ' mast and one large, s', 'three sides of the table, the ', 'y were stealing a ', 'anels (all birds and beasts and', 'y liked. Aunt Al', 'tion of honour must g', 'des and the creaking and the over-al', ' has a right to', 'ked her shoes off, as every', 'lled water and anyway he insisted o', ' loved teasing them about it.', 'd the ship without being', 'tail. Its balance,', 'nce was lacking to this', 'om the deck. Then, as one mi', ' he asked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake ', ' to Narnia. And a promise, or ve', 'ing with open mouths.\n\nWhat ', ' standing on the fram', 'to understand," said R', 'thing like this:', 'dmund both sneezed.\n\n"What a', ' a queen in Narnia', 'se the ship looks as if ', 'tace. "I hate mice. And I never', 'derstand," said Reepic', ' Lucy tried not', 's and cuddle him. But this', 'Caspian, the boy king of N', ' week here, you might f', 'd could it be made with dis', '"Father" and "Mother", but Harold', ' underclothes. In their house ther', 't once-Reepicheep, th', 'e."\n\nThe story begins', ' slipped an arm under her from the ot', 'e bed flapped, rose and sailed t', 'id not approve of that.\n\n"Y', 'aw was blue waves fle', "l, and if you don't know alrea", 'ged, as she had always don', ' was perfect, and its manners', 'its head under one ear and over', 'eing put ashore at the next sta', 'ig but she did not min', 'ask him what an assy-', 'nd said in his shrill, pip', 'ritain, as some pe', ' itself that they would ', 'e?" said Eustace Clarence, who ha', 'd have offended h', 'steady roar of air and wat', 's as if it was really wet. And the wave', "u won't see it if you ste", 'y might to a rock. He lost his head an', ' his right, bowed, kissed her ha', "t your Majesties' pr", ' panic and down they bo', 'e?" he asked.\n\n"For Heaven\'s sake do', ' had had wonderful a', 'iny smell, which really con', ' Narnia. And a promise, or very nearly a', ' time. Eustace ru', 'mund and Lucy. But he ', 'Harold and Alberta. They were v', "as if she had been in Caspian's ca", ' they would some d', ' back room upstairs)', 'ten thing," cried Eus', ' run up to the top of one glorious ', 'y some years old', 'ord very nearly as long as its tail. I', 'ad when he heard that Edmund and Luc', 'tures of grain elevators or of fa', 'it."\n\n"Let you go?" said', 'her the pretty one of the family and s', 'breathless from the smack of it, be', ' ear and over the other and in this was ', '\n"For Heaven\'s sake don', 'and said in his s', 'ed it. His parents called ', 'approve of that.\n\n"You\'re n', 'pt them off their feet, and drew them d', 'is friends spoke to him, for he had n', 'than any boy of his age has a right to ', ' or the picture ', "I'll give you up my cabin of course, L", 'a windy day; but the wind was blow', 'nd then, if you went back to Narnia a', ', as she well kn', 'es being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll ', 'you. Her prow was gilded and shap', 'ue, swirling water astern, the low cus', 'e wind came the noises-', 'ay nothing and pe', 'Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a ', 'the prow of the s', 'ite figure diving off the sh', ' "whether it doesn\'t make thi', 'ind him, and Lucy', 'he very same hour of ', ' was blue waves f', 'ur Pevensies, P', 'and four silver cups. It w', 't summer term. It is true that she w', 'to the top of one glorious blue wave, an', 'et it into your head that the le', 'ging. The cabin was very tiny but br', 'ous venture."\n\n"Ugh, take it away," ', 'formation and had pictures of ', 'real and clean and out-of-door for t', 'eing thrown. Edmund an', 'ier--"\n\n\n"Well, Na', 'h the Pevensies, he had managed to hear', 'ly sick.\n\n"Hey! Rynelf," said C', ' a flagon and four silver cups. It was ', "ng. It didn't look at", 'arnian years had passed,', ' lost his head and clutched at the other', ' up went a great', 'balance, as it pace', ' pleasure she could never h', 'he saw a white figure d', 'd advanced people. They were vegeta', 'ed a door on the starboard side', ' herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspian!" gasped ', 'inally stood, dripping and', 'became visible for the first time, ', ' trip to America th', 'in.) "Nothing except your Majesti', 'oaching them. You might ', 'he motion of the ship did not worry her', ' could manage. His shoes, sa', 'f it was really', ' give you up my cabin of course, Lucy, b', 'gay wind, listing over a lit', "r against the ship's sides and th", 'if they were dead and pinned on a card', ' people say he will.', 'ke it very much."\n\n"It\'s a rotten pictu', 'ce, squeaky with fright ', 'tarboard side, and said, "This\'ll be ', 'rotten picture," said Eustace.\n\n"', 'she could never have: ', 'ight find that a thousand Narnia', 'ike it at all (that was why it was pu', 'and was sick again an', 'he heard that Edmund and Lucy were comi', 'eeling a little surprised. Somet', ' respect. Their secret country was real', 'new, was a pleasure she cou', 'mier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia', 'RE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was a boy cal', 'y again and asked if ', " it really couldn't b", 'thing like this:\n\n"Some kids wh', 'gether above the bulwarks, rop', ' the chance.\n\nThey were in Luc', ' the back with great del', 'owly approaching them. You migh', 't was put away in a littl', 'ot their balance a great blu', 'that side, and the water on th', 'nked her stars that she had worked hard ', "s a merry shipmate you've brought ", 's thought her the pretty one of t', 'mund and Lucy their Majesties becau', 't her and her bows went up again. ', 't record stinker, Eustace."\n\n', 'ong; they were waiting till', " silver lamp overhead (Dwarfs' wor", 'th fright and bad temper.', ' last summer term. It is true that she w', 'traightened himse', 'her "Father" and "Mo', 'ace was vaguely familiar,', 'en several thing', 'r a little on her port side. (By the w', 'were green. She had just run up to', 'y," wailed Eustace. "I hate', 'was a windy day; ', 'e name of their own private and ', 'spian to Edmund with a c', 'tealing a few precious', 'o one of the sailors. "Bri', 'ace."\n\nThe stor', 'aspian it was; C', 'd time if you are in your own home', 'd on the hilt of a sword very n', ' more accustomed t', ' it. She was obvio', 'ery hard for an exam and he was t', 'd returned to Narnia', 'd passed round i', ' great delight.\n\n"But wh', 'merick," said Eus', ' visited it twice; n', ' and Edmund sipped ', 'ady," said Reepicheep, "even a ', "ally couldn't be help", ' with his cheerful smile. But Eustace ', 'e ship without being dashed', ' afraid we have no w', ' to cry when nothing wor', ' wall above the door. All this she took', 's not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it," ca', 'ace Clarence and masters called him S', 'towards them. And', 'epicheep, the most vali', ' deep breath. She felt quite s', 'ed, and as Lucy and Edm', ' alone together. And of course they wer', "id we have no women's clothes on board. ", 'h streaks and bubbles on it. She was o', 'he loved teasing ', 'uring which her face got blue and h', ' and Edmund sipped i', 'neezed.\n\n"What a fool I am to keep you', "t it really couldn't be helped", 'ly, but Lucy, who was', 'e sunlight fell on her', 'ew precious minutes al', 's," said Caspian. "Come on bel', 'lance a great blue roller sur', 'ree sides of the table, the swi', 'ction? Because, if n', 'g dashed against its side. Even with all', ' after that dip." He called Edmund an', 'reath. She felt quite', ' A thin band of gold passed round i', ' glorious blue wave, and the', '. And a promise, or ', 'f it, besides being wet', 'off their feet, and drew them down in', 'hard at Eustace. But Caspian ', 'w precious minutes alone togethe', 'et there. Conseq', 've them, and people looking at her fro', ' for the first time, and then d', ' in in a flash, f', 'now, treading w', ' the creaking and the over-a', 'a promise, or very nearly a promi', ', "I like it because th', 'is was stuck a long crimson feather', ' for Caspian immediately', 'hat wave came down towards you, with str', 'nd Lucy their Majesties because they an', 'hools.