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OLD NARNIA IN DAHE pce where they had t the Fauns was, ourse, Dang Lawn itself, and here Caspian and his friends reiill the night of the great cil. To sleep uhe stars, to drink nothing but well water and to lie chiefly on nuts and wild fruit, was a strange eperience for Caspian after his bed with silkes in a tapestried chaer at the castle, with als id out on gold and siler dishes ieroo and attendants ready at his call. But he had neer enjoyed hielf re. Neer had sleep been re refreshing nor food tasted re saoury, and he began already to harden and his face wore a kinglier look.
When the great night ca, and his arious strange subjects ca stealing into the wn by ones and twos and threes or by sies and seens - the on then shining alst at her full - his heart swelled as he saw their nuers and heard their greetings. All whohe had t were there: Bulgy Bears and Red Dwarfs and Bck Dwarfs, Moles and Badgers, Hares and Hedgehogs, and others whohe had not yet seen - fie Satyrs as red as foes, the whole ti of Talking Mice, ard to the teeth and following a shrill truet, so Owls, the Old Raen of Raenscaur. Last of all (and this took Caspians breath away), with the taurs ca a sll but genuine Giant, Wileweather of Deadns
Hill, carrying on his back a basketful of rather sea-sick Dwarfs who had aepted his offer of a lift and were now wishing they had walked instead.
The Bulgy Bears were ery anious to hae the feast first ahe cil till afterwards: perhaps till torrow. Reepicheep and his Mice said that cils auld both wait, and proposed st Miraz in his own castle that ery night.
Pattertwig and the other Squirrels said theuld talk a at the sa ti, so why not hae the cil a all at ohe Moles proposed throwing up entres round the Lawn before they did anything else. The Fauns thought it would be better to begin with a sole dahe Old Raen, while agreeing with the Bears that it would take too long to hae a full cil before supper, begged to be allowed to gie a brief address to the whole pany. But Caspian and the taurs and the Dwarfs oerruled all these suggestions and insisted on holding a real cil of war at once.
When all the other creatures had been persuaded to sit down quietly in a great circle, and when (with re difficuy) they had got Pattertwig to stop running to and fro and saying quot;Silence! Silence, eeryone, for the Kings speechquot;, Caspian, feeling a little nerous, got up. quot;Narnians!quot; he began, but he neer got any further, for at that ery nt Callo the Hare said, quot;Hush! Theres a Man sowhere near.”
They were all creatures of the wild, aced to being hunted, and they all beca still as statues. The beasts all turheir noses in the dire whibsp; Callo had indicated.
quot;Slls like Man a not quite like Man,quot; whispered Trufflehunter.
quot;Its getting steadily nearer,quot; said Callo.
quot;Two badgers and you three Dwarfs, with your bows at the - ready, go softly off to et it,quot; said Caspian.
quot;Well settle un,quot; said a Bck Dwarf griy, fitting a shaft to his b.
quot;Dont shoot if it is alone,quot; said Caspian. quot;Catch it.”
quot;Why?quot; asked the Dwarf.
quot;Do as youre told,quot; said Glenstorthe taur.
Eeryone waited in silence while the three Dwarfs and two Badgers trotted steahily across to the trees on the northwest side of the Lawn. Then ca a sharp dwarfish cry, quot;Stop! Who goes there?quot; and a sudden spring. A nt ter a oice, whibsp; Caspian knew welluld he heard saying, quot;All right, all right, Iuake wrists if you like, worthy Badgers, but dont bite right through the I want to speak to the King.”
quot;Doctor elius!quot; cried Caspian with joy, and rushed forward to greet his old tutor.
Eeryone else crowded round.
quot;Pah!quot; said Nikabrik. quot;A renegade Dwarf. A half-and-halfer! Shall I pass sword through its throat?”
quot;Be quiet, Nikabrik,quot; said Trukin. quot;The creature t help its ary.”
quot;This is greatest friend and the saiour of life,quot; said Caspian. quot;And anyone who doesnt like his pany y leae ar: at once. Dearest doctor;dfn藏书网;/dfn, I anbsp; gd to see you again. How eer did you find us out?”
quot;By a little use of sile giajesty,quot; said the Doctor, who was still puffing and blowing frohaing walked so fast. quot;But theres no ti to go into that now. We st all fly frothis pce at once. You are already betrayed and Miraz is on the e.
Before dday torrow you will be surrounded.”
quot;Betrayed!quot; said Caspian. quot;And by who”
quot;Another renegade Dwarf, no doubt,quot; said Nikabrik.
quot;By your horse Destrier,quot; said Doctor elius. quot;The poor brute knew no better. When you were knocked off, ourse, he went dawdling back to his stable in the castle. Then the secret of your flight was known. I de self scarce, ９9liｂ?haing no wish to be questioned about it in Mirazs torture chaer. I had a pretty good guess fro crystal as to where I should find you. But all day - that was the day before yesterday - I saw Mirazs trag parties out in the woods. Yesterday I learhat his ar is out. I dont think so of your - u- pure-blooded Dwarfs hae as ch woodcraft as ght be epected. Youe left tracks all oer the pce. Great carelessness. At any rate sothing has warned Miraz that Old Narnia is not so dead as he had hoped, and he is on the e.”
quot;Hurrah!quot; said a ery shrill and sll oice frosowhere at the Doctors feet. quot;Let thee! All I ask is that the King will put and  eople in the front.”
quot;What oh?quot; said Doctor elius. quot;Has your Majesty got grasshoppers - or squitoes - in your ar?quot; Then after stooping d carefully through his spectacles, he broke into a ugh.
quot;By the Lion,quot; he swore, quot;its a use. Signior Mouse, I desire your better acquaintance.
