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THE ISLAND Ohere were four children whose nas were Peter, Susan, Ednd, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witd the Wardrobe how they had a rerkable adehey had opehe door of a gic wardrobe and found theeles in a quite different world froours, and in that different world they had bee Kings and Queens in a try called Narnia. While they were in Narnia they seed tn for years and years; but when they ca back through the door and found theeles in Engnd again, it all seed to hae taken no ti at all. At any rate, no o;kbd;/kbdiced that they had eer been away, and they old anyone ecept one ery wise grown-up.
That had all happened a year ago, and now all four of thewere sitting on a seat at a railway station with trunks and pyboes piled up round the They were, in fact, on their way back to school. They had traelled together as far as this station, which was a jun; and here, in a few nutes, orain would arrie and take the girls away to one school, and in about half an hour arain would arrie and the boys would go off to another school. The first part of the journey, when they were all together, always seed to be part of the holidays; but now when they would be saying good-bye and going different ways so soon, eeryohat the holidays were really oer and eeryoheir terti feelings beginning aga;sa.99lib.;/sain, and they were all rather gloo and no onuld think of anything to say. Lucy was going to b school for the first ti.
It was ay, sleepy, try station and there was hardly anyone on the  tforecept theeles. Suddenly Lucy gae a sharp little cry, like soone who has been stung by a .
quot;Whats up, Lu?quot; said Ednd - and then suddenly broke off and de a noise like quot;Ow!”
quot;What oh-quot;,begaer, and theoo suddenly ged what he had been going to say. Instead, he said, quot;Susa go! What are you doing? Where are you draggio?”
quot;Inot toug you,quot; said Susan. quot;Soone is pulling . Oh - oh -oh - stop it!”
Eeryoiced that all the others faces had gone ery white.
quot;I fe just the sa,quot; said Ednd in a breathless oice. quot;As if I were being dragged along. A st frightful pulling-ugh! its beginning again.”
quot;Me too,quot; said Lucy. quot;Oh, I t bear it.”
quot;Look sharp!quot; shouted Ednd. quot;All catch hands aogether. This is gic - I tell by the feeling. Quick!”
quot;Yes,quot; said Susan. quot;Hold hands. Oh, I do wish it would stop-oh!”
nt the luggage, the seat, the ptfor and the station had  letely ahe four children, holding hands and panting, found theeles standing in a woody pce - such a woody pce that branches were stig into theand there was hardly rooto e. They all rubbed their eyes and took a deep breath.
quot;Oh, Peter!quot; ecid Lucy. quot;Do you think ossibly hae got back to Narnia?”
quot;It ght be anywhere,quot; said Peter. quot;I t see a yard in all these trees. Lets try to get into the open - if there is any open.”
With so difficuy, and with so stings froles and pricks fronbsp; thorns, they struggled out of the thicket. Then they had another surprise. Eerything beca ch brighter, and after a few steps they found theeles at the edge of the wood, looking down on a sandy beach. A few yards away a ery calsea was falling on the sand with such tiny ripples that it de hardly any sound. There was no nd in sight and no clouds in the sky. The sun was about where it ought to be at ten oclo the and the sea was a dazzling blue. They stood sniffing in the sea-sll.
quot;By Joe!quot; said Peter. quot;This is good enough.”
Fie er eeryone was barefooted and wading in thol clear water.
quot;This is better than being in a stuffy train on the way back to Latin and Frend Algebra!quot; said Ednd. And then for quite a long ti there was no re talking, only spshing and looking for shris and crabs.
quot;All the sa,quot; said Susaly, quot;I suppose well hae to ke so;ft;;/ft;  ns. We shall want sothing to eat before long.”
quot;Wee got the sandwiches Mae us for the journey,quot; said Ednd. quot;At least Ie got ne.”
quot;Not ,quot; said Lucy. quot;Mine were in little bag.”
quot;So were ne,quot; said Susan.
quot;Mine are in t-pocket, there on the beach,quot; said Peter. quot;Thatll be two lunches ang four. This isnt going to be such fun.”
quot;At present,quot; said Lucy, quot;I want sothing to drihan sothing to eat.”
Eeryone else now fe thirsty, as one usually is after wading in sa water under a hot sun.
quot;Its like being shipwrecked,quot; rerked Ednd. quot;In the books they always find springs of clear, fresh water on the isnd. Wed better go and look for the”
quot;Does that an we hae to go bato all that thick wood?quot; sai;figure;/figured Susan.
quot;Not a bit of it,quot; said Peter. quot;If there are strea theyre bound to e down to the sea, and if we walk along the beach were bound to e to the”
They all now waded bad went first across the soth, wet sand and then up to the dry, cruly sand that sticks to ooes, and began putting on their shoes and socks.
Ednd and Lucy wao leae thebehind and do their epl with bare feet, but Susan said this would be a d thing to do. quot;We ght neer find thenbsp; again,quot; she pointed out, quot;and we shall want theif were still here when night es and it begins to bld.”
When they were dressed again they set out along the shore with the sea on their left hand and the wood on their right. Ecept for an oasional seagull it was a ery quiet pce.
The wood was so thid tahat theuld hardly see into it at all; and nothing in it ed - not a bird, not een an i.
