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HOW ALL WERE VERY BUSY A LITTLE before two oclock Trukin and the Badger sat with the rest of the creatures at the woods edge looking across at the gleang line of Mirazs ar which was about two arrow-shots away. Iween, a square space of leel grass had been staked for the bat. At the two far ers stood Glozelle and Sopespian with drawn swords. At the near ers were Giant Wileweather and the Bulgy Bear, who in spite of all their warnings was sug his paws and looking, to tell the truth, unonly silly. To ke up for this, Glenstoron the right of the lists, stock-still ecept ed a hind hoof oasionally ourf, looked ch re iosing thaelrine baron who
faced hion the left. Peter had just shaken hands with Ednd and the Doctor, and was now walking down to the bat. It was like the nt before the pistol goes at an iortant race, but ery ch worse.
quot;I wish Asn had turned up before it ca to this,quot; said Trukin.
quot;So do I,quot; said Trufflehunter. quot;But look behind you.”
quot;Crows and crockery!quot; ttered the Dwarf as soon as he had done so. quot;What are they?
Huge people - beautiful people - like gods and goddesses and giants. Hundreds and thousands of the closing in behind us. What are they?”
quot;Its the Dryads and Hadryads and Silans,quot; said Trufflehunter. quot;Asn has waked the”
quot;Huh!quot; said the Dwarf. quot;Thatll be ery useful if the ery any treachery. But it wohe High King ery ch if Miraz proes handier with his sword.”
The Badger said nothing, for now Peter and Miraz were entering the lists froopposite ends, both on foot, both in shirts, with hes and shields. They adaill they were close together. Both bowed ao speak,, but it was iossible to hear what they said. nt, the two swords fshed in the sunlight. For a sed the csuld be heard but it was iediately drowned because both ares began shouting like crowds at a football tch.
quot;Well done, Peter, oh, well done!quot; shouted Ednd as he saw Miraz reel babsp; a whole pad a half. quot;Follow it up, quick!quot; Aer did, and for a few seds it looked as if the fight ght be won. But then Miraz pulled hielf together - began to ke real use of his height a quot;Miraz! Miraz! The King! The King!quot; ca the roar of the Telrines. Caspian and Ednd grew white with siing ay.
quot;Peter is taking so dreadful knocks,quot; said Ednd.
quot;Hullo!quot; said Caspian. quot;Whats happening now?”
quot;Both falling apart,quot; said Ednd. quot;A bit blow. Watch. Ah, now theyre beginning agaiifically this ti. Cirg round and round, feeling each others defences.”
quot;Iafraid this Miraz knows his work,quot; ttered the Doctor. But hardly had he said this when there was such a g and baying and throwing up of hoods ang the Old Narnians that it was nearly deafening.
quot;What was it? What was it?quot; asked the Doctor. quot;My old eyes ssed it.”
quot;The High King has pricked hiin the arpit,quot; said Caspian, still g. quot;Just where the arhole of the hauberk let the point through. First blood. quot;Its looking ugly again now, though,quot; said Ednd. quot;Peters not using his shield properly. He st be hurt in the left ar”
It was only too true. Eeryonuld see that Peters shield hung li. The shouting of the Telrines redoubled.
quot;Youe seetles than I,quot; said Caspian. quot;Is there any ow?”
quot;Precious little,quot; said Ednd. quot;I suppose he ght just do it. With luck.”
quot;Oh, why did we let it happen at all?quot; said Caspian.
Suddenly all the shouting on both sides died down. Ednd uzzled for a nt.
Then he said, quot;Oh, I see. Theye both agreed to a rest. e on, Doctor. You and I y be able to do sothing for the High King. They ran down to the lists and Peter ca outside the ropes to et the his face red and sweaty, his chest heaing.
quot;Is your left arwounded?quot; asked Ednd.
quot;Its ly a wound,quot; Peter said. quot;I got the ght of his shoulder on shield - like a load of bricks and the riof the shield droe into wrist. I dont think its broken, but it ght be a sprain. If yould tie it up ery tight I think uld nage.”
