16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
16:4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
16:6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
16:7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
16:13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
16:14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
16:20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;) 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
16:27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
16:28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! 16:33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; 16:37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
16:39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
16:52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
16:53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 16:57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
17:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; 17:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: 17:4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
17:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; 17:13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: 17:14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 17:16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: 17:18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
17:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
17:21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
17:22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 17:23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
18:1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 18:3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, 18:7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; 18:8 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, 18:9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, 18:11 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, 18:12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, 18:13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, 18:15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, 18:16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, 18:17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
18:19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
19:9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
19:12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
19:13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
19:14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
20:2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 20:3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
20:4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: 20:5 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 20:6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: 20:7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: 20:19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
20:23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 20:26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
20:29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 20:34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
20:35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
20:36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 20:38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
20:41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
20:42 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
20:44 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
20:45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 20:46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; 20:47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
20:48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
20:49 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? 21:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 21:5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
21:6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
21:7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
21:14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
21:15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
21:16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
21:17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
21:18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, 21:19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
21:20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
21:22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
21:23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
21:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
21:25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, 21:26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
21:28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering: 21:29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
21:30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
21:31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
21:32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
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22:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 23:23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
23:24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
23:30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, 23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
23:43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 23:44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; 24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
24:12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? 24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 25:3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 25:7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
22:7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
22:10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
22:16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
22:17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
22:21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22:24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
22:31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, 23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
23:10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 23:14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 23:15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: 23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
23:20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
23:22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 23:23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
23:24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
23:25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
23:27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: 23:29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
23:30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
23:32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
23:36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
23:38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
23:40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, 23:41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
23:42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
23:43 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 23:44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
23:46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.
24:3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: 24:4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; 24:8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
24:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
24:10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
24:12 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
24:13 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.
24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? 24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 25:2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 25:3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 25:4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 25:7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim, 25:10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
25:11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:7 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
26:8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
26:9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
26:12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
26:13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
26:14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
26:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! 26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
26:19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; 26:20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 26:21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
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No tak snad už to crackera bobavilo, spíš ale asi ne....
No já vidět online útok na sám sebe.... tak mě to asi dostane.... asi bych pc vypnul... a pak ho tajně zapnul
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Kurfa to má bejt film nebo co do prdele... to je masoooooooo
Tenhle příběh má smysl poslouchat....
No já vidět online útok na sám sebe.... tak mě to asi dostane.... asi bych pc vypnul... a pak ho tajně zapnul
Jo zálohy mam, ale stejně proč bych měl kvůli někomu atd..... atd atd..... ani tu zálohu lidi nepřiznaj..... až takový jsou lidi svině....
radši tě zabijou, aby přežili....
Kurfa to má bejt film nebo co do prdele... to je masoooooooo
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Takže celý tohle je hovadina..... a to naprostá..."""kuRVA""""
je to prostě tak...
No je to o to m co ty chceš.... kamery...
Nebo co nechceš... A KAMERY..
ps NMYSLI SI ŽE TO NĚKOHO Zajímíá,,, kravina.....
kurfa do prdele proč tu tsk šukáte do prdele......
ne já můžu za to šukaj do prdele do prdele.....
kurva kdo by řek že je ten magor tak uchylnej ..... je to magor bacha na nešj,,,.
je to prostě tak...
No je to o to m co ty chceš.... kamery...
Nebo co nechceš... A KAMERY..
ps NMYSLI SI ŽE TO NĚKOHO Zajímíá,,, kravina.....
kurfa do prdele proč tu tsk šukáte do prdele......
ne já můžu za to šukaj do prdele do prdele.....
kurva kdo by řek že je ten magor tak uchylnej ..... je to magor bacha na nešj,,,.
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No mě nqpadnul taky.... ale nemá info
zasranej corona vir,,,,
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Ty vole možná manželka... jako že jede v nějaký úchylny CIRKVIi.... kurfa,,,,,....
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Také bychom mohli začíít nový seriál - moje oblíbené 
C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles Of Narnia
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
BY
C.S.LEWIS
CHAPTER ONE
LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE
ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This
story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London
during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor
who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two
miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with
a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret
and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man
with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they
liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the
front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of
him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on
pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night,
the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over.
"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly
splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."
"I think he's an old dear," said Susan.
"Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which
always made him bad-tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."
"Like what?" said Susan; "and anyway, it's time you were in bed."
"Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to
bed? Go to bed yourself."
"Hadn’t we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we’re heard
talking here."
"No there won't," said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to
mind what we do. Anyway, they won’t hear us. It's about ten minutes' walk from here
down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between."
"What's that noise?" said Lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house than she had ever been
in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty
rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy.
"It’s only a bird, silly," said Edmund.
"It’s an owl," said Peter. "This is going to be a wonderful place for birds. I shall go to bed
now. I say, let's go and explore tomorrow. You might find anything in a place like this.
Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be eagles.
There might be stags. There’ll be hawks."
"Badgers!" said Lucy.
"Foxes!" said Edmund.
"Rabbits!" said Susan.
But when next morning came there was a steady rain falling, so thick that when you
looked out of the window you could see neither the mountains nor the woods nor even
the stream in the garden.
"Of course it would be raining!" said Edmund. They had just finished their breakfast with
the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them - a long, low room
with two windows looking out in one direction and two in another.
"Do stop grumbling, Ed," said Susan. "Ten to one it'll clear up in an hour or so. And in
the meantime we're pretty well off. There's a wireless and lots of books."
"Not for me"said Peter; "I'm going to explore in the house."
Everyone agreed to this and that was how the adventures began. It was the sort of house
that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. The first
few doors they tried led only into spare bedrooms, as everyone had expected that they
would; but soon they came to a very long room full of pictures and there they found a suit
of armour; and after that was a room all hung with green, with a harp in one corner; and
then came three steps down and five steps up, and then a kind of little upstairs hall and a
door that led out on to a balcony, and then a whole series of rooms that led into each
other and were lined with books - most of them very old books and some bigger than a
Bible in a church. And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty
except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was
nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.
"Nothing there!" said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed
behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even
though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily,
and two moth-balls dropped out.
Looking into the inside, she saw several coats hanging up - mostly long fur coats. There
was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped
into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving
the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any
wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats
hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms
stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She
took a step further in - then two or three steps always expecting to feel woodwork against
the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it.
"This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy, going still further in and
pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there
was something crunching under her feet. "I wonder is that more mothballs?" she thought,
stooping down to feel it with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of
the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This
is very queer," she said, and went on a step or two further.
Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer
soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly. "Why, it is just like branches of
trees!" exclaimed Lucy. And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few
inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off.
Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was
standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes
falling through the air.
Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked
back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the
open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which
she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly
thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always
get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-
crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes
she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why
there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard
a pitter patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person
stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post.
He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella,
white with snow. From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped
like a goafs (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goafs hoofs.
He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up
over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow. He had a
red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange,
but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there
stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead. One of his hands, as I have said, held
the umbrella: in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. What with the
parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping. He
was a Faun. And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all
his parcels.
"Goodness gracious me!" exclaimed the Faun.
C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles Of Narnia
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
BY
C.S.LEWIS
CHAPTER ONE
LUCY LOOKS INTO A WARDROBE
ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This
story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London
during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor
who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two
miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with
a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret
and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man
with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they
liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the
front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of
him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on
pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.
As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night,
the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over.
"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly
splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."
"I think he's an old dear," said Susan.
"Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which
always made him bad-tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."
"Like what?" said Susan; "and anyway, it's time you were in bed."
"Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to
bed? Go to bed yourself."
"Hadn’t we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we’re heard
talking here."
"No there won't," said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to
mind what we do. Anyway, they won’t hear us. It's about ten minutes' walk from here
down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between."
"What's that noise?" said Lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house than she had ever been
in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading into empty
rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy.
"It’s only a bird, silly," said Edmund.
"It’s an owl," said Peter. "This is going to be a wonderful place for birds. I shall go to bed
now. I say, let's go and explore tomorrow. You might find anything in a place like this.
Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be eagles.
There might be stags. There’ll be hawks."
"Badgers!" said Lucy.
"Foxes!" said Edmund.
"Rabbits!" said Susan.
But when next morning came there was a steady rain falling, so thick that when you
looked out of the window you could see neither the mountains nor the woods nor even
the stream in the garden.
"Of course it would be raining!" said Edmund. They had just finished their breakfast with
the Professor and were upstairs in the room he had set apart for them - a long, low room
with two windows looking out in one direction and two in another.
"Do stop grumbling, Ed," said Susan. "Ten to one it'll clear up in an hour or so. And in
the meantime we're pretty well off. There's a wireless and lots of books."
"Not for me"said Peter; "I'm going to explore in the house."
Everyone agreed to this and that was how the adventures began. It was the sort of house
that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places. The first
few doors they tried led only into spare bedrooms, as everyone had expected that they
would; but soon they came to a very long room full of pictures and there they found a suit
of armour; and after that was a room all hung with green, with a harp in one corner; and
then came three steps down and five steps up, and then a kind of little upstairs hall and a
door that led out on to a balcony, and then a whole series of rooms that led into each
other and were lined with books - most of them very old books and some bigger than a
Bible in a church. And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty
except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door. There was
nothing else in the room at all except a dead blue-bottle on the window-sill.
"Nothing there!" said Peter, and they all trooped out again - all except Lucy. She stayed
behind because she thought it would be worth while trying the door of the wardrobe, even
though she felt almost sure that it would be locked. To her surprise it opened quite easily,
and two moth-balls dropped out.
Looking into the inside, she saw several coats hanging up - mostly long fur coats. There
was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped
into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving
the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any
wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats
hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms
stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She
took a step further in - then two or three steps always expecting to feel woodwork against
the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it.
"This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!" thought Lucy, going still further in and
pushing the soft folds of the coats aside to make room for her. Then she noticed that there
was something crunching under her feet. "I wonder is that more mothballs?" she thought,
stooping down to feel it with her hand. But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of
the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This
is very queer," she said, and went on a step or two further.
Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer
soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly. "Why, it is just like branches of
trees!" exclaimed Lucy. And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few
inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off.
Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was
standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes
falling through the air.
Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked
back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the
open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which
she had set out. (She had, of course, left the door open, for she knew that it is a very silly
thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. "I can always
get back if anything goes wrong," thought Lucy. She began to walk forward, crunch-
crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes
she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why
there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard
a pitter patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person
stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post.
He was only a little taller than Lucy herself and he carried over his head an umbrella,
white with snow. From the waist upwards he was like a man, but his legs were shaped
like a goafs (the hair on them was glossy black) and instead of feet he had goafs hoofs.
He also had a tail, but Lucy did not notice this at first because it was neatly caught up
over the arm that held the umbrella so as to keep it from trailing in the snow. He had a
red woollen muffler round his neck and his skin was rather reddish too. He had a strange,
but pleasant little face, with a short pointed beard and curly hair, and out of the hair there
stuck two horns, one on each side of his forehead. One of his hands, as I have said, held
the umbrella: in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels. What with the
parcels and the snow it looked just as if he had been doing his Christmas shopping. He
was a Faun. And when he saw Lucy he gave such a start of surprise that he dropped all
his parcels.