Shells and seaweed and anenes, or tiny crabs in rockpools, are all ery well, but you sooired of theif you are thirsty. The childre, after the ge frothol water, fe hot and heay. Susan and Lucy had raats to carry. Ednd had put down hiat oatio just before the gic oertook the and he aer took it in turns to carry Peters greaat.
Presently the shore began to cure round to the right. About quarter of an hour ter, after they had crossed a rocky ridge which ran out into a point, it de quite a sharp turn.
Their backs were now to the part of the sea which had t thewhen they first ca out of the wood, and now, looking ahead, theuld see across the water another shore, thickly wooded like the ohey were epl.
quot;I wonder, is that an isnd or do we join on to it presently?quot; said Lucy.
quot;Dont kno;quot; said Peter and they all plodded on in silence.
The shore that they were walking on drew nearer and o the opposite shore, and as they ca round each prontory the childreed to find the pbsp; where the two joined. But in this they were disappoihey ca to so rocks whibsp; they had to cli and frothe top theuld see a fairway ahead and - quot;Oh bother!quot; said Ednd, quot;its no good. We shant be able to get to those other woods at all. Were on an isnd!”
It was true. At this point the el between theand the oppositast was only about thirty or forty yards wide; but theuld now see that this was its narrowest pce. After that, their owast bent round to the right again and theuld see open sea between it and the innd. It was obious that they had already uch re than halfway round the isnd.
quot;Look!quot; said Lucy suddenly. quot;Whats that?quot; She poio a long, silery, snake-like thing that y across the beach.
quot;A strea A streaquot; shouted the others, and, tired as they were, they lost no ti in cttering down the rocks and rag to the fresh water. They khat the streawould be better to drink farther up, away frothe beach, so they went at oo the spot where it ca out of the wood. The trees were as thick as eer, but the streanbsp; had de itself a deeurse between high ssy banks so that by stooping yould follow it up in a sort of tunnel of leaes. They dropped on their knees by the first brown, dily pool and drank and drank, and dipped their faces ier, and then dipped their ar in up to the elbow.
quot;No;quot; said Ednd, quot;what about those sandwiches?”
quot;Oh, hadter hae thequot; said Susan. quot;We y hefar worse ter on.”
quot;I do wish,quot; said Lucy, quot;now that were not thirsty, wuld go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.”
quot;But what about those sandwiches?quot; repeated Ednd. quot;Theres no good saing thetill they go bad. Youe got to reer its a good deal hotter here than in Engnd and wee been carrying theabout in pockets for hours.quot; So they got out the two packets and diided theinto four portions, and nobody had quite enough, but it was a great deal better than nothing. Thealked about their pns for the al. Lucy wao go back to the sea and catch shris, until soone pointed out that they had s.
Ednd said they st gather gulls eggs frothe rocks, but when they bsp; to think of it theuldnt reer haing seen any gulls eggs and wouldnt be able tok theif they found any. Peter thought to hielf that uhey had so stroke of luck they would soon be gd to eat eggs raw, but he didnt see any point in saying this out loud.
Susan;kbd;/kbd said it ity they had eaten the sandwiches so soon. One or two teers ery nearly got lost at this stage. Finally Ednd said:
quot;Look here. Theres only ohing to be done. We st eplore the wood. Herts and knights-errant and people like that always o lie sohow if theyre in a forest.
They find roots and berries and things.”
quot;What sort of roots?quot; asked Susan.
quot;I always thought it ant roots of trees,quot; said Lucy.
quot;e on,quot; said Peter, quot;Ed is right. A try to do sothing. And itll be better than going out into the gre and the sun again.”
So they all got up and began to follow the strea It was ery hard work. They had to stoop under branches and cli oer branches, and they bluhrough great sses of stuff like rhododendrons and tore their clothes and got their feet wet irea and still there was no all ecept the noise of the streaand the hey were king theeles. They were beginning to get ery tired of it when they noticed a delicious sll, and then a fsh ht ch aboe theat the top of the right bank.
quot;I say!quot; ecid Lucy. quot;I do beliee thats an apple tree.”
It was. They panted up the steep bank, forced their way through so brales, and found theeles standing round an old tree that was heay with rge yellowishgolden apples as firand juicy as yould wish to see.
quot;And this is not the only tree,quot; said Ednd with his uth full of apple. quot;Look there-and there.”
quot;Why, there are dozens of thequot; said Susan, throwing away thre of her first apple and pig her sed. quot;This st hae been an orchard - long, long ago, before the pce went wild and the wood grew up.”
quot;Then this was on inhabited isnd,quot; said Peter.
quot;And whats that?quot; said Lucy, pointing ahead.
quot;By Joe, its a wall,quot; said Peter. quot;An old stone wall.”
Pressing their way between the den brahey reached the wall. It was ery old, and broken down in pces, with ss and wallflrowing on it, but it was higher than all but the tallest trees. And when they ca quite close to it they found a great arch which st once hae had a gate in it but was now alst filled up with the rgest of all the apple trees. They had to break so of the brao get past, and when they had done so they all blinked because the daylight beca suddenly bsp; brighter. They found theeles in a wide opeh walls all round it. In here there were no trees, only leel grass and daisies, and iy, and grey walls. It was a bright, secret, quiet pce,
and rather sad; and all four stepped out into the ddle of it, gd to be able thten their backs aheir lis freely.
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