While they were doing this, Ednd asked aniously. quot;What do you think of hi Peter?”
quot;Tough,quot; said Peter. quot;Very tough. I hae a ce if keep hion the hop till his ght and short wind e against hi- in this hot sun too. To tell the truth, I haent ch ce else. Gie loe to - to eeryo ho, Ed, if he gets . Here he es into the lists again So long, old chap. Good-bye, Doctor. And I say, Ed, say sothing specially o Trukin. Hes been a brick.”
Ednuldnt speak. He walked back with the Doctor to his own lines with a sick feeling in his stoch.
But the new bout went well. Peter now seed to be able to ke so use of his shield, and he certainly de good use of his feet. He was alst pying Tig with Miraz now, keeping out e, shifting his ground, king the ene work.
quot;ward!quot; booed the Telrines. quot;Why dont you stand up to hi Dont you like it, eh?
Thought youd e to fight, not dance. Yah!”
quot;Oh, I do hope he wont listen to thequot; said Caspian.
quot;Not he,quot; said Ednd. quot;You dont know hi- Oh!quot; for Miraz had got in a blow at st, oers he. Peter staggered, slipped sideways, and fell on one khe roar of the Telrines rose like the noise of the sea. quot;Now, Miraz,quot; they yelled. quot;Now. Quick!
Quick! Kill hiquot; But ihere was o egg the usurper on. He was on top of Peter already. Ednd bit his lips till the blood ca, as the sword fshed down oer. It looked as if it would ssh off his head. Thank heaens! It had gnced down his right shoulder. The Dwarf-wrought il was sound and did not break.
quot;Greattt!quot; cried Ednd. quot;Hes up agaier, go it, Peter.”
quot;uldnt see what happened,quot; said the Doctor. quot;How did he do it?”
quot;Grabbed Mirazs aras it ca do;quot; said Trukin, dang with delight. quot;Theres a n for you! Uses his enes aras a dder. The High King! The High King! Up, Old Narnia!”
quot;Look,quot; said Trufflehunter. quot;Miraz is angry. It is good.quot; They were certainly at it haer and tongs now: such a flurry of blows that it seed iossible for either not to be killed.
As the et grew, the shouting alst died away. The spectators were holding their breath. It was st horrible and st gnifit.
A great shout arose frothe Old Narnians. Miraz was a down - not struck by Peter, but face downwards, haing tripped on a tussock. Peter stepped back, waiting for hito rise.
quot;Oh bother, bother, bother,quot; said Ednd to hielf. quot;Need he be as gentlenly as all that? I suppose he st. es of being a Knight and a High King. I suppose it is what Asn would like. But that brute will be up again in a n;bdo..;/bdoute and then -”
But quot;that brutequot; neer rose. The Llozelle and Sopespian had their own  ns ready.
As soon as they saw their King down they leaped into the lists g, quot;Treachery!
Treachery! The Narnian traitor has stabbed hiin the back while he y helpless. To ar! To ar, Telr!”
Peter hardly uood what was happening. He saw two big n running towards hiwith drawn swords. Thehird Telrine had leaped oer the ropes on his; left. quot;To ar, Narnia! Treachery!quot; Peter shouted. If all three had set upon hiat once he would neer hae spoken again. But Glozelle stopped to stab his own King dead where he y: quot;Thats for your insu, this quot; he whispered as the bde went ho. Peter swung to face Sopespian, sshed his legs frounder hiand, with the back-bsp; of the sa stroke, ed off his head Ednd was now at his side g, quot;Narnia, Narnia! The Lion!quot; The whole Telrine ar was rushing toward the But now the Giant was staing forward, stooping low and swinging his club. The taurs charged. Twang,
twang behind and hiss, hiss oerhead ca the archery of Dwarfs. Trukin was fighting at his left. Full battle was joined.
quot;e back, Reepicheep, you little ass!quot; shouted Peter. quot;Youll only be killed. This is no pice.quot; But the ridiculous little creatures were dang in and out ang the feet of both ares, jabbing with their swords. Many a Telrine warrior that day fe his foot suddenly pierced as if by a dozen skewers, hopped on one leg cursing the  ain, and fell as often as not. If he fell, the ce finished hioff; if he did not, soone else did.
But alst before the Old Narnians were really ward to their work they found the ene giing way. Toughlooking warriors turned white, gazed in terror not on the Old Narnians but on sothing behind the and then flung down their ons, shrieking, quot;The Wood! The Wood! The end of the world!”