"Goodness gracious me!" exclaimed the Faun.
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CHAPTER TWO
WHAT LUCY FOUND THERE
"GOOD EVENING," said Lucy. But the Faun was so busy picking up its parcels that at
first it did not reply. When it had finished it made her a little bow.
"Good evening, good evening," said the Faun. "Excuse me -1 don’t want to be inquisitive
- but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?"
"My name’s Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.
"But you are - forgive me - you are what they call a girl?" said the Faun.
"Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy.
"You are in fact Human?"
"Of course I’m human," said Lucy, still a little puzzled.
"To be sure, to be sure," said the Faun. "How stupid of me! But I’ve never seen a Son of
Adam or a Daughter of Eve before. I am delighted. That is to say and then it stopped as
if it had been going to say something it had not intended but had remembered in time.
"Delighted, delighted," it went on. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."
"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy.
"And may I ask, O Lucy Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "how you have come into
Narnia?"
"Narnia? What’s that?" said Lucy.
"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the
lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you - you have
come from the wild woods of the west?"
I -1 got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.
"Ah!" said Mr Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice, "if only I had worked harder at
geography when I was a little Faun, I should no doubt know all about those strange
countries. It is too late now."
"But they aren’t countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing. "It's only just back there - at
least - I'm not sure. It is summer there."
"Meanwhile," said Mr Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and
we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the
far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe,
how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"
"Thank you very much, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But I was wondering whether I ought
to be getting back."
"It’s only just round the corner," said the Faun, "and there’ll be a roaring fire - and toast -
and sardines - and cake."
"Well, it's very kind of you," said Lucy. "But I shan’t be able to stay long."
"If you will take my arm, Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "I shall be able to hold the
umbrella over both of us. That's the way. Now - off we go."
And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood arm in arm with this strange
creature as if they had known one another all their lives.
They had not gone far before they came to a place where the ground became rough and
there were rocks all about and little hills up and little hills down. At the bottom of one
small valley Mr Tumnus turned suddenly aside as if he were going to walk straight into
an unusually large rock, but at the last moment Lucy found he was leading her into the
entrance of a cave. As soon as they were inside she found herself blinking in the light of a
wood fire. Then Mr Tumnus stooped and took a flaming piece of wood out of the fire
with a neat little pair of tongs, and lit a lamp. "Now we shan’t be long," he said, and
immediately put a kettle on.
Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place. It was a little, dry, clean cave of
reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs ("one for me and one for a
friend," said Mr Tumnus) and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire and
above that a picture of an old Faun with a grey beard. In one corner there was a door
which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full
of books. Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things. They had titles like
The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks and
Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?
'Now, Daughter of Eve!" said the Faun.
And really it was a wonderful tea. There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of
them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and
then a sugar-topped cake. And when Lucy was tired of eating the Faun began to talk. He
had wonderful tales to tell of life in the forest. He told about the midnight dances and
how the Nymphs who lived in the wells and the Dryads who lived in the trees came out to
dance with the Fauns; about long hunting parties after the milk-white stag who could give
you wishes if you caught him; about feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild Red
Dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor; and then about summer
when the woods were green and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them,
and sometimes Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of
water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. "Not
that it isn't always winter now," he added gloomily. Then to cheer himself up he took out
from its case on the dresser a strange little flute that looked as if it were made of straw
and began to play. And the tune he played made Lucy want to cry and laugh and dance
and go to sleep all at the same time. It must have been hours later when she shook herself
and said:
"Oh, Mr Tumnus - I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune - but really, I must go
home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
"It’s no good now, you know," said the Faun, laying down its flute and shaking its head at
her very sorrowfully.
"No good?" said Lucy, jumping up and feeling rather frightened. "What do you mean?
I've got to go home at once. The others will be wondering what has happened to me." But
a moment later she asked, "Mr Tumnus! Whatever is the matter?" for the Faun's brown
eyes had filled with tears and then the tears began trickling down its cheeks, and soon
they were running off the end of its nose; and at last it covered its face with its hands and
began to howl.
"Mr Tumnus! Mr Tumnus!" said Lucy in great distress. "Don’t! Don't! What is the
matter? Aren’ you well? Dear Mr Tumnus, do tell me what is wrong." But the Faun
continued sobbing as if its heart would break. And even when Lucy went over and put
her arms round him and lent him her hand kerchief, he did not stop. He merely took the
handker chief and kept on using it, wringing it out with both hands whenever it got too
wet to be any more use, so that presently Lucy was standing in a damp patch.
"Mr Tumnus!" bawled Lucy in his ear, shaking him. "Do stop. Stop it at once! You ought
to be ashamed of yourself, a great big Faun like you. What on earth are you crying
about?"
"Oh - oh - oh!" sobbed Mr Tumnus, "I'm crying because I'm such a bad Faun."
"I don't think you're a bad Faun at all," said Lucy. "I think you are a very good Faun. You
are the nicest Faun I’ve ever met."
"Oh - oh - you wouldn’t say that if you knew," replied Mr Tumnus between his sobs. "No,
I'm a bad Faun. I don’t suppose there ever was a worse Faun since the beginning of the
world."
"But what have you done?" asked Lucy.
"My old father, now," said Mr Tumnus; "that’s his picture over the mantelpiece. He
would never have done a thing like this."
"A thing like what?" said Lucy.
"Like what I’ve done," said the Faun. "Taken service under the White Witch. That’s what
I am. I’m in the pay of the White Witch."
"The White Witch? Who is she?"
"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It’s she that makes it always
winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!"
"How awful!" said Lucy. "But what does she pay you for?"
"That’s the worst of it," said Mr Tumnus with a deep groan. "I’m a kidnapper for her,
that’s what I am. Look at me, Daughter of Eve. Would you believe that I’m the sort of
Faun to meet a poor innocent child in the wood, one that had never done me any harm,
and pretend to be friendly with it, and invite it home to my cave, all for the sake of lulling
it asleep and then handing it over to the White Witch?"
"No," said Lucy. "I’m sure you wouldn’t do anything of the sort."
"But I have," said the Faun.
"Well," said Lucy rather slowly (for she wanted to be truthful and yet not be too hard on
him), "well, that was pretty bad. But you're so sorry for it that I'm sure you will never do
it again."
"Daughter of Eve, don’t you understand?" said the Faun. "It isn’t something I have done.
I'm doing it now, this very moment."
"What do you mean?" cried Lucy, turning very white.
"You are the child," said Tumnus. "I had orders from the White Witch that if ever I saw a
Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the wood, I was to catch them and hand them over
to her. And you are the first I've ever met. And I've pretended to be your friend an asked
you to tea, and all the time I've been meaning to wait till you were asleep and then go and
tell Her."
"Oh, but you won't, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "Yo won't, will you? Indeed, indeed you
really mustn't."
"And if I don't," said he, beginning to cry again "she's sure to find out. And she’ll have
my tail cut off and my horns sawn off, and my beard plucked out, and she’ll wave her
wand over my beautiful clove hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like wretched
horse's. And if she is extra and specially angry she’ll turn me into stone and I shall be
only statue of a Faun in her horrible house until the four thrones at Cair Paravel are filled
and goodness knows when that will happen, or whether it will ever happen at all."
"I'm very sorry, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But please let me go home."
"Of course I will," said the Faun. "Of course I've got to. I see that now. I hadn't known
what Humans were like before I met you. Of course I can't give you up to the Witch; not
now that I know you. But we must be off at once. I'll see you back to the lamp-post. I
suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?"
"I'm sure I can," said Lucy.
"We must go as quietly as we can," said Mr Tumnus. "The whole wood is full of her
spies. Even some of the trees are on her side."
They both got up and left the tea things on the table, and Mr Tumnus once more put up
his umbrella and gave Lucy his arm, and they went out into the snow. The journey back
was not at all like the journey to the Faun's cave; they stole along as quickly as they
could, without speaking a word, and Mr Tumnus kept to the darkest places. Lucy was
relieved when they reached the lamp-post again.
"Do you know your way from here, Daughter o Eve?" said Tumnus.
Lucy looked very hard between the trees and could just see in the distance a patch of light
that looked like daylight. "Yes," she said, "I can see the wardrobe door."
"Then be off home as quick as you can," said the Faun, "and - c-can you ever forgive me
for what meant to do?"
"Why, of course I can," said Lucy, shaking him heartily by the hand. "And I do hope you
won't get into dreadful trouble on my account."
"Farewell, Daughter of Eve," said he. "Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?"
"Rather!" said Lucy, and then ran towards the far off patch of daylight as quickly as her
legs would carry her. And presently instead of rough branch brushing past her she felt
coats, and instead of crunching snow under her feet she felt wooden board and all at once
she found herself jumping out of the wardrobe into the same empty room from which the
whole adventure had started. She shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked
around, panting for breath. It was still raining and she could hear the voices of the others
in the passage.
"I'm here," she shouted. "I'm here. I've come back I'm all right."
WHAT LUCY FOUND THERE
"GOOD EVENING," said Lucy. But the Faun was so busy picking up its parcels that at
first it did not reply. When it had finished it made her a little bow.
"Good evening, good evening," said the Faun. "Excuse me -1 don’t want to be inquisitive
- but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?"
"My name’s Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.
"But you are - forgive me - you are what they call a girl?" said the Faun.
"Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy.
"You are in fact Human?"
"Of course I’m human," said Lucy, still a little puzzled.
"To be sure, to be sure," said the Faun. "How stupid of me! But I’ve never seen a Son of
Adam or a Daughter of Eve before. I am delighted. That is to say and then it stopped as
if it had been going to say something it had not intended but had remembered in time.
"Delighted, delighted," it went on. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."
"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy.
"And may I ask, O Lucy Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "how you have come into
Narnia?"
"Narnia? What’s that?" said Lucy.
"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the
lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you - you have
come from the wild woods of the west?"
I -1 got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.
"Ah!" said Mr Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice, "if only I had worked harder at
geography when I was a little Faun, I should no doubt know all about those strange
countries. It is too late now."
"But they aren’t countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing. "It's only just back there - at
least - I'm not sure. It is summer there."
"Meanwhile," said Mr Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and
we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the
far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe,
how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"
"Thank you very much, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But I was wondering whether I ought
to be getting back."
"It’s only just round the corner," said the Faun, "and there’ll be a roaring fire - and toast -
and sardines - and cake."
"Well, it's very kind of you," said Lucy. "But I shan’t be able to stay long."
"If you will take my arm, Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "I shall be able to hold the
umbrella over both of us. That's the way. Now - off we go."
And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood arm in arm with this strange
creature as if they had known one another all their lives.
They had not gone far before they came to a place where the ground became rough and
there were rocks all about and little hills up and little hills down. At the bottom of one
small valley Mr Tumnus turned suddenly aside as if he were going to walk straight into
an unusually large rock, but at the last moment Lucy found he was leading her into the
entrance of a cave. As soon as they were inside she found herself blinking in the light of a
wood fire. Then Mr Tumnus stooped and took a flaming piece of wood out of the fire
with a neat little pair of tongs, and lit a lamp. "Now we shan’t be long," he said, and
immediately put a kettle on.
Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place. It was a little, dry, clean cave of
reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs ("one for me and one for a
friend," said Mr Tumnus) and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire and
above that a picture of an old Faun with a grey beard. In one corner there was a door
which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full
of books. Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things. They had titles like
The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks and
Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?
'Now, Daughter of Eve!" said the Faun.
And really it was a wonderful tea. There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of
them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and
then a sugar-topped cake. And when Lucy was tired of eating the Faun began to talk. He
had wonderful tales to tell of life in the forest. He told about the midnight dances and
how the Nymphs who lived in the wells and the Dryads who lived in the trees came out to
dance with the Fauns; about long hunting parties after the milk-white stag who could give
you wishes if you caught him; about feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild Red
Dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor; and then about summer
when the woods were green and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them,
and sometimes Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of
water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. "Not
that it isn't always winter now," he added gloomily. Then to cheer himself up he took out
from its case on the dresser a strange little flute that looked as if it were made of straw
and began to play. And the tune he played made Lucy want to cry and laugh and dance
and go to sleep all at the same time. It must have been hours later when she shook herself
and said:
"Oh, Mr Tumnus - I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune - but really, I must go
home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."
"It’s no good now, you know," said the Faun, laying down its flute and shaking its head at
her very sorrowfully.
"No good?" said Lucy, jumping up and feeling rather frightened. "What do you mean?
I've got to go home at once. The others will be wondering what has happened to me." But
a moment later she asked, "Mr Tumnus! Whatever is the matter?" for the Faun's brown
eyes had filled with tears and then the tears began trickling down its cheeks, and soon
they were running off the end of its nose; and at last it covered its face with its hands and
began to howl.
"Mr Tumnus! Mr Tumnus!" said Lucy in great distress. "Don’t! Don't! What is the
matter? Aren’ you well? Dear Mr Tumnus, do tell me what is wrong." But the Faun
continued sobbing as if its heart would break. And even when Lucy went over and put
her arms round him and lent him her hand kerchief, he did not stop. He merely took the
handker chief and kept on using it, wringing it out with both hands whenever it got too
wet to be any more use, so that presently Lucy was standing in a damp patch.
"Mr Tumnus!" bawled Lucy in his ear, shaking him. "Do stop. Stop it at once! You ought
to be ashamed of yourself, a great big Faun like you. What on earth are you crying
about?"
"Oh - oh - oh!" sobbed Mr Tumnus, "I'm crying because I'm such a bad Faun."
"I don't think you're a bad Faun at all," said Lucy. "I think you are a very good Faun. You
are the nicest Faun I’ve ever met."
"Oh - oh - you wouldn’t say that if you knew," replied Mr Tumnus between his sobs. "No,
I'm a bad Faun. I don’t suppose there ever was a worse Faun since the beginning of the
world."
"But what have you done?" asked Lucy.
"My old father, now," said Mr Tumnus; "that’s his picture over the mantelpiece. He
would never have done a thing like this."
"A thing like what?" said Lucy.
"Like what I’ve done," said the Faun. "Taken service under the White Witch. That’s what
I am. I’m in the pay of the White Witch."
"The White Witch? Who is she?"
"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It’s she that makes it always
winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!"
"How awful!" said Lucy. "But what does she pay you for?"
"That’s the worst of it," said Mr Tumnus with a deep groan. "I’m a kidnapper for her,
that’s what I am. Look at me, Daughter of Eve. Would you believe that I’m the sort of
Faun to meet a poor innocent child in the wood, one that had never done me any harm,
and pretend to be friendly with it, and invite it home to my cave, all for the sake of lulling
it asleep and then handing it over to the White Witch?"
"No," said Lucy. "I’m sure you wouldn’t do anything of the sort."
"But I have," said the Faun.
"Well," said Lucy rather slowly (for she wanted to be truthful and yet not be too hard on
him), "well, that was pretty bad. But you're so sorry for it that I'm sure you will never do
it again."
"Daughter of Eve, don’t you understand?" said the Faun. "It isn’t something I have done.
I'm doing it now, this very moment."
"What do you mean?" cried Lucy, turning very white.
"You are the child," said Tumnus. "I had orders from the White Witch that if ever I saw a
Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the wood, I was to catch them and hand them over
to her. And you are the first I've ever met. And I've pretended to be your friend an asked
you to tea, and all the time I've been meaning to wait till you were asleep and then go and
tell Her."
"Oh, but you won't, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "Yo won't, will you? Indeed, indeed you
really mustn't."
"And if I don't," said he, beginning to cry again "she's sure to find out. And she’ll have
my tail cut off and my horns sawn off, and my beard plucked out, and she’ll wave her
wand over my beautiful clove hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like wretched
horse's. And if she is extra and specially angry she’ll turn me into stone and I shall be
only statue of a Faun in her horrible house until the four thrones at Cair Paravel are filled
and goodness knows when that will happen, or whether it will ever happen at all."
"I'm very sorry, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But please let me go home."
"Of course I will," said the Faun. "Of course I've got to. I see that now. I hadn't known
what Humans were like before I met you. Of course I can't give you up to the Witch; not
now that I know you. But we must be off at once. I'll see you back to the lamp-post. I
suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?"
"I'm sure I can," said Lucy.
"We must go as quietly as we can," said Mr Tumnus. "The whole wood is full of her
spies. Even some of the trees are on her side."
They both got up and left the tea things on the table, and Mr Tumnus once more put up
his umbrella and gave Lucy his arm, and they went out into the snow. The journey back
was not at all like the journey to the Faun's cave; they stole along as quickly as they
could, without speaking a word, and Mr Tumnus kept to the darkest places. Lucy was
relieved when they reached the lamp-post again.
"Do you know your way from here, Daughter o Eve?" said Tumnus.
Lucy looked very hard between the trees and could just see in the distance a patch of light
that looked like daylight. "Yes," she said, "I can see the wardrobe door."
"Then be off home as quick as you can," said the Faun, "and - c-can you ever forgive me
for what meant to do?"
"Why, of course I can," said Lucy, shaking him heartily by the hand. "And I do hope you
won't get into dreadful trouble on my account."
"Farewell, Daughter of Eve," said he. "Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?"
"Rather!" said Lucy, and then ran towards the far off patch of daylight as quickly as her
legs would carry her. And presently instead of rough branch brushing past her she felt
coats, and instead of crunching snow under her feet she felt wooden board and all at once
she found herself jumping out of the wardrobe into the same empty room from which the
whole adventure had started. She shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked
around, panting for breath. It was still raining and she could hear the voices of the others
in the passage.
"I'm here," she shouted. "I'm here. I've come back I'm all right."
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CHAPTER THREE
EDMUND AND THE WARDROBE
Lucy ran out of the empty room into the passage and found the other three.
"It's all right," she repeated, "I've comeback."
"What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.
"Why? said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?"
"So you've been hiding, have you?" said Peter. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed!
You'll have to hide longer than that if you want people to start looking for you."
"But I've been away for hours and hours," said Lucy.
The others all stared at one another.
"Batty!" said Edmund, tapping his head. "Quite batty."
"What do you mean, Lu?" asked Peter.
"What I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into the wardrobe,
and I've been away for hours and hours, and had tea, and all sorts of things have
happened."
"Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan. "We've only just come out of that room a moment ago,
and you were there then."
"She's not being silly at all," said Peter, "she's just making up a story for fun, aren't you,
Lu? And why shouldn’t she?"
"No, Peter, I'm not," she said. "It's - it's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and
it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a Witch and it's called Narnia; come and see."
The others did not know what to think, but Lucy was so excited that they all went back
with her into the room. She rushed ahead of them, flung open the door of the wardrobe
and cried, "Now! go in and see for yourselves."
"Why, you goose," said Susan, putting her head inside and pulling the fur coats apart, "it's
just an ordinary wardrobe; look! there's the back of it."
Then everyone looked in and pulled the coats apart; and they all saw - Lucy herself saw -
a perfectly ordinary wardrobe. There was no wood and no snow, only the back of the
wardrobe, with hooks on it. Peter went in and rapped his knuckles on it to make sure that
it was solid.
"A jolly good hoax, Lu," he said as he came out again; "you have really taken us in, I
must admit. We half believed you."
"But it wasn't a hoax at all," said Lucy, "really and truly. It was all different a moment
ago. Honestly it was. I promise."
"Come, Lu," said Peter, "that's going a bit far. You've had your joke. Hadn't you better
drop it now?"
Lucy grew very red in the face and tried to say something, though she hardly knew what
she was trying to say, and burst into tears.
For the next few days she was very miserable. She could have made it up with the others
quite easily at any moment if she could have brought herself to say that the whole thing
was only a story made up for fun. But Lucy was a very truthful girl and she knew that she
was really in the right; and she could not bring herself to say this. The others who thought
she was telling a lie, and a silly lie too, made her very unhappy. The two elder ones did
this without meaning to do it, but Edmund could be spiteful, and on this occasion he was
spiteful. He sneered and jeered at Lucy and kept on asking her if she’d found any other
new countries in other cupboards all over the house. What made it worse was that these
days ought to have been delightful. The weather was fine and they were out of doors
from morning to night, bathing, fishing, climbing trees, and lying in the heather. But
Lucy could not properly enjoy any of it. And so things went on until the next wet day.
That day, when it came to the afternoon and there was still no sign of a break in the
weather, they decided to play hide-and-seek. Susan was "It" and as soon as the others
scattered to hide, Lucy went to the room where the wardrobe was. She did not mean to
hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about
the whole wretched business. But she did want to have one more look inside it; for by this
time she was beginning to wonder herself whether Narnia and the Faun had not been a
dream. The house was so large and complicated and full of hiding-places that she thought
she would have time to have one look into the wardrobe and then hide somewhere else.
But as soon as she reached it she heard steps in the passage outside, and then there was
nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe and hold the door closed behind her. She did
not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe,
even if it is not a magic one.
Now the steps she had heard were those of Edmund; and he came into the room just in
time to see Lucy vanishing into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself -
not because he thought it a particularly good place to hide but because he wanted to go on
teasing her about her imaginary country. He opened the door. There were the coats
hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs, and darkness and silence, and no sign of
Lucy. "She thinks I'm Susan come to catch her," said Edmund to himself, "and so she's
keeping very quiet in at the back." He jumped in and shut the door, forgetting what a very
foolish thing this is to do. Then he began feeling about for Lucy in the dark. He had
expected to find her in a few seconds and was very surprised when he did not. He decided
to open the door again and let in some light. But he could not find the door either. He
didn't like this at all and began groping wildly in every direction; he even shouted out,
"Lucy! Lu! Where are you? I know you're here."
There was no answer and Edmund noticed that his own voice had a curious sound - not
the sound you expect in a cupboard, but a kind of open-air sound. He also noticed that he
was unexpectedly cold; and then he saw a light.
"Thank goodness," said Edmund, "the door must have swung open of its own accord." He
forgot all about Lucy and went towards the light, which he thought was the open door of
the wardrobe. But instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found
himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in
the middle of a wood.
There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the
trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in
the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising,
very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in
that country. There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood
stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.