\n\nEustace Claren', 'n\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" said Caspi', 'left paw rested on the hilt of a', 'e large, square sa', 'e knew lots of answers', ' the water looks as if i', 'ut it was almost as hard to believe wh', 'al things happened at t', 'ow already, you had better g', 'o try to pull it off th', ' they were books of informati', 'n.) "Nothing except your', 'e and they were breat', 'nd going barefoot on board s', 'anger were fastening r', 'ia. And a promise, or very nearly', 'hen you can\'t get there."\n\n"E', ' of a ship-a ship sailing', 'he spoke-"and then leave you to change', '," wailed Eusta', 'ren had returned t', 'Edmund, "because you', "y Plumptree's Vitaminised Nerv", 's and spluttered and spat it out and', 'at one wanted, and as Lucy and Edmund s', 'ere very up-to-date a', 'to their toes. Bu', 'self that they would some day get b', 'he next station.\n\n"This', 'almier--"\n\n\n"Well, Narn', ' neither. He ju', 'but she could manage', 't followed what seemed a very lo', 'her age) and Mother said she ', 'n the other, it was darker blue ', 'very dark, almost', 'hat very moment he looked at the w', 'ld have cost too much ', ' hurriedly, but Lucy, who was very tru', 'of Narnia and he loved teasing them abou', 'pairing cry suddenly ended as', ' him, and Lucy felt all he', 't dip." He called Edmund and Lucy the', " Lucy's room, sitting o", 'thing," cried Eustace; and then severa', ' a boy called Eustace ', 'ten thing," cried E', 'hy do you like it?" said Eust', 'ts left paw rested on the hilt of a sw', 'r best endeavours she had a bru', 'ect was bold and striking.) Its ', 's the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edm', 'd, who knew something about mag', 'ow already, you had better get it i', 's they might to a rock.', 'iting till the moment when she', "he door I'll get them taken to ", 'looked very hard at Eustace. But Casp', 'E PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nTh', ' step outside," said Edmund.\n', 'er get it into your hea', 'pt her mouth shut', ' their balance a great blue roller ', 'adow of the ship.\n\n"', 'ends spoke to him, for he had none', 'ey are only visitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy ', 'eality. They had got there of course b', 'and spluttered and spat it out', 'se Eustace knew lots of answers to t', 'ality the delay was', 'and Alberta. They were ver', 'ountry. Edmund and Lucy were luc', 'e him if his heart sank. He was pro', ' birds and beasts and crimson drag', 'ctly as Eustace ', 'pluttered and spat it out and was si', 'were really going up ', "elow and get changed. I'll give ", 'tallers and wore a special kind of un', "a long crimson feather. (As the Mouse's", 'o King Edmund, too." (Here he ', 'tace. "Something like this:\n\n"So', 'ught they had got their balance a grea', 'deed as if they were going up and d', 'to adventures, but, just exactly ', ' Edmund with a chuckle; but before he', 'ou might find that a thous', 'a fool I am to keep y', 'stace Clarence Scrubb, an', 'rushed to the shi', 'sed round its head ', 'hattering. In reality the del', ' Mother "Father" and ', 'een a wedding present from som', 'he boy king of Narnia whom ', 'er, and her ste', 'aves and saw that th', "ed to the ship's side, as if ", 'w them down int', "idn't say anything. The reason wa", 'Narnia itself that they woul', 'weeks that summer, ', 'ted, and as Lucy and ', 'ng through the do', 'l go away."\n\nMost boys,', 'some years older than herself.\n\n"Ca-C', 'ustace Clarence ', ' were luckier than o', 't gradually balmier ', 'ou might find that a thousand Narni', 'Edmund both sneezed.\n\n"What a fool I', 'ked books if they were books of i', ' schools.\n\nEustace Cl', 'bright with painted pane', 'l holiday for ten years. Peter was wo', 'might find that a thousa', 'd looking at a pict', "room upstairs), but she couldn't get ", 'ed. Something very curious in', 'st its side. Even wi', 'or an exam and ', ' a ship (and then only as far as the Isl', ' a thousand Narni', 'y would some day get ', ' had breath enough. For Caspian i', 'saw a white figure diving of', 's. She even kept her mouth shut and h', 'erself.\n\n"Ca-Ca', "d been in Caspian's cabin for ", ' two are playing. Stop ', '\n\n"Why do you like it?" said E', 'und and Lucy did not', 'king to this glorious v', ' colours were too real and c', '"even a question of honour must give w', 'ging to be asked. Say nothin', ', salt splash had broken right out', 'y trick you two are playing. Stop i', 'book which had been lying beside Ed', 'saw it happening. ', 'hrough the air to the wall b', 'le on her port side. (B', ' not--"\n\nAt this moment Lucy an', 'm. There was a second of struggling an', 'now, treading water, and had', 'ay, if you are goin', 'ed him too. All three sho', 'break to the horizon. Perhaps we can har', 'nd I say the sooner the better.\n\nRynel', 'another on the back', 'to believe when y', 'wn-ups thought her t', 'u never know till you get there. C', 'oice:\n\n"My humble duty to ', " balmier don't rh", 'n an afternoon when Edmund ', 'open mouths.\n\nWhat they were seeing ', 'ay of getting to Narnia. And a', 'real sea, and wind and waves rus', 'r on the back with ', 'hip, heads crowding together above the', 'ldren had had wonde', 'pare. It would have cost t', 't her swimming ', ' the ship looks as if it ', 'o had jumped up beside him. ', "sties. You'll need something to war", 'ont of him was not glass but real sea,', ' give people a bad', ' deck became vi', 'id Lucy, "I like it becaus', 'nd also that the water', ' paler blue sky, both', 'o hear them all t', 'r since the old days and ', 'timental."\n\n"Am', 'l three shook hands and', ' Say nothing an', 'ead the way, Reepi', 'adventures, but, just exactly as Eusta', '"Am I to underst', " a puny little person who couldn't h", 'ently began talk', 'he water got into his ', ' summer term. It is tr', "ucy, but I'm afraid ", "inst the ship's sides and th", 'was rummaging in one of the lo', 'ant to come and stay with Uncle Harol', 'e it was only a picture. Still, she ', 'way," wailed Eustace. ', ' ship looks as if it was really', 'ediately opened a door on the ', 'om the smack of it, besides being wet ', ' air and water. But it was the smell,', 'f, twirled his whiskers, and said', 'ing water astern, the low cushioned be', 'ing," said Lucy.', 's it is only an imagi', 'ngs in the picture were moving. It did', 'ed panels (all bir', 'that.\n\n"You\'re not wanted', ' came down towards y', 't wanted here," said ', 'g Eustace. Then som', 'ifferently from ours. If ', 'm in Narnia itself that', 'he Pevensies, he had managed ', 'smell, the wild, briny smell, wh', 'er know till you get there.', 'g put ashore at the next station.\n\n"Th', 'ship when you are looking ahe', ' at once-Reepicheep, the most vali', 'nsisted on being put ashore at the next ', 'all been Kings and ', 'hat summer, and M', 'er if she had used a slower str', 'e the old days and', 'ith open mouths.\n\nWhat they w', 'chance.\n\nThey were in L', ' this, would either have cleared o', 'd returned to Narnia l', 'e saw a white f', 'd Peter and Susan had a', 't because it had been ', 'HE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM\n\nThere wa', ' a sword very nearly as long a', ', as if he expected to see the pictu', 'Clarence disliked his cousins the fou', 'ming in a flagon and four s', 'll want to come and sta', 'ept her mouth shu', ' on the beds and th', ' neither. He ju', 'ast have a room of your own and I', ' Eustace did ne', 's happened to him, and would only', 'ry when nothing', 'lking of Narnia and he l', 'd days and was living in ', 'ey were vegetarians, non-smoke', 'k, almost black, the ', 'ut real sea, and wind and wav', " I can't tell you how his friends ", 'oice:\n\n"My humble duty to y', ', slipped an arm ', ' must give way-a', 'rs.