But sooher their cries nor the sound of onuld be heard any re, for both were drowned in the o-like roar of the Awakerees as they pluhrough the ranks of Peters ar, and then on, in pursuit of the Telrines. Hae you eer stood at the edge of a great wood on a high ridge when a wild south-wester broke oer it in full fury on an autu eening? Igihat sound. And then igihat the wood, instead of being fied to one pce, was rushing at you; and was no lorees but huge people; yet still like trees because their long ar waed like branches and their heads tossed and leaes fell round thein showers. It was like that for the Telrines. It was a little arng een for the Narnians. In a few nutes all Mirazs followers were running down to the Great Rier in the hope of crossing the bridge to the town of Beruna and there defending theeles behind raarts and closed gates.
They reached the rier, but there was had disappeared sinbsp; yesterday. Then utter panid horror fell upon theand they all surrendered.
But what had happeo the bridge?
Early that after a few hours sleep, the girls habbr;/abbrd waked, to see Asn standiheand to hear his oice saying, quot;We will ke holiday.quot; They rubbed their eyes and looked round the The trees had all guld still be seen ing away towards Asns How in a dark ss. Bahus and the Maenads - his fierbsp; dcap girls - and Silenus were still with the Lucy, fully rested, jued up. Eeryone was awake, eeryone was ughing, flutes were pying, cyals g. Anils, not Talking Anils, were crowding in upon thefroeery dire.
quot;What is it, Asn?quot; said Lucy, her eyes dang and her feet wanting to dance.
quot;e, children,quot; said he. quot;Ride on back again today.”
quot;Oh, loely!quot; cried Lucy, and both girls clied on to the wargolden babsp; as they had done no one knew how ny years before. Then the whole party ed off Asn
leading, Bahus and his Maenads leaping, rushing, and turning sorsaus, the beasts frisking round the and Silenus and his donkey bringing up the rear.
They turned a little to the right, raced down a steep hill, and found the long Bridge of Beruna in front of the Before they had begun to cross it, howeer, up out of the water ca a great wet, bearded head, rger than a ns, ed with rushes. It looked at Asn and out of its uth a deep oice ca.
quot;Hail, Lord,quot; it said. quot;Loose s.”
quot;Who oh is that?quot; whispered Susan.
quot;I think its the rier-god, but hush,quot; said Lucy.
quot;Bahus,quot; said Asn. quot;Delier hifrohis s.”
quot;That ans the bridge, I epect,quot; thought Lucy. And so it did. Bahus and his people spshed forward into the shallow water, and a er the st curious things began happening. Great, strong trunks of iy ca curling up all the piers of the bridge, growing as quickly as a fire grows, ing the stones round, splitting, breaking, separating the The walls of the bridge turned into hedges gay with hawthorn for a nt and then disappeared as the whole thing with a rush and a rule nbslpsed into the swirling water. With ch spshing, sg, and ughter the reellers waded or swaor danced across the ford (quot;Hurrah! Its the Ford of Beruna again no;quot; cried the girls) and up the bank on the far side and into the town.
Eeryone ireets fled before their faces. The first house they bsp; to was a school: a girls school, where lot of Narnian girls, with their hair done ery tight and ugly tighlrs round their necks and thick tickly stogs on their legs, were haing a history lesson. The sort of quot;Historyquot; that was taught in Narnia under Mirazs rule was duller tharuest history you eer read arue tha eg adeory.
quot;If you dont attend, Gwendolen,quot; said the stress, and stop looking out of the window, I shall hae to gie you an order-rk.”
quot;But please, Miss Prizzle -quot; began Gwendolen.
quot;Did you hear what I said, Gwendolen?quot; asked Miss Prizzle.
quot;But please, Miss Prizzle,quot; said Gwendolen, quot;theres a LION!”
quot;Take two order-rks for talking nonsense,quot; said Miss Prizzle. quot;And no;quot; A roar interrupted her. Iy c;sa;/saa curling in at the windows of the cssroo The walls beca a ss of shiering green, and leafy branches arched oerhead where the ceiling had been. Miss Prizzle found she was standing on grass in a forest gde. She clutched at her desk to steady herself, and found that the desk was a rose-bush. Wild  eople such as she
had neer een igined were crowding rouhen she saw the Lion, scread and fled, and with her fled her css, who were stly duy, prilittle girls with fat legs.