He now remembered that he had been looking for Lucy; and also how unpleasant he had
been to her about her "imaginary country" which now turned out not to have been
imaginary at all. He thought that she must be somewhere quite close and so he shouted,
"Lucy! Lucy! I'm here too-Edmund."
There was no answer.
"She's angry about all the things I've been saying lately," thought Edmund. And though
he did not like to admit that he had been wrong, he also did not much like being alone in
this strange, cold, quiet place; so he shouted again.
"I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn’t believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come
out. Make it Pax."
Still there was no answer.
"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won’t accept an
apology." He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and
had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a
sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept
into sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer.
The reindeer were about the size of Shetland ponies and their hair was so white that even
the snow hardly looked white compared with them; their branching horns were gilded
and shone like something on fire when the sunrise caught them. Their harness was of
scarlet leather and covered with bells. On the sledge, driving the reindeer, sat a fat dwarf
who would have been about three feet high if he had been standing. He was dressed in
polar bear's fur and on his head he wore a red hood with a long gold tassel hanging down
from its point; his huge beard covered his knees and served him instead of a rug. But
behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person -
a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in
white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore
a golden crown on her head. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow or
paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other
respects, but proud and cold and stem.
The sledge was a fine sight as it came sweeping towards Edmund with the bells jingling
and the dwarf cracking his whip and the snow flying up on each side of it.
"Stop!" said the Lady, and the dwarf pulled the reindeer up so sharp that they almost sat
down. Then they recovered themselves and stood champing their bits and blowing. In the
frosty air the breath coming out of their nostrils looked like smoke.
"And what, pray, are you?" said the Lady, looking hard at Edmund.
'Tm-I'm-my name's Edmund," said Edmund rather awkwardly. He did not like the way
she looked at him.
The Lady frowned, "Is that how you address a Queen?" she asked, looking sterner than
ever.
"I beg your pardon, your Majesty, I didn’t know," said Edmund:
"Not know the Queen of Narnia?" cried she. "Ha! You shall know us better hereafter. But
I repeat-what are you?"
"Please, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I don’t know what you mean. I'm at school - at
least I was it's the holidays now."
EDMUND AND THE WARDROBE
Lucy ran out of the empty room into the passage and found the other three.
"It's all right," she repeated, "I've comeback."
"What on earth are you talking about, Lucy?" asked Susan.
"Why? said Lucy in amazement, "haven't you all been wondering where I was?"
"So you've been hiding, have you?" said Peter. "Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed!
You'll have to hide longer than that if you want people to start looking for you."
"But I've been away for hours and hours," said Lucy.
The others all stared at one another.
"Batty!" said Edmund, tapping his head. "Quite batty."
"What do you mean, Lu?" asked Peter.
"What I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into the wardrobe,
and I've been away for hours and hours, and had tea, and all sorts of things have
happened."
"Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan. "We've only just come out of that room a moment ago,
and you were there then."
"She's not being silly at all," said Peter, "she's just making up a story for fun, aren't you,
Lu? And why shouldn’t she?"
"No, Peter, I'm not," she said. "It's - it's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and
it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a Witch and it's called Narnia; come and see."
The others did not know what to think, but Lucy was so excited that they all went back
with her into the room. She rushed ahead of them, flung open the door of the wardrobe
and cried, "Now! go in and see for yourselves."
"Why, you goose," said Susan, putting her head inside and pulling the fur coats apart, "it's
just an ordinary wardrobe; look! there's the back of it."
Then everyone looked in and pulled the coats apart; and they all saw - Lucy herself saw -
a perfectly ordinary wardrobe. There was no wood and no snow, only the back of the
wardrobe, with hooks on it. Peter went in and rapped his knuckles on it to make sure that
it was solid.
"A jolly good hoax, Lu," he said as he came out again; "you have really taken us in, I
must admit. We half believed you."
"But it wasn't a hoax at all," said Lucy, "really and truly. It was all different a moment
ago. Honestly it was. I promise."
"Come, Lu," said Peter, "that's going a bit far. You've had your joke. Hadn't you better
drop it now?"
Lucy grew very red in the face and tried to say something, though she hardly knew what
she was trying to say, and burst into tears.
For the next few days she was very miserable. She could have made it up with the others
quite easily at any moment if she could have brought herself to say that the whole thing
was only a story made up for fun. But Lucy was a very truthful girl and she knew that she
was really in the right; and she could not bring herself to say this. The others who thought
she was telling a lie, and a silly lie too, made her very unhappy. The two elder ones did
this without meaning to do it, but Edmund could be spiteful, and on this occasion he was
spiteful. He sneered and jeered at Lucy and kept on asking her if she’d found any other
new countries in other cupboards all over the house. What made it worse was that these
days ought to have been delightful. The weather was fine and they were out of doors
from morning to night, bathing, fishing, climbing trees, and lying in the heather. But
Lucy could not properly enjoy any of it. And so things went on until the next wet day.
That day, when it came to the afternoon and there was still no sign of a break in the
weather, they decided to play hide-and-seek. Susan was "It" and as soon as the others
scattered to hide, Lucy went to the room where the wardrobe was. She did not mean to
hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about
the whole wretched business. But she did want to have one more look inside it; for by this
time she was beginning to wonder herself whether Narnia and the Faun had not been a
dream. The house was so large and complicated and full of hiding-places that she thought
she would have time to have one look into the wardrobe and then hide somewhere else.
But as soon as she reached it she heard steps in the passage outside, and then there was
nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe and hold the door closed behind her. She did
not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe,
even if it is not a magic one.
Now the steps she had heard were those of Edmund; and he came into the room just in
time to see Lucy vanishing into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself -
not because he thought it a particularly good place to hide but because he wanted to go on
teasing her about her imaginary country. He opened the door. There were the coats
hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs, and darkness and silence, and no sign of
Lucy. "She thinks I'm Susan come to catch her," said Edmund to himself, "and so she's
keeping very quiet in at the back." He jumped in and shut the door, forgetting what a very
foolish thing this is to do. Then he began feeling about for Lucy in the dark. He had
expected to find her in a few seconds and was very surprised when he did not. He decided
to open the door again and let in some light. But he could not find the door either. He
didn't like this at all and began groping wildly in every direction; he even shouted out,
"Lucy! Lu! Where are you? I know you're here."
There was no answer and Edmund noticed that his own voice had a curious sound - not
the sound you expect in a cupboard, but a kind of open-air sound. He also noticed that he
was unexpectedly cold; and then he saw a light.
"Thank goodness," said Edmund, "the door must have swung open of its own accord." He
forgot all about Lucy and went towards the light, which he thought was the open door of
the wardrobe. But instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found
himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in
the middle of a wood.
There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the
trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in
the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising,
very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in
that country. There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood
stretched as far as he could see in every direction. He shivered.
He now remembered that he had been looking for Lucy; and also how unpleasant he had
been to her about her "imaginary country" which now turned out not to have been
imaginary at all. He thought that she must be somewhere quite close and so he shouted,
"Lucy! Lucy! I'm here too-Edmund."
There was no answer.
"She's angry about all the things I've been saying lately," thought Edmund. And though
he did not like to admit that he had been wrong, he also did not much like being alone in
this strange, cold, quiet place; so he shouted again.
"I say, Lu! I'm sorry I didn’t believe you. I see now you were right all along. Do come
out. Make it Pax."
Still there was no answer.
"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won’t accept an
apology." He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and
had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a
sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept
into sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer.
The reindeer were about the size of Shetland ponies and their hair was so white that even
the snow hardly looked white compared with them; their branching horns were gilded
and shone like something on fire when the sunrise caught them. Their harness was of
scarlet leather and covered with bells. On the sledge, driving the reindeer, sat a fat dwarf
who would have been about three feet high if he had been standing. He was dressed in
polar bear's fur and on his head he wore a red hood with a long gold tassel hanging down
from its point; his huge beard covered his knees and served him instead of a rug. But
behind him, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a very different person -
a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund had ever seen. She also was covered in
white fur up to her throat and held a long straight golden wand in her right hand and wore
a golden crown on her head. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow or
paper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautiful face in other
respects, but proud and cold and stem.
The sledge was a fine sight as it came sweeping towards Edmund with the bells jingling
and the dwarf cracking his whip and the snow flying up on each side of it.
"Stop!" said the Lady, and the dwarf pulled the reindeer up so sharp that they almost sat
down. Then they recovered themselves and stood champing their bits and blowing. In the
frosty air the breath coming out of their nostrils looked like smoke.
"And what, pray, are you?" said the Lady, looking hard at Edmund.
'Tm-I'm-my name's Edmund," said Edmund rather awkwardly. He did not like the way
she looked at him.
The Lady frowned, "Is that how you address a Queen?" she asked, looking sterner than
ever.
"I beg your pardon, your Majesty, I didn’t know," said Edmund:
"Not know the Queen of Narnia?" cried she. "Ha! You shall know us better hereafter. But
I repeat-what are you?"
"Please, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I don’t know what you mean. I'm at school - at
least I was it's the holidays now."
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CHAPTER FOUR
TURKISH DELIGHT
"BUT what are you?" said the Queen again. "Are you a great overgrown dwarf that has
cut off its beard?"
"No, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I never had a beard. I’m a boy."
"A boy!" said she. "Do you mean you are a Son of Adam?"
Edmund stood still, saying nothing. He was too confused by this time to understand what
the question meant.
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. "Answer me, once
and for all, or I shall lose my patience. Are you human?"
"Yes, your Majesty," said Edmund.
"And how, pray, did you come to enter my dominions?"
"Please, your Majesty, I came in through a wardrobe."
"A wardrobe? What do you mean?"
"I -1 opened a door and just found myself here, your Majesty," said Edmund.
"Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the
world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck all. But he is only one, and he
is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund
full in the face, her eyes flaming; at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt
sure that she was going to do something dreadful but he seemed unable to move. Then,
just as he gave himself up for lost, she appeared to change her mind.
"My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit
with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle round you and we will talk."
Edmund did not like this arrangement at all but he dared not disobey; he stepped on to the
sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold of her fur mantle round him and tucked it
well in.
"Perhaps something hot to drink?" said the Queen. "Should you like that?"
"Yes please, your Majesty," said Edmund, whose teeth were chattering.
The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked
as if it were made of copper. Then, holding out her ann, she let one drop fall from it on
the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop for a second in mid-air, shining like a
diamond. But the moment it touched the snow there was a hissing sound and there stood
a jewelled cup full of something that steamed. The dwarf immediately took this and
handed it to Edmund with a bow and a smile; not a very nice smile. Edmund felt much
better as he began to sip the hot drink. It was something he had never tasted before, very
sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.
"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would
you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there
appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to
contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the
very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious. He was quite warm
now, and very comfortable.
While he was eating the Queen kept asking him questions. At first Edmund tried to
remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and
thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more
he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so
inquisitive. She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of
his sisters had already been in Namia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except
himself and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia. She seemed
especially interested in the fact that there were four of them, and kept on coming back to
it. "You are sure there are just four of you?" she asked. "Two Sons of Adam and two
Daughters of Eve, neither more nor less?" and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish
Delight, kept on saying, "Yes, I told you that before," and forgetting to call her "Your
Majesty", but she didn’t seem to mind now.