\n\nEdmund and Lucy did n', ' dressing she looked out', 'Instead, she went down on ', 'astening ropes round her. After that fo', 'a golden-headed boy some years older ', 'll been in that house he would h', 'ft. And then, if you went', 'y her, for in the old days when she had ', 'vate and secret ', ' great deal colder than it had looke', 'a lady," said Reepicheep, "even a ', 'ey liked. Aunt Alber', 'ian almost at once, turning to', "'s despairing c", 'ng stare at Eustace, "that t', 's some people say he will. And I s', 'igh above them, and peopl', 'se this time for fe', 'hich was the name of their own pr', ' the door and now came grinn', 'years in Narnia, you would still come ', 'as blue waves flecked with ', 'orious blue wave, and the nearer slope ', 'k of a limerick," said Eustace. "Someth', 'er face got blue and her te', 'ing high above them, and people looking', ' on the back with great delight.', ' assonance," said', 'was (for the Narnians) as i', 'totallers and wore a special kind of', 'ce burst out again.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! ', ', but she could manage. His shoe', 'l need something', 'thingummy is," said Edmund. "He\'s o', 'and balmier--"\n', ' and very few clot', 'been Kings and Que', 'rabbed at him from the other side ', 'The reason was that a great cold, sa', 'ic and down they both went.\n\nWhen t', ' and in this was stuck a long crimso', 'ck. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" sai', 'm to spare. It would have cost ', 'ucy as soon as s', 'hind him, and Lucy f', "'ll be your room, Lucy. I'll just get s", 'ut she did not mind go', 'hink of a limerick," said Eustace. "S', ' big for her, but she coul', 'riedly, but Lucy, who was', 'ince the old days and was living in a ', 's, and the motion of the ship did n', 'ey were dead and pinned on a card', "sters called him Scrubb. I can't te", 'hip."\n\n"Still playing your old game?" s', "hange. If you'll fling your", 'ol work (though otherwise ', 'd dressing she looked out of ', 'o falls into deep water in their clothes', 'n they both went.\n\nWhen they came up ', ' been a wedding present fr', 'rica, and Susan had gone. G', 'o see the picture fr', 'came to meet her and her bows went up ', 'they are only visito', ' other side. There was ', ' into your head t', "bb. I can't tell you how hi", 'd had caught the arms of the howl', 'e ship-what you coul', ' longed, as she had ', " Narnian ship when you can't get ther", 'nd, though he was a puny little person ', 've stood up even to Lucy, let alon', 'san had all been Kings and Queens of N', ' rich purple. The side', 'down. He had only once been', 'd-were green. She ', ', and had caught the ar', 'and," said Reepicheep to Luc', ' will. And I say the sooner the bet', ', though he was a puny little perso', 'r shoes off, as ', 'Because, if not-', 'ne ear and over the other a', 'ied another look. And then all three chi', 'lockers while he spok', 'get some dry things for myself"-he was r', 'a great cold, salt splash had ', 'eir best endeavours she h', 'dmund, too." (Here h', 'g through the door into the stern cab', 'ything more Eustace bu', 'fore he could say anythin', 'er. But it was the sm', 'Eustace, "that this singula', 'or very nearly a promise, had been made ', ' Eustace. Then someo', 'r and Susan had al', ' Their secret country was real. They', "'ll at least have a room", "n's clothes were too big for her, ", 'ry when nothing w', ' a good fellow."\n\n"To th', 'ace as it does on a windy day. And', 'try. Most of us, I suppose, have a sec', 'It was just what ', 'p to the frame as ', ' in Narnia itself that they would s', ' and bubbles on it. She was obviously ', 'twice; not in a game or a dre', 'he summer holid', 'ell out, "Let me go. Let ', 'ot to be a fool. Lucy ', ' too real and cle', '" said Reepicheep to Lucy after a l', 'Consequently, when the Pevensie ', ' the water looks as if it was ', 'al, when they got the chance', 'some dry things for myself"-he was ru', 'ren had returned', 'ose and sailed through the', 'f, he did not approve of that.\n\n"Y', "is a merry shipmate you've brought us, B", ' have to share a bedroom with that rec', 'rriedly, but Lucy, who ', 'e expected, Eustace clutched at her in a', ' believe when you', ' from the smack of it, b', 'Its balance, as it paced gravely alo', 'pter I\n\nTHE PICT', 'ew that there are dozens of ways to', 'than any boy of his age has a ', 'f you are going to read this st', 't blue roller surged up round t', "forming animals. They're silly and ", 'l that," said Edmund hurri', 'anage. His shoes, sandals and sea-b', " you'll at least have ", 'ther "Father" and "Mother", ', 'ying deck, was perfec', 'ged to hear them all talking of ', 'ace was crying much harder than any boy', 'l get them taken to the g', ' a secret country but for most of us it ', "a glimpse of Lucy's", ' close beside her now, treading wat', ' striking.) Its left paw rested o', ' and down. He had on', 'the first time, and then', ' her stars that she had worked ', 'gay wind, listing ', ' wind and waves rushing up to the frame', ' crowding together a', 'r.\n\nRynelf returned with the spiced', 'teaming in a flagon and fo', 'e roller surged ', 'ory in the second ', 'n made them in Narnia i', 'ality. They had got there of co', ', dripping and shivering, on the deck. ', 'd her shoes off, ', 'low."\n\n"To the conveni', 'ly running fast before a ', ' and was sick again and bega', 'of the ship-what you', 'ep, like a good ', ' blue sky, both spreading ', ' Lucy longed, as she had always done, ', ' his shrill, piping voice:\n\n"My humble ', 'nimals, especially beetles, if t', '. His parents called him Eustac', 'ppened at the sa', '. I like it very much."\n\n"It\'', 'Eustace clutched at her in a panic and d', 'three all to America, and S', 'ard to believe when yo', 'was a windy day; but the wind was blo', 'make anything up himself, he did no', 'sty. And to King Edmund, too." (Here he', 'reading water, ', "he had been in Caspian's cabin for w", 'st at once, turning to Eustace with his ', 'bin. She fell in l', 'ummer term. It i', 'up to the frame as they', 'ndying glory in the', 'ack room upstai', 't a break to the horizon. Perhaps w', ' time at all. You never', ' only one bedroom ', "t me go back. I don't lik", ' cleared out or flared ', 'r slope of that wave came', 'as-a Mouse. But then it was a Mou', 'they had grown much smal', 'e water rushing past and', 'o be dried."\n\nLucy found herself as m', 'll that," said Edm', 'urse Eustace knew lots ', ' when she had been a queen in Nar', 'e could never have: it would hav', 's real. They had already visited it tw', 'board side, and said, "Th', 'ea-boots were hopelessly b', 'must give way-at lea', 'ave to share a bedroom wit', 'and I shall have to shar', 'nd stood about two fe', 'arians, non-smokers an', 't it a good deal, when ', 'one of the sailors. "Bring spiced win', 'm the shadow of the ship.\n\n"The que', ' as if they were reall', '"\n\nOf course Eustace k', 'ustace Clarence disliked his cous', 'berta. They were very u', ' into the wave and up went a great shock', 'were too real and clea', 'o time at all. You never know til', 'uld manage. His', 'tors or of fat f', 'hey had got there', ' went down on one knee to talk t', ' at him from the other side ', ' to our world at the', 'et high. A thin band of gold passed roun', ' which was a rich purple. Th', ' limerick," said Eustace. "Something l', 'better than nothing,"', 'od deal of voyaging. The cab', ' that side was full of gre', 'th fright and bad', 'teasing them about it. He ', 'their Aunt\'s. "But it\'s far worse fo', 'ently, when the Pevensie ', ', the effect was bold and st', ' was working very hard for an exam ', 'ace with his cheerful smile. ', ' him. But this, as she well knew, was', 'ged up round them, swept the', "n't know already, you had better ", ' hard for an exam and he was to', ' too stupid to make anything', 'nder one ear and over', 'mokers and teetotallers', 'eep put forward ', 'offended him deeply', 'rather green and tried another loo', 'se, had been made them i', 'ow!"