I ahonoured by eting so aliant a beast.”
quot;My friendship you shall hae, learned Man,quot; piped Reepicheep. quot;And any Dwarf - iant - in the ar who does not gie you good nguage shall hae sword to re with.”
quot;Is there ti for this foolery?quot; asked Nikabrik. quot;What are our pns? Battle or flight?”
quot;Battle if need be,quot; said Trukin. quot;But we are hardly ready for it yet, and this is no ery defensible pce.”
quot;I dont like the idea of running away,quot; said Caspian.
quot;Hear hi Hear hiquot; said the Bulgy Bears. quot;Whateer we do, dos hae any running. Especially not before supper; and not too soon after it her.”
quot;Those who run first do not always run st,quot; said the taur. quot;And why should we let the ene choose our position instead of choosing it ourseles? Let us find a strong pce.”
quot;Thats wise, your Majesty, thats wise,quot; said Trufflehunter.
quot;But where are we to go?quot; asked seeral oices.
quot;Your Majesty,quot; said Doctor elius, quot;and all you ariety of creatures, I thi fly east and down the rier to the great woods. The Telrines hate that region. They hae always been afraid of the sea and of sothing that y e oer the sea. That is why they hae let the great woods grow up. If traditions speak true, the a Cair Parael was at the rier-uth. All that part is friendly to us and hateful to our enees.
We st go to Asns How.”
quot;Asns Ho;quot; said seeral oices. quot;We do not know what it is.”
quot;It lies within the skirts of the Great Woods and it is a huge und whiarnians raised in ery ais oer a ery gical pce, where there stood - and  erhaps still stands - a ery gical Stohe Mound is all hollowed out within into galleries and caes, and the Stone is iral cae of all. There is rooin the und for all our stores, and those of us who hae st need oer and are st absp; to underground life be lodged in the caes. The rest of us lie in the wood. At a pinch all of us (ecept this worthy Giantuld retreat into the Mound itself, and there we should be beyond the reach of eery danger ecept fane.”
quot;It is a good thing we hae a learned n ang us,quot; said Trufflehunter; but Trukin ttered under his breath, quot;Soup and celery! I wish our leaders would think less about these old wies tales and re about ictuals and ar.quot; But all approed of eliuss proposal and that ery night, half an hour ter, they were on the rbsp; Before suhey arried at Asns How.
It was certainly an aweso pce, a round green hill on top of another hill, long since grown oer with trees, and otle, low doorway leading into it. The tunnels inside were a perfect ze till you got to know the and they were lined and roofed with soth stones, and oones, peering iwilight, Caspian saw strange characters and snaky patterns, and pictures in which the forof a Lion was repeated again and
again. It all seed to belong to an een older Narnia than the Narnia of which his nurse had told hi
It was after they had taken up their quarters in and around the How that fortune began tainst the King Mirazsuts soon found their new ir, and he and his ar arried on the edge of the woods. And as so often happens, the eurned out strohan they had reed. Caspia sank as he saw pany after  any arriing.
And though Mirazs n y hae been afraid of going into the wood, they were een re afraid of Miraz, and with hiin and they carried battle deeply into it and sotis alst to the How itself. Caspian and other captains ourse de ny sorties into the open try. Thus there was fighting on st days and sotis by night as well; but Caspians party had on the whole the worst of it.
At st there ca a ni;bdi?９９ｌｉｂ?;/bdight whehing had gone as badly as possible, and the rain which had been falling heaily all day had ceased at nightfall only to gie  ce to rald. That Caspian had arranged what was his biggest battle yet, and all had hung their hopes on it. He, with st of the Dwarfs, was to hae fallen on the Kings right wing at daybreak, and then, when they were heaily engaged, Giant Wileweather, with the taurs and so of the fiercest beasts, was to hae broken out froanother pd endeaoured to cut the Kings right off frothe rest of the ar. But it had all failed. No one had warned Caspian (because no one in these ter days of Narnia reered) that Giants are not at all cleer. Poor Wileweather, though as brae as a lion, was a true Giant in that respect. He had broken out at the wrong ti and frothe wrong pce, and both his party and Caspians had suffered badly and dohe etle har The best of the Bears had been hurt, a taur terribly wounded, and there were few in Caspians party who had not lost blood. It was a gloo  any that huddled uhe dripping trees to eat their sty supper.