At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the
empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more.
Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund
did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it
would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it
till they killed themselves. But she did not offer him any more. Instead, she said to him,
"Son of Adam, I should so much like to see your brother and your two sisters. Will you
bring them to see me?"
I'll try," said Edmund, still looking at the empty box.
"Because, if you did come again - bringing them with you of course - I’d be able to give
you some more Turkish Delight. I can't do it now, the magic will only work once. In my
own house it would be another matter."
"Why can’t we go to your house now?" said Edmund. When he had first got on to the
sledge he had been afraid that she might drive away with him to some unknown place
from which he would not be able to get back; but he had forgotten about that fear now.
"It is a lovely place, my house," said the Queen. "I am sure you would like it. There are
whole rooms full of Turkish Delight, and what's more, I have no children of my own. I
want a nice boy whom I could bring up as a Prince and who would be King of Narnia
when I am gone. While he was Prince he would wear a gold crown and eat Turkish
Delight all day long; and you are much the cleverest and handsomest young man I've ever
met. I think I would like to make you the Prince - some day, when you bring the others to
visit me."
"Why not now?" said Edmund. His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers
were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
"Oh, but if I took you there now," said she, "I shouldn’t see your brother and your sisters.
I very much want to know your charming relations. You are to be the Prince and - later
on - the King; that is understood. But you must have courtiers and nobles. I will make
your brother a Duke and your sisters Duchesses."
"There's nothing special about them," said Edmund, "and, anyway, I could always bring
them some other time."
"Ah, but once you were in my house," said the Queen, "you might forget all about them.
You would be enjoying yourself so much that you wouldn’t want the bother of going to
fetch them. No. You must go back to your own country now and come to me another day,
with them, you understand. It is no good coming without them."
"But I don’t even know the way back to my own country," pleaded Edmund. "That’s
easy," answered the Queen. "Do you see that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and
Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun.
"Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way'-
here she pointed in the opposite direction - "and tell me if you can see two little hills
rising above the trees."
"I think I can," said Edmund.
"Well, my house is between those two hills. So next time you come you have only to find
the lamp-post and look for those two hills and walk through the wood till you reach my
house. But remember - you must bring the others with you. I might have to be very angry
with you if you came alone."
I'll do my best," said Edmund.
"And, by the way," said the Queen, "you needn’t tell them about me. It would be fun to
keep it a secret between us two, wouldn’t it? Make it a surprise for them. Just bring them
along to the two hills - a clever boy like you will easily think of some excuse for doing
that - and when you come to my house you could just say "Let's see who lives here" or
something like that. I am sure that would be best. If your sister has met one of the Fauns,
she may have heard strange stories about me - nasty stories that might make her afraid to
come to me. Fauns will say anything, you know, and now
"Please, please," said Edmund suddenly, "please couldn’t I have just one piece of Turkish
Delight to eat on the way home?"
"No, no," said the Queen with a laugh, "you must wait till next time." While she spoke,
she signalled to the dwarf to drive on, but as the sledge swept away out of sight, the
Queen waved to Edmund, calling out, "Next time! Next time! Don’t forget. Come soon."
Edmund was still staring after the sledge when he heard someone calling his own name,
and looking round he saw Lucy coming towards him from another part of the wood.
"Oh, Edmund!" she cried. "So you've got in too! Isn’t it wonderful, and now-"
"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll
say I’m sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I’ve been
looking for you everywhere."
"If I’d known you had got in I’d have waited for you," said Lucy, who was too happy and
excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was.
"I've been having lunch with dear Mr Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White
Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can’t have found out
and perhaps everything is going to be all right after all."
"The White Witch?" said Edmund; "who’s she?"
"She is a perfectly terrible person," said Lucy. "She calls herself the Queen of Narnia
though she has no right to be queen at all, and all the Fauns and Dryads and Naiads and
Dwarfs and Animals - at least all the good ones - simply hate her. And she can turn
people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it
is always winter in Narnia - always winter, but it never gets to Christmas. And she drives
about on a sledge, drawn by reindeer, with her wand in her hand and a crown on her
head."
Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and
when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even
more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste that Turkish Delight again more than he
wanted anything else.
"Who told you all that stuff about the White Witch?" he asked.
"Mr Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
"You can't always believe what Fauns say," said Edmund, trying to sound as if he knew
far more about them than Lucy.
"Who said so?" asked Lucy.
"Everyone knows it," said Edmund; "ask anybody you like. But it's pretty poor sport
standing here in the snow. Let's go home."
"Yes, let's," said Lucy. "Oh, Edmund, I am glad you've got in too. The others will have to
believe in Narnia now that both of us have been there. What fun it will be!"
But Edmund secretly thought that it would not be as good fun for him as for her. He
would have to admit that Lucy had been right, before all the others, and he felt sure the
others would all be on the side of the Fauns and the animals; but he was already more
than half on the side of the Witch. He did not know what he would say, or how he would
keep his secret once they were all talking about Narnia.
By this time they had walked a good way. Then suddenly they felt coats around them
instead of branches and next moment they were both standing outside the wardrobe in the
empty room.
"I say," said Lucy, "you do look awful, Edmund. Don’t you feel well?"
"I'm all right," said Edmund, but this was not true. He was feeling very sick.
"Come on then," said Lucy, "let's find the others. What a lot we shall have to tell them!
And what wonderful adventures we shall have now that we’re all in it together."
TURKISH DELIGHT
"BUT what are you?" said the Queen again. "Are you a great overgrown dwarf that has
cut off its beard?"
"No, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I never had a beard. I’m a boy."
"A boy!" said she. "Do you mean you are a Son of Adam?"
Edmund stood still, saying nothing. He was too confused by this time to understand what
the question meant.
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. "Answer me, once
and for all, or I shall lose my patience. Are you human?"
"Yes, your Majesty," said Edmund.
"And how, pray, did you come to enter my dominions?"
"Please, your Majesty, I came in through a wardrobe."
"A wardrobe? What do you mean?"
"I -1 opened a door and just found myself here, your Majesty," said Edmund.
"Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the
world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck all. But he is only one, and he
is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund
full in the face, her eyes flaming; at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt
sure that she was going to do something dreadful but he seemed unable to move. Then,
just as he gave himself up for lost, she appeared to change her mind.
"My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit
with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle round you and we will talk."
Edmund did not like this arrangement at all but he dared not disobey; he stepped on to the
sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold of her fur mantle round him and tucked it
well in.
"Perhaps something hot to drink?" said the Queen. "Should you like that?"
"Yes please, your Majesty," said Edmund, whose teeth were chattering.
The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked
as if it were made of copper. Then, holding out her ann, she let one drop fall from it on
the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop for a second in mid-air, shining like a
diamond. But the moment it touched the snow there was a hissing sound and there stood
a jewelled cup full of something that steamed. The dwarf immediately took this and
handed it to Edmund with a bow and a smile; not a very nice smile. Edmund felt much
better as he began to sip the hot drink. It was something he had never tasted before, very
sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.
"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would
you like best to eat?"
"Turkish Delight, please, your Majesty," said Edmund.
The Queen let another drop fall from her bottle on to the snow, and instantly there
appeared a round box, tied with green silk ribbon, which, when opened, turned out to
contain several pounds of the best Turkish Delight. Each piece was sweet and light to the
very centre and Edmund had never tasted anything more delicious. He was quite warm
now, and very comfortable.
While he was eating the Queen kept asking him questions. At first Edmund tried to
remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and
thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more
he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so
inquisitive. She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of
his sisters had already been in Namia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except
himself and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia. She seemed
especially interested in the fact that there were four of them, and kept on coming back to
it. "You are sure there are just four of you?" she asked. "Two Sons of Adam and two
Daughters of Eve, neither more nor less?" and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish
Delight, kept on saying, "Yes, I told you that before," and forgetting to call her "Your
Majesty", but she didn’t seem to mind now.
At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the
empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more.
Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking; for she knew, though Edmund
did not, that this was enchanted Turkish Delight and that anyone who had once tasted it
would want more and more of it, and would even, if they were allowed, go on eating it
till they killed themselves. But she did not offer him any more. Instead, she said to him,
"Son of Adam, I should so much like to see your brother and your two sisters. Will you
bring them to see me?"
I'll try," said Edmund, still looking at the empty box.
"Because, if you did come again - bringing them with you of course - I’d be able to give
you some more Turkish Delight. I can't do it now, the magic will only work once. In my
own house it would be another matter."
"Why can’t we go to your house now?" said Edmund. When he had first got on to the
sledge he had been afraid that she might drive away with him to some unknown place
from which he would not be able to get back; but he had forgotten about that fear now.
"It is a lovely place, my house," said the Queen. "I am sure you would like it. There are
whole rooms full of Turkish Delight, and what's more, I have no children of my own. I
want a nice boy whom I could bring up as a Prince and who would be King of Narnia
when I am gone. While he was Prince he would wear a gold crown and eat Turkish
Delight all day long; and you are much the cleverest and handsomest young man I've ever
met. I think I would like to make you the Prince - some day, when you bring the others to
visit me."
"Why not now?" said Edmund. His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers
were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
"Oh, but if I took you there now," said she, "I shouldn’t see your brother and your sisters.
I very much want to know your charming relations. You are to be the Prince and - later
on - the King; that is understood. But you must have courtiers and nobles. I will make
your brother a Duke and your sisters Duchesses."
"There's nothing special about them," said Edmund, "and, anyway, I could always bring
them some other time."
"Ah, but once you were in my house," said the Queen, "you might forget all about them.
You would be enjoying yourself so much that you wouldn’t want the bother of going to
fetch them. No. You must go back to your own country now and come to me another day,
with them, you understand. It is no good coming without them."
"But I don’t even know the way back to my own country," pleaded Edmund. "That’s
easy," answered the Queen. "Do you see that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and
Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun.
"Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way'-
here she pointed in the opposite direction - "and tell me if you can see two little hills
rising above the trees."
"I think I can," said Edmund.
"Well, my house is between those two hills. So next time you come you have only to find
the lamp-post and look for those two hills and walk through the wood till you reach my
house. But remember - you must bring the others with you. I might have to be very angry
with you if you came alone."
I'll do my best," said Edmund.
"And, by the way," said the Queen, "you needn’t tell them about me. It would be fun to
keep it a secret between us two, wouldn’t it? Make it a surprise for them. Just bring them
along to the two hills - a clever boy like you will easily think of some excuse for doing
that - and when you come to my house you could just say "Let's see who lives here" or
something like that. I am sure that would be best. If your sister has met one of the Fauns,
she may have heard strange stories about me - nasty stories that might make her afraid to
come to me. Fauns will say anything, you know, and now
"Please, please," said Edmund suddenly, "please couldn’t I have just one piece of Turkish
Delight to eat on the way home?"
"No, no," said the Queen with a laugh, "you must wait till next time." While she spoke,
she signalled to the dwarf to drive on, but as the sledge swept away out of sight, the
Queen waved to Edmund, calling out, "Next time! Next time! Don’t forget. Come soon."
Edmund was still staring after the sledge when he heard someone calling his own name,
and looking round he saw Lucy coming towards him from another part of the wood.
