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HOW THEY LEFT THE ISLAND
quot;AND so,quot; said Trukin (for, as you hae realized, it was he who had been telling all this story to the four children, sitting on the grass in the ruined hall of Cair Parael) - quot;and so I put a crust or two in  ocket, left behind all ons but dagger, and took to the woods in the grey of the Id been plugging away for ny hours when there ca a sound that Id neer heard the like of in born days. Eh, I wohat. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, nbsol and sweet as sic oer water, but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to self, `If thats not the Horn, call a rabbit. And a nt ter I wondered why he hadnt blown it sooner-”
quot;What ti was it?quot; asked Ednd.
quot;Between nine and ten of the clock,quot; said Trukin.
quot;Just when we were at the railway station!quot; said all the children, and looked at one another with shining eyes.
quot;Please go on,quot; said Lucy to the Dwarf.
quot;Well, as I was saying, I wondered, but I went on as hard as uld pe. I kept on all night - and then, when it was half light this as if Id no re sehan a Giant, I risked a short cut across open try to cut off a big loop of the rier, and was caught.
Not by the ar, but by a poous old fool who has charge of a little castle which is Mirazs st stronghold towards thast. I tell you they got no true tale out of , but I was a Dwarf and that was enough. But, lobsters and lollipops! it is a good thing the seneschal oous fool. Anyone else would hae ruhrough there and then. But nothing would do for hishort of a graion: sending down `to the ghosts in the full ial way. And then this young dyquot;, (he Susan) quot;does her bit of archery and it retty shooting, let tell you - and here we are. And without arur, for ourse they took that.quot; He knocked out and refilled his pipe.
quot;Greattt!quot; said Peter. quot;So it was the horn - your own horn, Su - that dragged us all off that seat oforyesterday I hardly beliee it; yet it all fits in.”
quot;I dont know why you shouldnt beliee it,quot; said Lucy, quot;if you beliee in gic at all.
Arent there lots of stories about gic f people out of one pce - out of one world - into another? I an, when a gi in The Arabian Nights calls up a Jinn, it has to e. We had to e, just like that.”
quot;Yes,quot; said Peter, quot;I suppose what kes it feel so queer is that iories its always soone in our world who does the calling. One doesnt really think about where the Jinns ing fro”
quot;And now we know what it feels like for the Jinn,quot; said Ednd with a chuckle. quot;Golly!
Its a bit unfortable to know that we be whistled for like that. Its worse than what Father says about liing at the rcy of the telephone.”
quot;But we want to be here, dont ;quot; said Lucy, quot;if Asn wants us?”
quot;Meanwhile,quot; said the Dwarf, quot;what are we to do? I suppose Id better go back to King Caspian and tell hino help has e.”
quot;No help?quot; said Susan. quot;But it has worked. And here we are.”
quot;U- u- yes, to be sure. I see that,quot; said the Dwarf, whose pipe seed to be blocked (at any rate he de hielf ery busy ing it). quot;But- well - I an -”
quot;But dont you yet see who we are?quot; shouted Lucy. quot;You are stupid.”
quot;I suppose you are the four children out of the old stories,quot; said Trukin. quot;And Iery gd to et you ourse. And its ery iing, no doubt. But - no offence?- and he hesitated again.
quot;Do get on and say whateer yoing to say,quot; said Ednd.
quot;Well, then - no offence,quot; said Trukin. quot;But, you know, the King and Trufflehunter and Doctor elius were epeg - well, if you see what I an, help. To put it in another way, I think theyd been igining you as great warriors. As it is - were awfully fond of children and all that, but just at the nt, in the ddle of a war but Isure you uand.”
quot;You an you think were no good,quot; said Ednd, getting red in the face.
quot;Now pray dont be offended,quot; interrupted the Dwarf. quot;I assure you, dear little friends-”
quot;Little froyou is really a bit too ch,quot; said Ednd, juing up. quot;I suppose you dont beliee we wotle of Beruna? Well, you say what you like about because I know -”
quot;Theres no good losing our teers,quot; said Peter. quot;Lets fit hiout with fresh arur and fit ourseles out frothe treasure chaer, and hae a talk after that.”
quot;I dont quite see the point -quot; began Ednd, but Lucy whispered in his ear, quot;Hadter do eter says? He is the High King, you know. And I think he has an idea.”
So Ednd agreed and by the aid of his torch they all, including Trukin, went doweps again into the dark ess and dusty splendour of the treasure house.
The Dwarfs eyes glistened as he saw the weah that y on the sheles (though he had to stand on tiptoes to do so) atered to hielf, quot;It would neer do to let Nikabrik see this; neer.quot; They found easily enough a il shirt for hi a sword, a he, a shield, a bow and quierful of arrows, all of dwarfish size. The he was opper, set with rubies, and there was gold on the hi of the sword: Trukin had neer seen, ch less carried, so ch weah in all his life. The children also put on il shirts as; a sword and shield were found for Ednd and a bow for Lucy - Peter and Susan were ourse already carrying their gifts. As they ca back up the stairway, jingling in their il, and already looking and feeling re like Narnians and less like schoolchildren, the two boys were behind, apparently king so pn. Lubsp; heard Ednd say, quot;No, let do it. It will be re of a sucks for hiif I win, and less of a let-down for us all if I fail.”
quot;All right, Ed,quot; said Peter.