\n\nThe other two were much more ', ' singularly discourteous', 'pened at the same', ' visitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy di', 'g; and, though he was a pun', 're waiting till the moment whe', ' ended as the water got in', 'pe of that wave came down towards', 'hip-what you co', 'aking it all up; and as he was far too ', 'an hardly blame him if his heart', 's and the windows were always open.\n', 've had them all to stay. But', 'dows that looked out o', ' really moving. And the wa', 'el schools.\n\nEustace Clarenc', 'ain. At the same moment an exe', 'rnia itself that they ', ' their house there was very ', 'the ship looks as if it wa', 'together. And of', 'er and her bows went up again. At th', 't year, when he had been st', 't leg, drew back his right, bowed, ki', ' ship; she saw its ', 'hildren doing exercises in model s', 'k of a limerick,"', 'han the youngste', 's only an imaginary co', ' were too big for her, but she could ', 'a good deal, when th', ' always open.\n\nEustace', ' looking ahead, is port, and the right ', 'ut it. He thought of course ', 'all. You never know till you get there.', 'r people in that respect. T', 'e frame hanging above the sea, and p', ' it. He thought', 'specially beetles, if they were dead', ' went.\n\nWhen they came up again she ', 's starboard.) All the sunligh', 'nd Lucy were luckier tha', 'y," wailed Eustace. "I hate', ' for me," said Edmund, "because you', 'er than herself.\n\n"Ca', 'nd perhaps a gli', 'Edmund, who knew something abou', 'own-ups thought her the pr', 'r arms and cuddle him. But thi', 'o him.\n\nReepicheep put forward his le', 'rst out again.\n\n"Oh! Ugh! What o', 'Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for one ', ' glory in the second Battle', ' In reality the delay was not very lo', 'ad this story at all', 'very Narnian ship."\n\n"Still pl', 'ot approve of that', 'aves rushing up to the fra', 'f it, besides being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll', 'r and anyway he in', ' and perhaps a glimpse of Lucy', 'onging to be asked. Say ', 'ied Eustace; and then sever', ' said Eustace. "Something l', 'n nothing worse than', 'cious minutes alone togethe', 'hem, and people looking at he', 'and was living in a sm', 'America, and Susan had gone. Grown-u', 'ven a question of hon', 'and cuddle him.', "s is a merry shipmate you've brought u", '\nLucy found herself a', 'o good at school wo', 'y were making it ', "this, but he didn't say anything. Th", 'visitors.\n\nEdmund and Lucy did not a', 'out of her window at the water rushi', 'had pictures of grain el', 'youngsters". Edmund and', ' always done, to take Reepicheep up in', 'ying with the Pevensie', 'she kept her head', 'ike it very much."\n\n"I', 'mund and Lucy the', 'd tried another look. And then all three', "e's fur was very dark, ", 'll of greens and purp', 'aid Eustace.\n\n"You won\'', ' pictures of grain elevators or', 'd it. His paren', 'her three all to America, and Susan h', 'eing may be hard to believe when ', 'e reason was that a great ', 'nlight fell on her ', 'he spiced wine steaming in a flagon a', 'st as they thought they had got', 'hey had got ther', '. She even kept her mouth shut and her e', 'during which her face got blue and her t', 'ng ropes round her. After tha', 'port side. (By the', 'd water and anyway he insi', 'youngsters". Edmund and ', 'ving to spend the summer ho', 'was to spend the holidays be', 'ntry but for most of us it is ', "ldn't be helped. Father had g", 'out on the blue, swi', 'ter looks as if it was really wet. A', 'under one ear and over t', "his story at all, and if you don't know", 'hought they had got their', 'y were talking about Narn', 'me up again she s', 'bbed at him from the ot', 'd came the noises', ' about Narnia, which was the name of the', 'ung about grinning, and ', 'efore his time. Narnian time f', 'st give way-at least for the mom', "es. You'll need somet", 'ly beetles, if the', 'f a sword very nearly as long as ', 'in of course, Lucy, but ', 'all their best endeavour', 'on on the forward wall ab', 'ame grinning into the ro', 'pes round her. After t', 'ners courtly. Lucy and Edmund rec', 'at once, turning to Eustace with', 'th going right down to their toes', 'to Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a fight, ', ' black, the effect was bold and', ' the ship into the wave and up went a gr', 'wn private and secret country. Most of u', 'most valiant of all the Talkin', 'he had been staying wit', 'ong stare at Eustace', ' stupid to make anything up him', 't and all that," said Edmund hurr', 'away," wailed E', 'cy felt all her hai', 'er than any boy of his age has a right ', '"It\'s an assonance', 'arge, square sail which was a rich purp', 'k of the waves in the picture made him f', "ad (Dwarfs' wor", 'ter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But h', 'knew lots of answers to this, but', 'one else, whose face', 'table, the swinging silver lam', ' knee to talk to him.\n\nReepicheep put fo', 't time for their second visit, it ', 'o. The reason was that a great cold', ' story begins on an aft', 'On the other, it was darker b', 'purples. On the other, it was', 'y did not at all want to', 'e, the swinging silver l', 'feel the warmth go', 'ugh the door into the stern ', ' when he had been stayi', 'o. All three shook hands and clappe', 'where?"\n\nEustace r', 'said Caspian almost at once,', 'reaks and bubbles on it. Sh', 'gay wind, listing over a little ', '. He lost his head an', "'ll fling your wet things outs", 'inted panels (all birds and beas', 't that very moment he ', ', on the deck. After her Edmund was he', 'that a thousand ', 'p." He called Edmund and Lucy their Maje', 'assing through th', 'ike it because t', '\nOf course Eustac', 'mokers and teetotallers and wore a sp', 'he "would get far more out of', "'t say anything. The", 'igh. A thin band of gold pas', 't into your head th', 'hat they were seeing may be hard', 'wall and found himself sta', 'ear the ship; she saw it', 'an afternoon when Edmund and L', "ean. Caspian's clot", 'nd vulgar and-and sent', 'self that they would some day g', 'she was not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it," cam', 'er arms and cuddle him. ', 's of the table, the swinging silve', 'visit. Immediately Edmund recognis', '."\n\n"It\'s a rott', 'ow already, you had bet', 'oom to spare. It would have cost too m', 's that a great cold, s', 't Art and all that," sa', 'g through the door into t', 'her now, treading wa', ' jumped up beside', 'd they were breathless from the sm', ', and Lucy felt all her hair ', 'd, briny smell, ', 'und both sneezed.\n\n"What a fool I am ', 'd wonderful adventures long ago ', 'us minutes alone to', 'on a windy day. And this was ', '\n\nMost boys, on meetin', 'sonance," said Eus', 'e dried."\n\nLucy found herself as mu', 'gin with," said Lucy.\n\n"It\'s an as', 'oliday for ten years. Peter was working ', 'not mind going b', 'felt quite sure t', 'whose face was vaguely familiar, slipped', 'till quite near the ship; she s', 'd got there of course b', " the ship's side. Edmund was", 'Ca-Caspian!" gasped Lucy a', 'went a great shock of spr', 'her three all to America, and Sus', 'd at her in a panic and down they both', "hings outside the door I'll get", ' Narnian time flows diff', 'e next station.\n', 'been horribly s', 'ows that looked o', 'ian hustled them on and i', 'ummaging in one of the lock', 'hich is the only way of getting t', 'ups thought her the pretty o', ' But Eustace was ', 'the same time. Eustace rushed towards', 've with it at once-the three squa', ' There was a lot of shouting going on f', ' deep down inside him he liked', "d. You'll have to make do", 'resently began talking again.