"Oh, Edmund!" she cried. "So you've got in too! Isn’t it wonderful, and now-"
"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll
say I’m sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I’ve been
looking for you everywhere."
"If I’d known you had got in I’d have waited for you," said Lucy, who was too happy and
excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was.
"I've been having lunch with dear Mr Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White
Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can’t have found out
and perhaps everything is going to be all right after all."
"The White Witch?" said Edmund; "who’s she?"
"She is a perfectly terrible person," said Lucy. "She calls herself the Queen of Narnia
though she has no right to be queen at all, and all the Fauns and Dryads and Naiads and
Dwarfs and Animals - at least all the good ones - simply hate her. And she can turn
people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it
is always winter in Narnia - always winter, but it never gets to Christmas. And she drives
about on a sledge, drawn by reindeer, with her wand in her hand and a crown on her
head."
Edmund was already feeling uncomfortable from having eaten too many sweets, and
when he heard that the Lady he had made friends with was a dangerous witch he felt even
more uncomfortable. But he still wanted to taste that Turkish Delight again more than he
wanted anything else.
"Who told you all that stuff about the White Witch?" he asked.
"Mr Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
"You can't always believe what Fauns say," said Edmund, trying to sound as if he knew
far more about them than Lucy.
"Who said so?" asked Lucy.
"Everyone knows it," said Edmund; "ask anybody you like. But it's pretty poor sport
standing here in the snow. Let's go home."
"Yes, let's," said Lucy. "Oh, Edmund, I am glad you've got in too. The others will have to
believe in Narnia now that both of us have been there. What fun it will be!"
But Edmund secretly thought that it would not be as good fun for him as for her. He
would have to admit that Lucy had been right, before all the others, and he felt sure the
others would all be on the side of the Fauns and the animals; but he was already more
than half on the side of the Witch. He did not know what he would say, or how he would
keep his secret once they were all talking about Narnia.
By this time they had walked a good way. Then suddenly they felt coats around them
instead of branches and next moment they were both standing outside the wardrobe in the
empty room.
"I say," said Lucy, "you do look awful, Edmund. Don’t you feel well?"
"I'm all right," said Edmund, but this was not true. He was feeling very sick.
"Come on then," said Lucy, "let's find the others. What a lot we shall have to tell them!
And what wonderful adventures we shall have now that we’re all in it together."
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CHAPTER FIVE
BACK ON THIS SIDE OF THE DOOR
BECAUSE the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some
time to find the others. But when at last they were all together (which happened in the
long room, where the suit of armour was) Lucy burst out:
"Peter! Susan! It's all true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to
through the wardrobe. Edmund and I both got in. We met one another in there, in the
wood. Go on, Edmund; tell them all about it."
'What's all this about, Ed?" said Peter.
And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment Edmund
had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn’t
made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all
at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let
Lucy down.
"Tell us, Ed," said Susan.
And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy (there was really
only a year's difference) and then a little snigger and said, "Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been
playing - pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true, just for fun,
of course. There's nothing there really."
Poor Lucy gave Edmund one look and rushed out of the room.
Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a
great success, and went on at once to say, "There she goes again. What's the matter with
her? That's the worst of young kids, they always
"Look here," said Peter, turning on him savagely, "shut up! You've been perfectly beastly
to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the wardrobe, and now you go playing
games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite."
"But it's all nonsense," said Edmund, very taken aback.
"Of course it's all nonsense," said Peter, "that's just the point. Lu was perfectly all right
when we left home, but since we've been down here she seems to be either going queer in
the head or else turning into a most frightful liar. But whichever it is, what good do you
think you'll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encouraging her the next?"
"I thought -1 thought," said Edmund; but he couldn’t think of anything to say.
"You didn’t think anything at all," said Peter; "it's just spite. You've always liked being
beastly to anyone smaller than yourself; we've seen that at school before now."
"Do stop it," said Susan; "it won’t make things any better having a row between you two.
Let's go and find Lucy."
It was not surprising that when they found Lucy, a good deal later, everyone could see
that she had been crying. Nothing they could say to her made any difference. She stuck to
her story and said:
"I don’t care what you think, and I don't care what you say. You can tell the Professor or
you can write to Mother or you can do anything you like. I know I've met a Faun in there
and -1 wish I’d stayed there and you are all beasts, beasts."
It was an unpleasant evening. Lucy was miserable and Edmund was beginning to feel that
his plan wasn't working as well as he had expected. The two older ones were really
beginning to think that Lucy was out of her mind. They stood in the passage talking about
it in whispers long after she had gone to bed.
The result was the next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole
thing to the Professor. "He'll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong
with Lu," said Peter; "it's getting beyond us." So they went and knocked at the study
door, and the Professor said "Come in," and got up and found chairs for them and said he
was quite at their disposal. Then he sat listening to them with the tips of his lingers
pressed together and never interrupting, till they had finished the whole story. After that
he said nothing for quite a long time. Then he cleared his throat and said the last thing
either of them expected:
"How do you know," he asked, "that your sister's story is not true?"
"Oh, but began Susan, and then stopped. Anyone could see from the old man's face
that he was perfectly serious. Then Susan pulled herself together and said, "But Edmund
said they had only been pretending."
"That is a point," said the Professor, "which certainly deserves consideration; very careful
consideration. For instance - if you will excuse me for asking the question - does your
experience lead you to regard your brother or your sister as the more reliable? I mean,
which is the more truthful?"
"That’s just the funny thing about it, sir," said Peter. "Up till now, I’d have said Lucy
every time."
"And what do you think, my dear?" said the Professor, turning to Susan.
"Well," said Susan, "in general, I’d say the same as Peter, but this couldn’t be true - all
this about the wood and the Faun."
"That is more than I know," said the Professor, "and a charge of lying against someone
whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing
indeed."
"We were afraid it mightn't even be lying," said Susan; "we thought there might be
something wrong with Lucy."
"Madness, you mean?" said the Professor quite coolly. "Oh, you can make your minds
easy about that. One has only to look at her and talk to her to see that she is not mad."
"But then," said Susan, and stopped. She had never dreamed that a grown-up would talk
like the Professor and didn't know what to think.
"Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools?
There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is
telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad For
the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is
telling the truth."
Susan looked at him very hard and was quite sure from the expression on his face that he
was no making fun of them.
"But how could it be true, sir?" said Peter.
"Why do you say that?" asked the Professor.
"Well, for one thing," said Peter, "if it was true why doesn’t everyone find this country
every time they go to the wardrobe? I mean, there was nothing there when we looked;
even Lucy didn’t pretend the was."
"What has that to do with it?" said the Professor.
"Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time."
"Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did’nt know quite what to say.
"But there was no time," said Susan. "Lucy had no time to have gone anywhere, even if
there was such a place. She came running after us the very moment we were out of the
room. It was less than minute, and she pretended to have been away for hours."
"That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true," said the Professor. "If
there really a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you
that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it) - if, I say, she had
got into another world, I should not be at a surprised to find that the other world had a
separate time of its own; so that however long you stay there it would never take up any
of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of her age would invent that idea
for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time
before coming out and telling her story."
"But do you really mean, sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds - all over the
place, just round the comer - like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," said the Professor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to
polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these
schools."
"But what are we to do?" said Susan. She felt that the conversation was beginning to get
off the point.
"My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp
expression at both of them, "there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which
is well worth trying."
"What's that?" said Susan.
"We might all try minding our own business," said he. And that was the end of that
conversation.
After this things were a good deal better for Lucy. Peter saw to it that Edmund stopped
jeering at her, and neither she nor anyone else felt inclined to talk about the wardrobe at
all. It had become a rather alarming subject. And so for a time it looked as if all the
adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.
This house of the Professor's - which even he knew so little about - was so old and
famous that people from all over England used to come and ask permission to see over it.
It was the sort of house that is mentioned in guide books and even in histories; and well it
might be, for all manner of stories were told about it, some of them even stranger than the
one I am telling you now. And when parties of sightseers arrived and asked to see the
house, the Professor always gave them pennission, and Mrs Macready, the housekeeper,
showed them round, telling them about the pictures and the armour, and the rare books in
the library. Mrs Macready was not fond of children, and did not like to be interrupted
when she was telling visitors all the things she kn ew. She had said to Susan and Peter
almost on the first morning (along with a good many other instructions), "And please
remember you're to keep out of the way whenever I'm taking a party over the house."
"Just as if any of us would want to waste half the morning trailing round with a crowd of
strange grown-ups!" said Edmund, and the other three thought the same. That was how
the adventures began for the second time.
A few mornings later Peter and Edmund were looking at the suit of armour and
wondering if they could take it to bits when the two girls rushed into the room and said,
"Look out! Here comes the Macready and a whole gang with her."
"Sharp’s the word," said Peter, and all four made off through the door at the far end of the
room. But when they had got out into the Green Room and beyond it, into the Library,
they suddenly heard voices ahead of them, and realized that Mrs Macready must be
bringing her party of sightseers up the back stairs - instead of up the front stairs as they
had expected. And after that - whether it was that they lost their heads, or that Mrs
Macready was trying to catch them, or that some magic in the house had come to life and
was chasing them into Narnia they seemed to find themselves being followed
everywhere, until at last Susan said, "Oh bother those trippers! Here - let's get into the
Wardrobe Room till they've passed. No one will follow us in there." But the moment they
were inside they heard the voices in the passage - and then someone fumbling at the door
- and then they saw the handle turning.
"Quick!" said Peter, "there's nowhere else," and flung open the wardrobe. All four of
them bundled inside it and sat there, panting, in the dark. Peter held the door closed but
did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you
should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
BACK ON THIS SIDE OF THE DOOR
BECAUSE the game of hide-and-seek was still going on, it took Edmund and Lucy some
time to find the others. But when at last they were all together (which happened in the
long room, where the suit of armour was) Lucy burst out:
"Peter! Susan! It's all true. Edmund has seen it too. There is a country you can get to
through the wardrobe. Edmund and I both got in. We met one another in there, in the
wood. Go on, Edmund; tell them all about it."
'What's all this about, Ed?" said Peter.
And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment Edmund
had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn’t
made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all
at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let
Lucy down.
"Tell us, Ed," said Susan.
And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy (there was really
only a year's difference) and then a little snigger and said, "Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been
playing - pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true, just for fun,
of course. There's nothing there really."
Poor Lucy gave Edmund one look and rushed out of the room.
Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a
great success, and went on at once to say, "There she goes again. What's the matter with
her? That's the worst of young kids, they always
"Look here," said Peter, turning on him savagely, "shut up! You've been perfectly beastly
to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the wardrobe, and now you go playing
games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite."
"But it's all nonsense," said Edmund, very taken aback.
"Of course it's all nonsense," said Peter, "that's just the point. Lu was perfectly all right
when we left home, but since we've been down here she seems to be either going queer in
the head or else turning into a most frightful liar. But whichever it is, what good do you
think you'll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encouraging her the next?"
"I thought -1 thought," said Edmund; but he couldn’t think of anything to say.
"You didn’t think anything at all," said Peter; "it's just spite. You've always liked being
beastly to anyone smaller than yourself; we've seen that at school before now."