The glooest of all was Giant Wileweather. He k was all his fau. He sat in silence shedding big tears whicllected on the end of his nose and then fell off with a huge spsh on the whole biouac of the Mice, who had just been beginning to get warand drowsy. They all jued up, shaking the water out of their ears and wringing their little bs, and asked the Giant in shrill but forcible oices whether he thought they were enough without this sort of thing. And then other people woke up and told the Mice they had been enrolled asuts and not as a cert party, and asked why theuldnt keep quiet. And Wileweather tiptoed away to find so pbsp; where huld be serable in pead stepped on sobodys tail and sobody (they said afterwards it was a fo) bit hi And so eeryone was out of teer.
But in the secret and gical chaer at the heart of the How, King Caspian, with elius and the Badger and Nikabrik and Trukin, were at cil. Thibsp; pilrs of a worknship supported the roof. Ire was the Stoself - a stoable, split right dowre, anered with what had once been writing of so kind: but ages of wind and rain and snow had alst worn theaway in old tis when the
Stoable had stood on the hilop, and the Mound had not yet been bui aboe it. They were not using the Table nor sitting round it: it was too gic a thing for any ohey sat on logs a little way froit, aween thewa;cite;/cites a rough wooden table, on which stood a rude cy lighting up their pale faces and throwing big shadows on the walls.
quot;If your Majesty is eer to use the Horn,quot; said Trufflehunter, quot;I think the ti has now e.quot; Caspian had ourse told theof his treasure seeral days ago.
quot;We are certainly i need,quot; answered Caspian. quot;But it is hard to be sure we are at reatest. Supposing there een worse need and we had already used it?”
quot;By that argunt,quot; said Nikabrik, quot;your Majesty will neer use it until it is too te.”
quot;I agree with that,quot; said Doctor elius.
quot;And what do you think, Trukin?quot; asked Caspian.
quot;Oh, as for ,quot; said the Red Dwarf, who had been listening with plete indifference, quot;your Majesty knows I think the Horn - and that bit of broken stone oer there and yreat Kier - and your Lion Asn - are all eggs in onshis all oo when your Majesty blows the Horn. All I insist on is that the ar is told nothing about it. Theres no good raising hopes of gical help which (as I think) are sure to be disappointed.”
quot;Then in the na of Asn we will wind Queen Susans Horn,quot; said Caspian.
quot;There is ohing, Sire,quot; said Doctor elius, quot;that should perhaps be done first. We do not know what forthe help will take. It ght call Asn hielf fronbsp; oersea. But I think it is re likely to call Peter the High King and his ghty sorts down frothe high past. But iher case, I do not think we be sure that the help will e to this ery spot -”
quot;You neer said a truer word,quot; put in Trukin.
quot;I think,quot; went on the learned n, quot;that they - or he will e back to one or other;q;/q of the A Pces of Narnia. This, where we now sit, is the st a and st deeply gical of all, and here, I think, the answer is likeliest to e. But there are two others. One Lantern Waste, up-rier, west of Beaersda where the Royal Children first appeared in Narnia, as the rds tell The other is down at the rier- uth, where their castle of Cair Parael oood. And if Asn hielf es, that would be the best peeting hitoo, for eery story says that he is the son of the great Eeror-oer-the-Sea, ahe sea he will pass. I should like ery ch to send sseo both pces, to Lantern Waste and the rier-uth, to receie the- or hior it.”
quot;Just as I thought,quot; ttered Trukin. quot;The first resu of all this foolery is not t us help but to lose us two fighters.”
quot;Who would you think of sending, Doctor elius?quot; asked Caspian.
quot;Squirrels are best fetting through ery without being caught,quot; said Trufflehunter.
quot;All our squirrels (and we haent ny),quot; said Nikabrik, quot;are rather flighty. The only one Id trust on a job like that would be Pattertwig.”
quot;Let it be Pattertwig, then,quot; said King Caspian. quot;And who for our other ssenger? I know youd go, Trufflehunter, but you haent the speed. Nor you, Doctor elius.”
quot;I wont go,quot; said Nikabrik. quot;With all these Huns as about, there st be a Dwarf here to see that the Dwarfs are fairly treated.”
quot;Thiles and thuor!quot; cried Trukin in a rage. quot;Is that how you speak to the King? Send , Sire, Ill go.”
quot;But I thought you didnt beliee in the Horn, Trukin,quot; said Caspian.
quot;No re I do, your Majesty. But whats that got to do with it? I ght as well die on a wild goose chase as die here. You are King. I know the differenbsp; between giing adid taking orders. Youe had adice, and now its the ti for orders.”
quot;I will neer fet this, Trukin,quot; said Caspian. quot;Send for Pattertwig, one of you. And when shall I blow the Horn?”
quot;I would wait for sunrise, your Majesty,quot; said Doctor elius. quot;That sotis has an effe operations of White Magic.”
A few er Pattertwig arried and had his task epio hi As he was, like ny squirrels, full of d dash and energy aent and schief (not to say ceit), he no sooner heard it than he was eager to be off. It was arrahat he should run for Lantern Waste while Trukihe shorter jouro the rier-uth. After a hasty al they both set off with the ferent thanks and good wishes of the King, the Badger, and elius.
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