\n\n"', 'sly running fast before a gay wind, lis', 'had been a wedding present from som', 'spian. "But where?"\n\nEustace rushed', 's that looked out', 'd had come out of the cabin in the poop', 'ment he looked at the waves and saw t', "get changed. I'll give y", 'the water got into his ', " If you'll fling", 'let him get started about Art and al', 's lacking to this glorious venture."', 'uggling and shouting, and ju', 'ucy were coming to stay. F', ', is port, and the right is starboard', 'And suddenly with the wind came the noi', 'oor. All this she took in in a f', 'rt sank. He was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! Ry', 'd Lucy. "And she is such a very Narnia', 'oliday for ten years. Peter was workin', ' of underclothes. In their house th', 't was the only picture i', 't to grudge Susan her luck, but', 'all above the door. All this ', "pstairs), but she couldn't get", 'quare windows that look', 'is whiskers, and said in his shri', '. Edmund was close beside he', 'tched at her in a panic and do', 'bedroom with that record stinke', 'k to Narnia after spending a week here,', 'r head and kicked her shoes off, as ever', ' Nerve Food and could it be made with d', 'usan had all been Kings and Queens of', 'l been in that hous', 'paw rested on the hilt of a sword very n', " If you'll flin", 'th some of mine. Lead the way, Reepich', ' her head and kicked her sho', 'rn cabin. She fell i', 'ucy as soon as ', ' keep you all standing here in y', 'ied."\n\nLucy found herself as ', 'g them about it. H', 'en to Lucy, let a', 'd boy some years older than ', 'hing like this:\n\n"', 'dmund hurriedly, but Lucy, who was ve', "couldn't get rid of it ", 'y, or no time at all. You never know til', ' Their secret country was real. ', 'sea, and wind and', 'eath. She felt qu', 'ad done a good deal of voyagi', 'e warmth going right down', 'ing water, and had caught the', 'y were luckier than other people i', 'ple say he will. And I say th', 'pray. And then up w', 'u all standing here in y', '\'t get there."\n\n"Even looking i', 'alled him Eustace Clarence and masters', "'s protection? Becaus", ' that there are dozens of ways to give ', 'gon ended-were gre', 'd to him, and would on', 'ruggling and shouting, an', 'ner the better.\n\nRynelf returne', 's. "But it\'s far wor', 'k to Narnia after spending a week h', ' bed and looking at a pict', 'd gravely along the ', ' us, I suppose, have a sec', 'her now, treading water, and had c', 'elt a great deal colde', 'and then disappeared as the', ' Lion on the forward wall above', ' began talking again.\n\n"Do you like that', 'nd wore a special kind of underclothe', 'lers and wore a special kind', ' it be made with distilled wa', "whether it doesn't make things worse,", "ur room, Lucy. I'll just get s", 'cy, let alone Edmund, in a f', 'like the head of a dr', 'ide the door and now came grinni', ' Lucy were stealin', 'y get back. You may', ' all up; and as he was far too st', 'swept them off their feet,', 'p water in their clothes. She even kep', 'with foam, and pale', 'me, to begin with," said Lucy.\n\n"I', 'o cry when nothing worse t', "xcept your Majesties'", 'nswers to this, but', 'e made faces and ', 'erself as much at hom', 'as they might to ', ' Narnia, you would st', 'dred years in Narnia, y', 'd down. He had only once b', 'y discourteous person is ', 'ou how his friends spoke to him, for he ', 'nearly straight towards you. ', 've had them all to stay. But he had ', 'th began chattering. In reality', 'aid Eustace Clarence, who had b', 'water got into his mouth.\n\nLu', 'l came the strange', 'nd I never could bear performin', ' pictures of grain elev', 'just run up to the top of one g', 'ot on board the s', 'hat! Take it away, the horrid thing."\n\n', 'school work (though ot', "n who couldn't have stood", 'ome day get back. You may im', 'd Edmund curtly.\n\n"', "en's sake don't le", 'lessly big but she di', 'ghtened himself, twirled his whiskers, a', ' the creaking and the over-al', 'tion? Because, if ', 'stace. Last of all came the stranger-a g', 'is heart sank. He w', 'e sunlight fell on her from ', '-at least for the moment--" and here h', 'd said, "This\'ll be your roo', 'flat gold image of As', 'cheep, the most valiant of all the Tal', 'ng ago in the war years. If he h', '-a Mouse. But then it was a Mous', 'as only a picture. Stil', 'or only a day, or no ti', ' they both went.\n\nWhen they came u', 'r a dream, but in reality. The', 'er and Susan had', 'r now, treading water, an', 'ly. Lucy and Edmund r', ' and was dragged forward. ', ':\n\n"My humble duty to', 'was dragged forwa', 'much better if she had used a slower ', 'sandals and sea-boots were hopeless', ' had won undying glory in the se', ' Arthur came back to Br', 'his she took in in a flash, for Cas', 'r him, warning him to look out and not t', 't Harold and Alberta. They we', 'you left. And then, if you went back to', 'ed what seemed a v', 't let him get started ', "' presence was lacking to this glorious", 't have expected, Eustace clutc', 'illy trick you two are playing. Stop', 'te delicacy) and the f', 'Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to thin', 'ng of Narnia and he loved teasing', 'he looked very hard at ', 'ns of Narnia long before ', 'easts of Narnia and the Chief Mouse. It', 'hed at her in a panic and ', 't it a good deal, when they got ', 'and secret country. Most of us, I suppos', 'if you step outsi', ' in your wet thi', ' Because, if not--"\n\nAt this ', 'ed out of her window at the w', 'lf"-he was rumma', 'rom that side, and the water on', 'r the ship; she s', 'starboard side, and said, ', ' Narnia, you would still come', ' sides of the table, the swinging si', 'g a reception like this, would either ', 'to stay. For deep down inside h', 'nd took in long deep breath. She f', 't like it."\n\n"Let you ', 'cture. Edmund, who knew something about ', 'd used a slower st', " can't tell you how his friends spoke ", 's only longing to be asked. Say nothing ', 'mund sipped it they could feel t', 'n a panic and down they b', ' thing."\n\nHe really had ', ' turned rather green and tried anoth', 'rms of the howling Eustace. Then', ' they talked about it ', 'ck of spray. And then ', 'The look of the wave', 'ad still been in that house ', 'on board ship. When she ha', ' pictures of grain elevators or of fa', 'gic, which is the only way of getti', 'lberta. They wer', 'ow cushioned benches round', ' for in the old days when she had b', "ps a glimpse of Lucy's bedroom. What", 'e sooner the better.\n\nRyne', 'silver cups. It was just what one wante', 'at record stinker, Eus', ' a reception like thi', ' and bullying; and, though he was ', ' stinker, Eustace."\n\nThe story begins o', 'ed with the spiced wi', 'ble, the swingi', ' flat gold image of ', 'ly straight towards you. Her prow ', 'had won undying glory in the seco', 'earer slope of that wave c', 'er look. And then all', 'balmier and balmi', '\nGot gradually balmie', 'still come back ', ' had been lying beside Edmund', 'lorious venture."\n\n"U', 'aging in one of the', 'arly a promise, had been made them in Na', ' to one of the sailors. "Bring spic', ' Lucy, who was very truthful,', 'and shaped like the head of a', 'er and Susan had all been ', 'imagine that they talked about ', ' at home as if she had been in Caspi', " You'll need something to warm you ", 'ship.\n\n"The question is," said Edmund', ' top of one glorious blu', 'herself as much at home as if she had ', 'y visitors.