"Do stop it," said Susan; "it won’t make things any better having a row between you two.
Let's go and find Lucy."
It was not surprising that when they found Lucy, a good deal later, everyone could see
that she had been crying. Nothing they could say to her made any difference. She stuck to
her story and said:
"I don’t care what you think, and I don't care what you say. You can tell the Professor or
you can write to Mother or you can do anything you like. I know I've met a Faun in there
and -1 wish I’d stayed there and you are all beasts, beasts."
It was an unpleasant evening. Lucy was miserable and Edmund was beginning to feel that
his plan wasn't working as well as he had expected. The two older ones were really
beginning to think that Lucy was out of her mind. They stood in the passage talking about
it in whispers long after she had gone to bed.
The result was the next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole
thing to the Professor. "He'll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong
with Lu," said Peter; "it's getting beyond us." So they went and knocked at the study
door, and the Professor said "Come in," and got up and found chairs for them and said he
was quite at their disposal. Then he sat listening to them with the tips of his lingers
pressed together and never interrupting, till they had finished the whole story. After that
he said nothing for quite a long time. Then he cleared his throat and said the last thing
either of them expected:
"How do you know," he asked, "that your sister's story is not true?"
"Oh, but began Susan, and then stopped. Anyone could see from the old man's face
that he was perfectly serious. Then Susan pulled herself together and said, "But Edmund
said they had only been pretending."
"That is a point," said the Professor, "which certainly deserves consideration; very careful
consideration. For instance - if you will excuse me for asking the question - does your
experience lead you to regard your brother or your sister as the more reliable? I mean,
which is the more truthful?"
"That’s just the funny thing about it, sir," said Peter. "Up till now, I’d have said Lucy
every time."
"And what do you think, my dear?" said the Professor, turning to Susan.
"Well," said Susan, "in general, I’d say the same as Peter, but this couldn’t be true - all
this about the wood and the Faun."
"That is more than I know," said the Professor, "and a charge of lying against someone
whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing
indeed."
"We were afraid it mightn't even be lying," said Susan; "we thought there might be
something wrong with Lucy."
"Madness, you mean?" said the Professor quite coolly. "Oh, you can make your minds
easy about that. One has only to look at her and talk to her to see that she is not mad."
"But then," said Susan, and stopped. She had never dreamed that a grown-up would talk
like the Professor and didn't know what to think.
"Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools?
There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is
telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad For
the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is
telling the truth."
Susan looked at him very hard and was quite sure from the expression on his face that he
was no making fun of them.
"But how could it be true, sir?" said Peter.
"Why do you say that?" asked the Professor.
"Well, for one thing," said Peter, "if it was true why doesn’t everyone find this country
every time they go to the wardrobe? I mean, there was nothing there when we looked;
even Lucy didn’t pretend the was."
"What has that to do with it?" said the Professor.
"Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time."
"Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did’nt know quite what to say.
"But there was no time," said Susan. "Lucy had no time to have gone anywhere, even if
there was such a place. She came running after us the very moment we were out of the
room. It was less than minute, and she pretended to have been away for hours."
"That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true," said the Professor. "If
there really a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you
that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it) - if, I say, she had
got into another world, I should not be at a surprised to find that the other world had a
separate time of its own; so that however long you stay there it would never take up any
of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of her age would invent that idea
for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time
before coming out and telling her story."
"But do you really mean, sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds - all over the
place, just round the comer - like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," said the Professor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to
polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these
schools."
"But what are we to do?" said Susan. She felt that the conversation was beginning to get
off the point.
"My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp
expression at both of them, "there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which
is well worth trying."
"What's that?" said Susan.
"We might all try minding our own business," said he. And that was the end of that
conversation.
After this things were a good deal better for Lucy. Peter saw to it that Edmund stopped
jeering at her, and neither she nor anyone else felt inclined to talk about the wardrobe at
all. It had become a rather alarming subject. And so for a time it looked as if all the
adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.
This house of the Professor's - which even he knew so little about - was so old and
famous that people from all over England used to come and ask permission to see over it.
It was the sort of house that is mentioned in guide books and even in histories; and well it
might be, for all manner of stories were told about it, some of them even stranger than the
one I am telling you now. And when parties of sightseers arrived and asked to see the
house, the Professor always gave them pennission, and Mrs Macready, the housekeeper,
showed them round, telling them about the pictures and the armour, and the rare books in
the library. Mrs Macready was not fond of children, and did not like to be interrupted
when she was telling visitors all the things she kn ew. She had said to Susan and Peter
almost on the first morning (along with a good many other instructions), "And please
remember you're to keep out of the way whenever I'm taking a party over the house."
"Just as if any of us would want to waste half the morning trailing round with a crowd of
strange grown-ups!" said Edmund, and the other three thought the same. That was how
the adventures began for the second time.
A few mornings later Peter and Edmund were looking at the suit of armour and
wondering if they could take it to bits when the two girls rushed into the room and said,
"Look out! Here comes the Macready and a whole gang with her."
"Sharp’s the word," said Peter, and all four made off through the door at the far end of the
room. But when they had got out into the Green Room and beyond it, into the Library,
they suddenly heard voices ahead of them, and realized that Mrs Macready must be
bringing her party of sightseers up the back stairs - instead of up the front stairs as they
had expected. And after that - whether it was that they lost their heads, or that Mrs
Macready was trying to catch them, or that some magic in the house had come to life and
was chasing them into Narnia they seemed to find themselves being followed
everywhere, until at last Susan said, "Oh bother those trippers! Here - let's get into the
Wardrobe Room till they've passed. No one will follow us in there." But the moment they
were inside they heard the voices in the passage - and then someone fumbling at the door
- and then they saw the handle turning.
"Quick!" said Peter, "there's nowhere else," and flung open the wardrobe. All four of
them bundled inside it and sat there, panting, in the dark. Peter held the door closed but
did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you
should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
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CHAPTER SIX
INTO THE FOREST
"I wish the Macready would hurry up and take all these people away," said Susan
presently, "I'm getting horribly cramped."
"And what a filthy smell of camphor!" said Edmund.
"I expect the pockets of these coats are full of it," said Susan, "to keep away the moths."
"There's something sticking into my back," said Peter.
"And isn’t it cold?" said Susan.
"Now that you mention it, it is cold," said Peter, "and hang it all, it's wet too. What's the
matter with this place? I'm sitting on something wet. It's getting wetter every minute." He
struggled to his feet.
"Let's get out," said Edmund, "they've gone."
"O-o-oh!" said Susan suddenly, and everyone asked her what was the matter.
"I'm sitting against a tree," said Susan, "and look! It's getting light - over there."
"By Jove, you're right," said Peter, "and look there - and there. It's trees all round. And
this wet stuff is snow. Why, I do believe we've got into Lucy's wood after all."
And now there was no mistaking it and all four children stood blinking in the daylight of
a winter day. Behind them were coats hanging on pegs, in front of them were snow-
covered trees.
Peter turned at once to Lucy.
"I apologize for not believing you," he said, "I'm sorry. Will you shake hands?
"Of course," said Lucy, and did.
"And now," said Susan, "what do we do next?"
"Do?" said Peter, "why, go and explore the wood, of course."
"Ugh!" said Susan, stamping her feet, "it's pretty cold. What about putting on some of
these coats?"
"They're not ours," said Peter doubtfully.
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan; "it isn't as if we wanted to take them out of
the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No
one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you
found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
They immediately carried out Susan's very sensible plan. The coats were rather too big
for them so that they came down to their heels and looked more like royal robes than
coats when they had put them on. But they all felt a good deal warmer and each thought
the others looked better in their new get-up and more suitable to the landscape.
"We can pretend we are Arctic explorers," said Lucy.
"This is going to be exciting enough without pretending," said Peter, as he began leading
the way forward into the forest. There were heavy darkish clouds overhead and it looked
as if there might be more snow before night.
"I say," began Edmund presently, "oughtn’t we to be bearing a bit more to the left, that is,
if we are aiming for the lamp-post?" He had forgotten for the moment that he must
pretend never to have been in the wood before. The moment the words were out of his
mouth he realized that he had given himself away. Everyone stopped; everyone stared at
him. Peter whistled.
"So you really were here," he said, "that time Lu said she’d met you in here - and you
made out she was telling lies."
There was a dead silence. "Well, of all the poisonous little beasts -" said Peter, and
shrugged his shoulders and said no more. There seemed, indeed, no more to say, and
presently the four resumed their journey; but Edmund was saying to himself, "I’ll pay you
all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, selfsatisfied prigs."
'Where are we going anyway?" said Susan, chiefly for the sake of changing the subject.
"I think Lu ought to be the leader," said Peter; "goodness knows she deserves it. Where
will you take us, Lu?"
"What about going to see Mr Tuinnus?" said Lucy. "He's the nice Faun I told you about."
Everyone agreed to this and off they went walking briskly and stamping their feet. Lucy
proved a good leader. At first she wondered whether she would be able to find the way,
but she recognized an oddlooking tree on one place and a stump in another and brought
them on to where the ground became uneven and into the little valley and at last to the
very door of Mr Tumnus's cave. But there a terrible surprise awaited them.
The door had been wrenched off its hinges and broken to bits. Inside, the cave was dark
and cold and had the damp feel and smell of a place that had not been lived in for several
days. Snow had drifted in from the doorway and was heaped on the floor, mixed with
something black, which turned out to be the charred sticks and ashes from the fire.
Someone had apparently flung it about the room and then stamped it out. The crockery
lay smashed on the floor and the picture of the Faun's father had been slashed into shreds
with a kn ife.
"This is a pretty good wash-out," said Edmund; "not much good coming here."
"What is this?" said Peter, stooping down. He had just noticed a piece of paper which had
been nailed through the carpet to the floor.
"Is there anything written on it?" asked Susan.
"Yes, I think there is," answered Peter, "but I can't read it in this light. Let's get out into
the open air."
They all went out in the daylight and crowded round Peter as he read out the following
words:
The fonner occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting
his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of
Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc., also of comforting
her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans.
signed MAUGRIM, Captain of the Secret Police, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
The children stared at each other.
"I don’t know that I'm going to like this place after all," said Susan.
"Who is this Queen, Lu?" said Peter. "Do you know anything about her?"
"She isn't a real queen at all," answered Lucy; "she's a horrible witch, the White Witch.
Everyone all the wood people - hate her. She has made an enchantment over the whole
country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas."
"I -1 wonder if there's any point in going on," said Susan. "I mean, it doesn't seem
particularly safe here and it looks as if it won’t be much fun either. And it's getting colder
every minute, and we've brought nothing to eat. What about just going home?"
"Oh, but we can't, we can't," said Lucy suddenly; "don’t you see? We can't just go home,
not after this. It is all on my account that the poor Faun has got into this trouble. He hid
me from the Witch and showed me the way back. That's what it means by comforting the
Queen's enemies and fraternizing with Humans. We simply must try to rescue him."
"A lot we could do! said Edmund, "when we haven't even got anything to eat!"
"Shut up - you!" said Peter, who was still very angry with Edmund. "What do you think,
Susan?"