When they ca out into the daylight Ednd turo the Dwarf ery  olitely and said, quot;Ie got sothing to ask you. Kids like us dont oftehe eeting a great warrior like you. Would you hae a little feng tch with ? It would be frightfully det.”
quot;But, d,quot; said Trukin, quot;these swords are sharp.”
quot;I kno;quot; said Ednd. quot;But Ill neer get anywhere near you and youll be quite cleer enough to disar without doing any dage.”
quot;Its a dangerous ga,quot; said Trukin. quot;But sinake such a point of it, Ill try a pass or two.”
Both swords were out in a nt and the three others jued off the dais and stood watg. It was well worth it. It was not like the silly fighting you see with broad swords oage. It was not een like the rapier fighting which you sotis see rather better dohis was real broad-sword fighting. The great thing is to ssh at your enes legs a because they are the part that hae no arur. And when he sshes at yours you ju with both feet off the ground so that his blow goes uhe This gae the Dwarf an adantage because Ednd, being ch taller, had to be always stooping. I dont think Ednd would hae had a ce if he had fought Trukiy-four hours earlier. But the air of Narnia had been w upon hinbsp; eer sihey arried on the isnd, and all his old battles ca ba, and his ar and fingers reered their old skill. He was King Ednd once re. Round and round the two batants circled, stroke after stroke they gae, and Susan (who neeuld learn to like this sort of thing) shouted out, quot;Oh, do be careful.quot; And then, so quickly that no one (uhey ker diduld quite see how it happened, Ednd fshed his sword round with a peculiar twist, the Dwarfs sword flew out of his grip, and Trukin was wringing his ety hand as you do after a quot;stingquot; froa cricket-bat.
quot;Not hurt, I hope, dear little friend?quot; said Ednd, panting a little aurning his own sword to its sheath.
quot;I see the point,quot; said Trukin drily. quot;You know a trick I neer learned.”
quot;Thats quite true,quot; put ier. quot;The best swordsn in the world y be disard by a trick thats o hi I think its only fair to gie Trukin a bsp; at sothing else.
Will you hae a shooting tch with sister? There are no tricks in archery, you know.”
quot;Ah, youre jokers, you are,quot; said the Dwarf. quot;I begin to see. As if I didnt know how she shoot, after what happehis All the sa, Ill hae a try.quot; He spoke gruffly, but his eyes brightened, for he was a faus bown ang his own  eople.
All fie of theca out into thurtyard.
quot;Whats to be the target?quot; asked Peter.
quot;I think that apple hangihe wall on the branch there would do,quot; said Susan.
quot;Thatll do nicely, ss,quot; said Trukin. quot;You an the yellow ohe ddle of the arch?”
quot;No, not that,quot; said Susan. quot;The red one up aboe - oer the battlent.”
The Dwarfs face fell. quot;Looks re like a cherry than an apple,quot; he ttered, but he said nothing out loud.
They tossed up for first shot (greatly to the i of Trukin, who had neer seen a tos;tt;/ttsed before) and Susan lost. They were to shoot frothe top of the steps that led frothe hall into thurtyard. Eeryonuld see frothe way the Dwarf took his position and handled his bow that he knew what he was about.
Twahe string. It was an ecellent shot. The tiny apple shook as the arrow passed, and a leaf ca fluttering down. Then Susao the top of the steps and strung her bow. She was not enjoyich half so ch as Ednd had enjoyed his; not because she had any doubt about hitting the apple but because Susan was so tenderhearted that she alst hated to beat soone who had beeen already. The Dwarf watched her keenly as she drew the shaft to her ear. A nt ter, with a little soft thu which theuld all hear in that quiet pce, the apple fell to the grass with Susans arrow in it.
quot;Oh, well done, Su, quot; shouted the other children.
quot;It wasnt really aer than yours,quot; said Susan to the Dwarf. quot;I think there was a tiny breath of wind as you shot.”
quot;No, there wasnt,quot; said Trukin. quot;Dont tell . I know when I afairly beaten. I wont een say that the sy st wound catches a bit when I get arwell back -”
quot;Oh, are you wounded?quot; asked Lucy. quot;Do let look.”
quot;Its not a sight for little girls,quot; began Trukin, but then he suddenly checked hielf.
quot;There I go talking like a fool again,quot; he said quot;I suppose youre as likely to be a great surgeon as your brother was to be a great swordsn or your sister to be a great archer.”