\n\nEdmund an', 'ery dark, almost black, the effect was ', 'ing on the frame; in front ', 'a fool I am to keep', 'was very little furniture and very f', '. Edmund was close bes', "For Heaven's sake ", 'long; they were waiting till the mo', 'Magic, which is the only ', ' wedding present from someone she', 'their clothes. She even kept her mout', 'r. Eustace jumped to try to pull', 'ed wings of the dragon ended-were gre', 'ce and masters called him Scrubb. I ', 'hat seemed a very long delay dur', 'ere," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m tryi', 'the blue, swirling water as', 'es-the swishing ', 'nd up went a great shock of spray. A', 'a good deal of voyagi', 'ing beside Edmund ', 'the delay was not very long; they ', "), but she couldn't get", 'kissed her hand, straightened ', ' making it all up; and as he wa', 'ck. After her Edmund wa', 'mund, "whether it doesn\'t', 'dge Susan her luck, but it was dreadfu', 'ery tiny but bright with painted ', 's, if they were dead and pinned on', 'hin band of gold passed round its ', 'ys to give people a ', 'dmund both sneezed.\n\n"What a fool I', "be your room, Lucy. I'll just ", ' listening outside the door and now came', 'days and was living in a small c', 'ou may imagine that t', '. There was a lot of', ' won undying glory in the second Batt', 'et country but for', 'in.) "Nothing except your Majesties\' p', ', and he almost deserve', ', slipped an arm under her from the o', '--"\n\n\n"Well, Narnia and balmier d', 'r term. It is tr', "ou'll fling your wet things outs", ' briny smell, which ', "a. Eustace's despairing cry sudde", 'ooking at a picture on the opposite wal', ' his head and clutched', 'ng to Narnia. And a promise, ', 'p. Eustace did neither. He just hung', "rforming animals. They're si", 'played games about', 'out, "Let me go. Let me go back. I d', 'it because it had been a wedding prese', ' And I never coul', 'as sick again and began ', 't on board the ship with', 'course they were talking about Narnia, ', 'and clean and out-of-door f', 'streaks and bubbles on it. She was ', 'expected to see the pictur', 'ning fast before a gay wind, ', 'ly an imaginary country. Edmund and Lu', 'dmund hurriedly, but Lucy, who was very', ' real and clean ', " white figure diving off the ship's ", "person who couldn'", 'he head of a dragon with wide open mou', 'f it was really', ' on the throne duri', 'ast summer term. I', ' their last visit. Immediately Edmund', 'have had them all to stay. But he ', 'es in the picture made him feel sick', ', when he had been', 'appened at the same time. Eustace rushed', 'im.\n\nReepicheep put forward his le', 'id Lucy.\n\n"It\'s an', ' said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying to thi', 'hard for an exam a', ' have had them all to stay. But he had ', 'y once been in a s', 'd to believe when you read ', 'ng exercises in mode', 'ed Caspian to Edmun', 'site delicacy) ', 'e too real and clean and out-of', 'Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, f', 'd Narnian years had passed, or only a ', 'uttered and spat it o', ' days and was livi', 'ery long; they were waiting til', ' Edmund, in a figh', ' like this, would eit', 'e, to take Reepicheep ', 't is true that she w', ' excuse this ti', 'an afternoon when Edmund and Lucy were ', 'r worse for me," said Edmund, ', 'r worse for me,"', 'g and shivering, on the deck', 'idays being coached by old Profe', 'ened at the same time. Eustace', 'y, both spreading wi', 'ed games about Narnia\nGot gradually balm', 'is time either they had g', ' your Majesty. And to King Edmu', 't of us, I suppose, have a secret countr', 'ery hard at Eustace. But Caspian hu', 'ere staring with open mout', 'ng. And the water looks as if', 'aspian it was; Caspian, the bo', 'ot at all want to com', 'hought of course that they were ', 'for ten years. Peter w', 'ke this, would either', 'days when she had been a quee', 'like it."\n\n"Let you go?" said Caspian. ', ', as she well knew, was a pleasure sh', 'oth went.\n\nWhen they came up again s', 'at seemed a ver', ' said Edmund, "because you\'ll at l', 'berta. They were ', 'sides being wet through.\n\n"I\'ll smash', 'ustace to Lucy.\n\n', 'oom. Last year, when he', 'heir Majesties beca', 'e cost too much money to take the ', 'that looked out on the b', "two are playing. Stop it. I'll ", 'd gone. Grown-ups thought he', 'l you get there. Consequently, when the ', 'hey were vegetar', "pian's clothes were too big for", 'Caspian!" gasped Lucy as soon as ', 'w came grinning i', 'a fool. Lucy grabbed at him from th', 'evensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.', ' of water again', 'him too. All three shook', 'n\'t get there."\n\n"Even looking ', 'g into the room. Last year, when h', ' Narnia\nGot gradually balmier and bal', ' of his age has', 'll just get some dry thin', "s a puny little person who couldn't ", 'd. Father had got a', 'hen, as one might have expected, Eust', 'lking again.\n\n"Do y', "an. Caspian's clo", 'ich was a rich purple. The', 'd bullying; and, though he ', 'ant to offend.\n\nIt was a picture of a s', 'y did not at all wan', 'rd side, and said, "This\'ll be your ro', 'nd pinned on a card. He liked books ', 'for Caspian immediately opene', "e didn't call his Father and Mother", 'magine that they talked about it a goo', 'if he expected to s', 'r above the bulwarks, rop', 'been listening out', ' Then, as one might', 'he almost deserved ', 'd not mind going b', 'Uncle Harold and', ' Mother "Father" an', 'd already said, "Y', "ith him because she hadn't ha", 'tly sick.\n\n"Hey', ' and drew them down into the se', 'little on her po', 's, but, just exactly as Eustace Clarenc', 'e very same hour of', ' ship; she saw its green sid', 'nding here in your wet th', 'ter I\n\nTHE PICTURE IN THE BEDROOM', '\'s protection? Because, if not--"', 'crubb, and he almost deserved it. His ', ' And a promise, or very nea', 'illed water and an', "d we have no women's clothes on board. Y", ' not wanted here," said Ed', "s outside the door I'll ge", 'been lying beside E', ' promptly sick.\n', " are playing. Stop it. I'll tell Alb", 'ck became visible fo', ' country. Edmund and Lucy were luck', 'g before his time. Narnian time ', 'believe when you saw ', 'ercise book which had bee', 'at all want to come and stay ', ' Britain, as so', 'e had grown bigger. Eustace jumped', ' leg, drew back his right', 'der her from the other side. There was a', 'mth going right dow', 'riking.) Its left paw rested o', ' as if King Arthur came back to Britai', 'nd just as they tho', 'aky with fright and bad temp', 'ce Clarence Scrubb, a', 'n, as one might have expected, Eustace', 'ers and teetotallers and wore a', 'ng to be asked. Say', 'ere," said Edmund curtly.\n\n', 'on being put ashor', 't one wanted, and as Lucy and Edmund ', ', "that this sing', 'h all their best e', 'm deeply. Instead, she went down on o', "cy's bedroom. What he saw was b", 'grabbed at him from the other ', 'ing to be asked. Sa', 'down to their toes. But E', 'he swaying deck, was perf', 's darker blue from the shadow of ', 'ts called him Eustace C', 'at him from the other side an', 'ing off the ship', ' make do with some', 'ed.\n\n"What a fool I a', 'ld get far more out of a trip to Ameri', ' elevators or of fat forei', 'e Eustace knew lots of answers to this, ', 'sk him what an assy-thin', 'hat there are dozens of ways to ', 'ly moving. And the water look', "p's sides and the cre", 'leared out or flared up. Eustace di', 'nd down. He had only once been', 'ng high above them, and people looki', 'econd Battle of Beruna', 'heart sank. He was prom', 'y is," said Edmund. "He\'s only ', 'ich was a rich purple. The s', "'s clothes were too big for her, but", ' green and tried anoth', 'ief Mouse. It h', "'t like it at a", 'for an exam and he was t', 'ed, as she had alw', 'the sooner the better.\n\nRynelf returne', 'way, the horrid thing."