Gweed.
quot;Youll stay with us, sweetheart?quot; said Asn.
quot;Oh, y I? Thank you, thank you,quot; said Gwendolen. Instantly she joined hands with two of the Maenads, who whirled her round in a rry dand helped her take off so of the unnecessary and unfortable clothes that she was wearing.
Whereer they went itle town of Beruna it was the sa. Most of the people fled, a few joihe When they left the town they were a rger and a rrier  any.
They swept on across the leel fields on the north bank, or left bank, of the rier. At eery faranils ca out to join the Sad old donkeys who had neer known joy grew suddenly young again; ed dogs broke their s; horses kicked their carts to pieces and ca trotting along with the- clop-clop - kig up the d and whinnying.
At a well in a yard they t a n who was beating a boy. The stick burst into flower in the ns hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arnbsp; beca a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. The boy, who had been g a nt before, burst out ughing and joihe
At a little town half-way to Beaersda where two riers t, they ca to another school, where a tiredlooking girl was teag arithtic to a nuer of boys who looked ery like pigs. She looked out of the window and saw the diine reellers singing up the street and a stab of joy went through her heart. Asn stopped right uhe window and looked up at her.
quot;Oh, dont, dont,quot; she said. quot;Id loe to. But I stnt. I st stiy work. And the children would be frightened if they saw you.”
quhtened?quot; said the st pig-like of the boys. quot;Whos she talking to out of the window? Lets tell the ior she talks to people out of the window when she ought to be teag us.”
quot;Lets go and see who it is,quot; said another boy, and they all ca crowding to the window.
But as soon as their an little faces looked out, Bahus gae a great bsp; of Euan, euoi-oi-oi-of and the boys all began howling with fright and traling one another down to get out of the door and juing out of the windows. And it was said afterwards (whether truly or not) that those particur little boys were neer seen again, but that there were a lot of ery fitle pigs in that part of the try which had neer been there before.
quot;Now, Dear Heart,quot; said Asn to the Mistress, and she jued down and joihe
At Beaersdathey re-crossed the rier and ca east again along the southern bank.
They ca to a litttage where a child stood in the doorway g. quot;Why are y, loe?quot; asked Asn. The child, who had neer seen a picture of a lion, was not afraid of hi quot;Aunties ery ill,quot; she said. quot;Shes going to die.quot; Then Aso go in at the door of thttage, but it was too sll for hi So, when he had got his head through, he pushed with his shoulders (Lud Susan fell off when he did this) and lifted the whole house up and it fell backwards and apart. And there, still in her bed, though the bed was now in the open air, y a little old won who looked as if she had Dwarf blood in her. She was at deaths door, but when she opened her eyes and saw the bright, hairy head of the lion staring into her face, she did not screaor faint. She said, quot;Oh, Asn! I k was true. Ie been waiting for this all life. Hae you e to take away?”
quot;Yes, Dearest,quot; said Asn. quot;But not the long journey yet.quot; And as he spoke, like the flush creeping along the underside of a cloud at suhlour ca back to her white fad her eyes grew bright and she sat up and said, quot;Why, I do decre I feel that better. I think uld take a little breakfast this ”
quot;Here you are, ther,quot; said Bahus, dipping a pitcher itage well and handing it to her. But what was in it now was not water but the richest wine, red as red-currant jelly, soth as oil, strong as beef, warng as teaol as dew.
quot;Eh, youe dohing to our well,quot; said the old won. quot;That kes a nice ge, that does.quot; And she jued out of bed.
quot;Ride on ,quot; said Asn, and added to Susan and Lucy, quot;You two queens will hae to run now.”
quot;But wed like that just as well,quot; said Susan. And off they went again.
And so at st, with leaping and dang and singing, with sid ughter and r and barking and neighing, they all ca to the pce where Mirazs ar stood flinging down their swords and holding up their hands, aers ar, still holding their ons and breathing hard, stood round thewith stern and gd faces. And the first thing that happened was that the old won slipped off Asns bad ran across to Caspian and they eraced one another; for she was his old nurse.
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