He sat down oeps and took off his hauberk and slipped down his little shirt, showing an arhairy and scur (in proportion) as a sailors though not ch bigger than a childs. There was a cluy bandage on the shoulder which Lubsp; proceeded to unroll. Underh, the cut looked ery nasty and there was a good deal of swelling. quot;Oh, poor Trukin,quot; said Lucy. quot;How horrid.quot; Then she carefully dripped on to it one single drop of thrdial froher fsk.
quot;Hullo. Eh? What hae you done?quot; said Trukin. But howeer he turned his head and squinted and whisked his beard to and fro, huldnt quite see his own shoulder. Then he fe it as well as huld, getting his ar and fingers into ery difficu positions as you do when youre trying to scratch a pce that is just out of reabsp; Then he swung his arand raised it and tried the scles, and finally jued to his feet g, quot;Giants and junipers! Its cured! Its as good as ne;quot; After that he burst into a great ugh and said, quot;Well, Ie de as big a fool of self as eer a Dwarf did. No offence, I hope? My hule duty to your Majesties all -hule duty. And thanks f;cite;/citeor life, cure, breakfast - and lesson.”
The children all said it was quite all right and not to ntion it.
quot;And no;quot; said Peter, quot;if youe really decided to beliee in us-”
quot;I hae,quot; said the Dwarf.
quot;Its quite clear what we hae to do. We st join King Caspian at once.”
quot;The soohe better,quot; said Trukin. quot;My being such a fool has already wasted about an hour.”
quot;Its about two days jourhe way you ca,quot; said Peter. quot;For us, I a walk all day and night like you Dwarfs.quot; Theuro the others. quot;What Trukin calls Asns How is obiously the Stoable itself. You reer it was about half a days rch, or a little less, frothere down to the Fords of Beruna -”
quot;Berunas Bridge, we call it,quot; said Trukin.
quot;There was ne in our ti,quot; said Peter. quot;And then froBeruna down to here was another day and a bit. We used to get ho about teati on the sed day, going easily. Going hard, wuld do the whole thing in a day and a half  erhaps.”
quot;But reer its all woods no;quot; said Trukin, quot;and there are eo dodge.”
quot;Look here,quot; said Ednd, quot;need we go by the sa way that Our Dear Little Friend ca?”
quot;No re of that, your Majesty, if you loe ,quot; said the Dwarf.
quot;Very well,quot; said Ednd. quot;May I say our D.L.F.?”
quot;Oh, Ednd,quot; said Susan. quot;Dont keep on at hilike that.”
quot;Thats all right, ss - I an your Majesty,quot; said Trukin with a chuckle. quot;A jibe wont raise a blister.quot; (And after that they often called hithe D.L.F. till theyd alst fotten what it ant.)
quot;As I was saying,quot; tinued Ednd, quot;we go that way. Why shouldnt we row a little south till we e to Gsswater Creek and row up it? That brings us up behind the Hill of the Stoable, and well be safe while were at sea. If we start at once, we be at the head of Gsswater before dark, get a few hours sleep, ah Caspiay early torrow.”
quot;What a thing it is to know thast,quot; said Trukin. quot;None of us know anything about Gsswater.”
quot;What about food?quot; asked Susan.
quot;Oh, well hae to do with apples,quot; said Lucy. quot;Do lets get on. Wee done nothi, and wee been here nearly two days.”
quot;And anyway, no ones going to hae hat for a fishbasket again,quot; said Ednd.
They used one of the raats as a kind of bag and put a good ny apples in it. Then they all had a good long drink at the well (for they would et no re fresh water till they the head of the Creek) a down to the boat. The children were sorry to leae Cair Parael, which, een in ruins, had begun to feel like ho again.
quot;The D.L.F. had better steer,quot; said Peter, quot;and Ed and I will take an oar each. Half a nt, though. Wed better take off our il: were going to be pretty warbefore were dohe girls had better be;bdo;/bdo in the bows and shout dires to the D.L.F. because he doesnt know the way. Youd better get us a fair way out to sea till wee passed the isnd.”
And soon the green, woodeast of the isnd was falling away behind the and its little bays and headnds were beginning to look ftter, and the boat was rising and falling in the gentle swell. The sea began to grow bigger around theand, in the distance, bluer, but close round the boat it was green and bubbly. Eerything slled sa and there was no noise ecept the swishing of water and the clop-clop of water against the sides and the spsh of the oars and the joing noise of the rowlocks. The sun grew hot.
It was delightful for Lud Susan in the bows, bendihe edge and trying to get their hands in the sea which theuld neer quite reach. The botto stly pure, pale sand but with oasional patches of purple seaweeduld be seeh the
quot;Its like old tis,quot; said Lucy. quot;Do you reer our oyage to Terebinthia - and Gal - and Seen Isles - and the Lone Isnds?”
quot;Yes,quot; said Susan, quot;a ship the Splendour Hyaline, with the swans head at her prow andbbr９9liｂ?;/abbr the cared swans wings ing back alst to her waist?”
quot;And the silken sails, and the great stern nterns?”
quot;And the feasts on the poop and the sis.”
quot;Do you reer when we had the sis up in the rigging pying flutes so that it sounded like sic out of the sky?”
Presently Susan took oer Ednds oar and he ca forward to join Lubsp; They had passed the isnd now and stood closer in to the shore - all wooded and deserted. They would hae thought it ery pretty if they had not reered the ti when it en and breezy and full of rry friends.
quot;Phew! This is pretty gruelling work,quot; said Peter. quot;t I row for a bit?quot; said Lucy. quot;The oars are too big for you,quot; said Peter shortly, not because he was cross but because he had nth to spare for talking.
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