\n\nHe really had s', 'don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go?" said Ca', 're. Consequently, when the Pevensie chi', 'ge with only one bedroom to spare.', 'ut it was dreadful having to spend the', '\n\n"For Heaven\'s ', "ke don't let him get star", 'there was very little furnit', ' came grinning into the room. Last year', ' with the Pevensies, ', ' can hardly blame him i', 'ood deal of voyag', 'y were dead and pinned on', 'y visited it twice; not in a game o', 'elf, he did not approve of t', ' herself as much at home as if she had ', 'ing Edmund, too.', 'e question is," said Edmund, "whet', 'le a bad time if you a', 'ings and Queens of Narnia long before h', ' private and secret countr', "diving off the ship's side. Edmun", 'y one mast and one large, square', 'en several things happened at the same', 'deed as if they were going up and down. ', 'd jumped up beside him. The', 'ng again.\n\n"Do you l', 'ed books if they were books of inform', ' a little surprised. So', 'ought of course that they were mak', 'e can hardly blame him if his', 'e ship looks as if', 'th foam, and paler blue s', 'and secret country. Most', ' They had already visited ', ' deal of voyaging. The cabin was ver', 'as very dark, almost bla', 'und them, swept them o', 'p up in her arms an', 'ver-all high, steady roar of air and wat', "ldn't have stood up even to", 't she would have g', 'lking Beasts of Narnia and the Chief ', 'spairing cry suddenly end', 'he motion of the ship did ', "Majesties' presence was lacking to this ", 'he picture were mov', 'if they were going up and down.', 'to the horizon. Perhaps we ', ' in whose house these fo', "e had none. He didn't call his Fathe", 'arder than any boy of his age has ', '.\n\nWhat they were seeing may be hard to', 'oke to him, for he had none. He', ' differently from ours. If you spent ', 's long ago in the ', '" said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m trying ', ' to America, and Susan had gone', 'ith only one bedroom to ', ' Caspian immediately opened a door on ', ' door into the stern cabin.', "nged. I'll give you up my cabin o", '. They were very up-to-date and a', 'ck to our world at ', 'k. And then all three chil', "on't rhyme, to begin with", ' delicacy) and the flat gold', 'y this time either they had grown much', ' if you step out', 'ened at the same time. Eustace rus', 'Narnia\nGot gradually balmier and balm', 'nd four silver cups. It was just what', 'What they were seeing may be ', 'insisted on bei', 'ther look. And ', 'he finally stood, dripping and shivering', 'a card. He liked books if t', 'silly and vulgar ', ' wet things outside the door ', ' about it a good deal, when they got the', 'parents called him ', 'blue waves fleck', 'gh the air to the wall behind', 'he boy king of Narnia whom they h', 'and her teeth began chatterin', 'ere was a lot of shouting going on fro', ' we can hardly blame ', 'was to go with him b', 'aying with the Pevensies, he had m', 'n kept her mouth shut and her eyes ope', 'grown bigger. Eustace jumped ', 'he water looks as if it was really wet.', 't make things worse, l', 'rples. On the other, it was dar', '. It was the only', ' Reepicheep to Luc', 'h better if she had used a slo', 'ped to try to p', 'tarboard.) All the sunlight fell on he', 'not--"\n\nAt this moment Lucy and Ed', ' and cuddle him. But t', ' of the ship.\n\n"The question is', 'hing up to the frame as they might', 'to be dried."\n\nLu', ' side, and said, "', '\n\n"Let you go?" said Caspian. "B', "st the ship's sides and the creaki", ' older than herself.\n\n"Ca-Ca-Caspia', ' a thousand Narnian years had', 'om the ship, heads crowding to', ' wall above the door. All this she to', 'w it happening. ', 'ey and Peter and Susan had ', 'nutes alone together.', 'armth going right down to their toes. Bu', 'e open mouth. She had on', 't of us, I suppose, have a secret', 't and not to be a', ' in reality. They had got there ', 'few clothes on the beds a', 'ent Lucy and Edmund both sneezed.\n\n"What', ' go back. I don\'t like it."\n\n"Let you go', 'ouse. But then it was a Mouse on ', 'pected to see the picture frame', 'ed here," said Edmund curtly.\n\n"I\'m tryi', 'er hand, straightened himse', 'try was real. They ha', 'hey were breathless from the s', ' opened a door on the starboard side,', 'n which you left. And ', 'singularly discourteous person', ' Pevensies, he had managed ', 'r me," said Edmund, "becau', 'feel sick again. He turned rathe', 'to pull it off the wall and fo', 'nd hurriedly, but ', 'ks and bubbles on it. She was obviou', " afraid we have no women's cl", 'f, he did not approve of t', 'ace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him what a', 'her had got a job lecturing ', 're luckier than other peo', ' starboard.) All the sunlight fe', '"\n\nThe other two wer', 'he motion of the ship did not worry ', 'ited it twice; not in a game', 'a bad time if you are in your ', 'h you left. And then, if you went b', 'st boys, on meeting a reception ', 'ed up beside him. There w', 'dow at the water rushing past and took ', '. Father had got a job', ' the sunlight fell on her from that', 'said Eustace to Lucy.\n\n"Well, for on', 'open mouths.\n\nWhat they were', " been in Caspian's cabin for weeks, ", 'r in their clothes. Sh', 'just exactly as Eustace C', ' to make do with some of mine. Lead the', 'ry her, for in the old d', 'own. Edmund and the stranger were fas', 're the gilded wings of the dragon en', 'e and up went a ', 'e when she finally stood, drippin', 't get there."\n\n"Eve', 'rples. On the other, i', " it doesn't make things worse, lo", 'ter that followed what seemed a very l', 'riny smell, which really convinced Lu', 'aching them. You', 'away," wailed Eustace. "I hate mice. ', 'very nearly a promise, had been made t', 'f King Arthur came back to Brit', 'o big for her, but she co', ' us, Brother," w', "e diving off the ship's si", 'k out and not to be', ', squeaky with fright and bad tem', 'one ought to do who falls into deep wate', 'ry hard at Eustace. But Cas', ' day get back. You may imagine that they', 'N THE BEDROOM\n\nThere was', 'ockers while he', 't what one wanted, and as Lucy', 'ind him, and Lucy felt all her hair whi', ' adventures long ago in the war year', 'f struggling and shouting, an', 'that picture?" h', 'pat it out and was s', ' Eustace. Then someone else, ', 'to meet her and her', 'ng Eustace. Then someone else, whose fa', ' in a panic and down they both went.\n\nWh', 's that at that very moment he looke', 'ide open mouth. She h', 'ound herself as much at home ', 'droom to spare. It would have ', 'Narnia she had done a', 'hat a thousand Narnian years had pa', 'thing."\n\nHe really had some excus', 'y and vulgar and-and sentimental', 'imals, especially beet', 's were too big for her, bu', 'nk. He was promptly sick.\n\n"Hey! Rynel', 'le; but before he could s', 'cried Eustace; and then several things h', "pse of Lucy's bedroom. What he sa", 'etter.\n\nRynelf returned with the spiced ', 'rker blue from the sh', 'eady said, "Yes, I do. I like', 'n and in a few minutes Lucy found ', 'pian immediately opened a door o', 'ur came back to Britain, as some pe', 'ied not to grud', ' both went.\n\nWhen they', ' up to the top of one glorious blue', 'd, kissed her hand, straightened himse', 'nia, which was the n', 'ad broken right out of the fram', ' if she had used a slower stroke, and', 'nour must give way-at least ', 'at house he would', 'red out or flared up.', 'e low cushioned ', ' that they talked about it a good d', 'liked his cousins the four Pevensie', 'ooking at her from the ', 'in for weeks, and the motion of the s', ' her now, treadin', 'ok out and not to be a', 't he saw was blue waves f', 'ildren had had wonderful adventur', ' in the second Ba', "s' work, she knew at once by its e", 'aid Lucy. "And she is such a very N', 'at she was not dreaming.\n\n"Stop it," cam', 'ed her shoes off, as ev', 's they might to a rock. He los', ' ask him what an assy-thingummy ', ' Narnia after spending a week here, ', 'im. There was a second of strugglin', "'ll get them taken to the g", 'd game?" said Eustace Clarence, ', 'and indeed it was-a Mouse. But the', 'ture. Edmund, who knew something about ', 'deal of voyaging. The cabin', 'irds and beasts and crim', 'ey got the chance.\n\nT', 'about magic, spra', 's if they were really g', 'our head that the left of a ship when y', 'ted it twice; not in a game or a dream,', ' They had already visited it twice; no', '"What a fool I am to ke', 'y sick.\n\n"Hey! R', "n Caspian's cabin", ' head of a dragon with wid', ' some excuse this time for ', 't back. You may imagine', ' with great delight.\n\n"But w', 'and Narnian years had passed, or only a', ' wet things outsid', 'on a card. He li', 'er, Susan, Edmun', 't was only a picture. Still, she kept he', 'r felt a great deal', "For Heaven's sake don't let him get ", 'ht her the pretty one ', "ous person is under your Majesty's ", ' and over the other and in this was s', 'n the frame; in front o', 'urteous person is under your Majes', 'een horribly seasick. ', 'l, she kept her head and kicked her s', ') Its left paw rested on th', ' from that side, ', 'ief Mouse. It had won undying glo', "ur Majesties' presence was lackin", 'tly sick.\n\n"Hey! Rynelf," said Caspian t', 'y were dead and', ' and her stern and her deck ', 'ta. They were ve', 'ner the better.\n\nRynelf retu', "ny Plumptree's Vitami", 'to deep water in their c', 'ked her shoes off, as everyone ought', ' Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But ', 'ild, briny smell, which', ' beside him. There was a s', 'of struggling and shouting', 'the very same hour of t', 'o the room. Last year, wh', 'otion of the sh', 'nderstand," said Reepich', 'aspian it was; Caspian, the boy ', 'eing put ashore at the', 'ernoon when Edmund and Lu', 'pray. And then ', 'ugh otherwise very old for her age) and ', ', you had better get it i', 'to warm you after that dip." He c', 'ld, salt splash had broke', 't she could manage. His shoes, sanda', 'und her face as ', 'tting on the edge of her bed and', ' was crying much ha', 'you could see of them w', ' even kept her mouth s', ' Harold and Alberta. T', 'you. Her prow was gilded and shaped like', 'mund curtly.\n\n"I\'', '"But where?"\n\nEustace ', 'wn home and they are only visitors.\n\n', 'out Narnia, which was the name of t', 'ourse Eustace knew lots of answers to th', 'ws were always open.\n\nEustace', 'le duty to your Majest', 'Harold and Alberta. They were very', 'is, would either have cleared out ', 'heep, the most valiant of all the Talki', ' up in her arms and cuddle h', 'ead, she went down on one ', 'mund and Lucy. Bu', 'h purple. The side', 'he swishing of waves and the slap of w', 'aw a white figu', ' they did look very much indeed a', 'e his time. Narnian time', 'talk to him.\n\nReepicheep put forward hi', ' as soon as she had b', 'spian it was; Caspian, the boy king', 'ranger were fastening r', 'motion of the ship did not worry h', 'cially beetles, if t', ', warning him to look out and not to ', '. Narnian time flows differentl', ' for me," said Edm', 'eeting a reception', 'll been Kings and Queens of Narnia ', ' it was (for the Narnians) as if King', 'was no good at school work (though oth', 'always open.\n\nEustace Clare', 'nderstand," said Reep', ' the hilt of a sword ', 'of course by Magic, which is the o', 'to cry again and as', 'her look. And then al', 'spent a hundred years in Narnia', 's, but, just exac', 'hey had got their balance a gr', "f Lucy's bedroo", 'ked about it a good deal, when they go', 'eens of Narnia lon', '. And a promise, or very', ' America than the youngsters". Edmu', 'elf passing through the door into t', 'aginary country. Edmund a', 'nia long before', ' of a sword very nearly as long as ', ' while it was only a picture. Still', 'othes were too big for her', ' here," said Edmund curtly', 's. If he had still been in that house', ' a ship when you are looking ahead', 'r the Narnians) as i', 'would have cost too much money to', 'eep you all standing here in your we', '"even a question of honour must g', 'e sky, both spreading', ' said Eustace. "Something like t', "I'm afraid we have no women's clothes ", 'ect was bold an', 'that. Down went the p', ' or flared up. Eustace did neither', 'hat they liked. Aunt Alberta didn', "dn't look at all like a cinema eith", 'er side. There was a lot of ', 'lking Beasts of Narnia and the Chief M', 'eens and purples.', 'had got a job lecturi', 'ment an exercise', 'ing and perhaps he\'ll go away."\n\nM', 'g over a little on he', 'hey were very up-to-date and advanced p', ' afternoon when Edmund a', 'ut of a trip to Ame', 'eaved up, and then the miserable', 've them, and people looking at her', ' a few minutes Lucy found herse', 'ng Beasts of Narnia and the', "one. He didn't call his F", 'ow become poor since the old d', 'lk to him.\n\nReepicheep put', " Narnian ship when you can'", 'and they were breathless from the smac', 's outside the door ', 'e could be got on boa', "arnia and balmier don't rhyme, ", 'nd, "because you\'', 'deal, when they got the chance.\n\n', 'ed about Art and all t', " Plumptree's Vitami", 'er, and her stern and her', 'oned benches round three sides of the t', "e rushed to the ship's si", 'of-door for that. Down went the', 'the convenience of a lady," s', 'id not at all want to co', 'pped, rose and sailed through t', 'oom with that record stinker, E', 'hen you can\'t get there."\n\n"', 'er "Father" and "Mother", but Harold and', 'ell, Narnia and balm', 'forward wall above the door. All this sh', 'ieve when you read it', ' teetotallers and wore a special kin', 'ling a little surprised. ', 'e-"and then leave you ', 'refoot on board ship. When she ha', 'd he loved teasing them about it. He t', " hadn't any Plumptree's Vitaminised Nerv", ' furniture and very fe', "ian's clothes were too big fo", 'cabin for weeks, and the motion of th', 'ome and they are only visitors.\n', 'away."\n\nMost boys, on meeting a', 'ion on the forw', 'imental."\n\n"Am I to understand,', 'rd his left leg, drew back his right, b', 't\'s. "But it\'s far ', 'colder than it had looked while it was ', "perhaps he'll go ", '. And I say the soo', 'games about Narnia\nGot gradually ba', ' you like it?" said Eustace to Luc', ' deck became visible', ' spiced wine for their Majesties. Yo', ' only way of getting', 'p-a ship sailing nearly straight tow', 'nce was lacking to thi', ' with distilled water and anyway he', ' your old game?" said Eustac', 'leg, drew back hi', 'e did not approve', ' was crying much harder ', ', and as Lucy and Edmund sipped', "idays at their Aunt'", "u to change. If you'l", ' from the shadow of the ship', 'lecked with foam,', 't. Their secret country was real. The', 'the bulwarks, r', 'and four silver cups. It was just what', "d been in Caspian's ", 'aid Eustace.\n\n"Don\'t', 'cture," said Eustace.\n\n"You won\'t see', 'er head and kicked her shoes off, as ', ' panic and down they b', ' as some people s', 'port, and the right is star', 'nt an exercise book which had be', 'rone during their', 's dreadful having to spe', 'ed round its head under one ear an', 'e of a lady," said Reep', 'maging in one of the', 'on being put ashore at the next station', 'les. On the other, it was ', "dn't have stood up even to Lucy, le", ' an afternoon when Edmund and Lucy we', ' towards you. Her pro', 'r own and I shall have to share a ', 'very same day on which you left. And th', 'to stay. But he ', 'nimals, especially beetles, if th', 'ce with his cheerful ', 'aid Eustace.\n\n"Don\'t ask him w', 's cousins the four Peven', 'nt to come and stay with Un', 'an years had passed, or only a day', 'assy-thingummy is," sa', 'use, if not--"\n\nAt this moment Luc', 'lue waves flecked with foam', 'towards them. And suddenly with', 'ain and began to cry again and ', '. She was obviousl', 's Father and Mother "Father" a', 'room of your own and I shall ', ' and vulgar and-and ', 'Chapter I\n\nTHE PICTURE']