"I've a horrid feeling that Lu is right," said Susan. "I don’t want to go a step further and I
wish we’d never come. But I think we must try to do something for Mr Whatever-his-
name is -1 mean the Faun."
"That's what I feel too," said Peter. "I'm worried about having no food with us. I’d vote
for going back and getting something from the larder, only there doesn’t seem to be any
certainty of getting into this country again when once you've got out of it. I think we'll
have to go on."
"So do I," said both the girls.
"If only we knew where the poor chap was imprisoned!" said Peter.
They were all still wondering what to do next, when Lucy said, "Look! There's a robin,
with such a red breast. It's the first bird I've seen here. I say! -1 wonder can birds talk in
Narnia? It almost looks as if it wanted to say something to us." Then she turned to the
Robin and said, "Please, can you tell us where Tumnus the Faun has been taken to?" As
she said this she took a step towards the bird. It at once flew away but only as far as to the
next tree. There it perched and looked at them very hard as if it understood all they had
been saying. Almost without noticing that they had done so, the four children went a step
or two nearer to it. At this the Robin flew away again to the next tree and once more
looked at them very hard. (You couldn’t have found a robin with a redder chest or a
brighter eye.)
"Do you know," said Lucy, "I really believe he means us to follow him."
"I've an idea he does," said Susan. "What do you think, Peter?"
'Well, we might as well try it," answered Peter.
The Robin appeared to understand the matter thoroughly. It kept going from tree to tree,
always a few yards ahead of them, but always so near that they could easily follow it. In
this way it led them on, slightly downhill. Wherever the Robin alighted a little shower of
snow would fall off the branch. Presently the clouds parted overhead and the winter sun
came out and the snow all around them grew dazzlingly bright. They had been travelling
in this way for about half an hour, with the two girls in front, when Edmund said to Peter,
"if you're not still too high and mighty to talk to me, I’ve something to say which you'd
better listen to."
"What is it?" asked Peter.
"Hush! Not so loud," said Edmund; "there's no good frightening the girls. But have you
realized what we're doing?"
"What?" said Peter, lowering his voice to a whisper.
"We’re following a guide we know nothing about. How do we know which side that bird
is on? Why shouldn’t it be leading us into a trap?"
"That’s a nasty idea. Still - a robin, you know. They're good birds in all the stories I've
ever read. I'm sure a robin wouldn’t be on the wrong side."
"It if comes to that, which is the right side? How do we know that the Fauns are in the
right and the Queen (yes, I know we've been told she's a witch) is in the wrong? We don’t
really know anything about either."
"The Faun saved Lucy."
"He said he did. But how do we know? And there's another thing too. Has anyone the
least idea of the way home from here?"
"Great Scott!" said Peter, "I hadn't thought of that."
"And no chance of dinner either," said Edmund.
INTO THE FOREST
"I wish the Macready would hurry up and take all these people away," said Susan
presently, "I'm getting horribly cramped."
"And what a filthy smell of camphor!" said Edmund.
"I expect the pockets of these coats are full of it," said Susan, "to keep away the moths."
"There's something sticking into my back," said Peter.
"And isn’t it cold?" said Susan.
"Now that you mention it, it is cold," said Peter, "and hang it all, it's wet too. What's the
matter with this place? I'm sitting on something wet. It's getting wetter every minute." He
struggled to his feet.
"Let's get out," said Edmund, "they've gone."
"O-o-oh!" said Susan suddenly, and everyone asked her what was the matter.
"I'm sitting against a tree," said Susan, "and look! It's getting light - over there."
"By Jove, you're right," said Peter, "and look there - and there. It's trees all round. And
this wet stuff is snow. Why, I do believe we've got into Lucy's wood after all."
And now there was no mistaking it and all four children stood blinking in the daylight of
a winter day. Behind them were coats hanging on pegs, in front of them were snow-
covered trees.
Peter turned at once to Lucy.
"I apologize for not believing you," he said, "I'm sorry. Will you shake hands?
"Of course," said Lucy, and did.
"And now," said Susan, "what do we do next?"
"Do?" said Peter, "why, go and explore the wood, of course."
"Ugh!" said Susan, stamping her feet, "it's pretty cold. What about putting on some of
these coats?"
"They're not ours," said Peter doubtfully.
"I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan; "it isn't as if we wanted to take them out of
the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
"I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No
one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you
found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
They immediately carried out Susan's very sensible plan. The coats were rather too big
for them so that they came down to their heels and looked more like royal robes than
coats when they had put them on. But they all felt a good deal warmer and each thought
the others looked better in their new get-up and more suitable to the landscape.
"We can pretend we are Arctic explorers," said Lucy.
"This is going to be exciting enough without pretending," said Peter, as he began leading
the way forward into the forest. There were heavy darkish clouds overhead and it looked
as if there might be more snow before night.
"I say," began Edmund presently, "oughtn’t we to be bearing a bit more to the left, that is,
if we are aiming for the lamp-post?" He had forgotten for the moment that he must
pretend never to have been in the wood before. The moment the words were out of his
mouth he realized that he had given himself away. Everyone stopped; everyone stared at
him. Peter whistled.
"So you really were here," he said, "that time Lu said she’d met you in here - and you
made out she was telling lies."
There was a dead silence. "Well, of all the poisonous little beasts -" said Peter, and
shrugged his shoulders and said no more. There seemed, indeed, no more to say, and
presently the four resumed their journey; but Edmund was saying to himself, "I’ll pay you
all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, selfsatisfied prigs."
'Where are we going anyway?" said Susan, chiefly for the sake of changing the subject.
"I think Lu ought to be the leader," said Peter; "goodness knows she deserves it. Where
will you take us, Lu?"
"What about going to see Mr Tuinnus?" said Lucy. "He's the nice Faun I told you about."
Everyone agreed to this and off they went walking briskly and stamping their feet. Lucy
proved a good leader. At first she wondered whether she would be able to find the way,
but she recognized an oddlooking tree on one place and a stump in another and brought
them on to where the ground became uneven and into the little valley and at last to the
very door of Mr Tumnus's cave. But there a terrible surprise awaited them.
The door had been wrenched off its hinges and broken to bits. Inside, the cave was dark
and cold and had the damp feel and smell of a place that had not been lived in for several
days. Snow had drifted in from the doorway and was heaped on the floor, mixed with
something black, which turned out to be the charred sticks and ashes from the fire.
Someone had apparently flung it about the room and then stamped it out. The crockery
lay smashed on the floor and the picture of the Faun's father had been slashed into shreds
with a kn ife.
"This is a pretty good wash-out," said Edmund; "not much good coming here."
"What is this?" said Peter, stooping down. He had just noticed a piece of paper which had
been nailed through the carpet to the floor.
"Is there anything written on it?" asked Susan.
"Yes, I think there is," answered Peter, "but I can't read it in this light. Let's get out into
the open air."
They all went out in the daylight and crowded round Peter as he read out the following
words:
The fonner occupant of these premises, the Faun Tumnus, is under arrest and awaiting
his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of
Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc., also of comforting
her said Majesty's enemies, harbouring spies and fraternizing with Humans.
signed MAUGRIM, Captain of the Secret Police, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
The children stared at each other.
"I don’t know that I'm going to like this place after all," said Susan.
"Who is this Queen, Lu?" said Peter. "Do you know anything about her?"
"She isn't a real queen at all," answered Lucy; "she's a horrible witch, the White Witch.
Everyone all the wood people - hate her. She has made an enchantment over the whole
country so that it is always winter here and never Christmas."
"I -1 wonder if there's any point in going on," said Susan. "I mean, it doesn't seem
particularly safe here and it looks as if it won’t be much fun either. And it's getting colder
every minute, and we've brought nothing to eat. What about just going home?"
"Oh, but we can't, we can't," said Lucy suddenly; "don’t you see? We can't just go home,
not after this. It is all on my account that the poor Faun has got into this trouble. He hid
me from the Witch and showed me the way back. That's what it means by comforting the
Queen's enemies and fraternizing with Humans. We simply must try to rescue him."
"A lot we could do! said Edmund, "when we haven't even got anything to eat!"
"Shut up - you!" said Peter, who was still very angry with Edmund. "What do you think,
Susan?"
"I've a horrid feeling that Lu is right," said Susan. "I don’t want to go a step further and I
wish we’d never come. But I think we must try to do something for Mr Whatever-his-
name is -1 mean the Faun."
"That's what I feel too," said Peter. "I'm worried about having no food with us. I’d vote
for going back and getting something from the larder, only there doesn’t seem to be any
certainty of getting into this country again when once you've got out of it. I think we'll
have to go on."
"So do I," said both the girls.
"If only we knew where the poor chap was imprisoned!" said Peter.
They were all still wondering what to do next, when Lucy said, "Look! There's a robin,
with such a red breast. It's the first bird I've seen here. I say! -1 wonder can birds talk in
Narnia? It almost looks as if it wanted to say something to us." Then she turned to the
Robin and said, "Please, can you tell us where Tumnus the Faun has been taken to?" As
she said this she took a step towards the bird. It at once flew away but only as far as to the
next tree. There it perched and looked at them very hard as if it understood all they had
been saying. Almost without noticing that they had done so, the four children went a step
or two nearer to it. At this the Robin flew away again to the next tree and once more
looked at them very hard. (You couldn’t have found a robin with a redder chest or a
brighter eye.)
"Do you know," said Lucy, "I really believe he means us to follow him."
"I've an idea he does," said Susan. "What do you think, Peter?"
'Well, we might as well try it," answered Peter.
The Robin appeared to understand the matter thoroughly. It kept going from tree to tree,
always a few yards ahead of them, but always so near that they could easily follow it. In
this way it led them on, slightly downhill. Wherever the Robin alighted a little shower of
snow would fall off the branch. Presently the clouds parted overhead and the winter sun
came out and the snow all around them grew dazzlingly bright. They had been travelling
in this way for about half an hour, with the two girls in front, when Edmund said to Peter,
"if you're not still too high and mighty to talk to me, I’ve something to say which you'd
better listen to."
"What is it?" asked Peter.
"Hush! Not so loud," said Edmund; "there's no good frightening the girls. But have you
realized what we're doing?"
"What?" said Peter, lowering his voice to a whisper.
"We’re following a guide we know nothing about. How do we know which side that bird
is on? Why shouldn’t it be leading us into a trap?"
"That’s a nasty idea. Still - a robin, you know. They're good birds in all the stories I've
ever read. I'm sure a robin wouldn’t be on the wrong side."
"It if comes to that, which is the right side? How do we know that the Fauns are in the
right and the Queen (yes, I know we've been told she's a witch) is in the wrong? We don’t
really know anything about either."
"The Faun saved Lucy."
"He said he did. But how do we know? And there's another thing too. Has anyone the
least idea of the way home from here?"
"Great Scott!" said Peter, "I hadn't thought of that."
"And no chance of dinner either," said Edmund.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
A DAY WITH THE BEAVERS
WHILE the two boys were whispering behind, both the girls suddenly cried "Oh!" and
stopped.
"The robin!" cried Lucy, "the robin. It's flown away." And so it had - right out of sight.
"And now what are we to do?" said Edmund, giving Peter a look which was as much as
to say "What did I tell you?"
"Sh! Look!" said Susan.
"What?" said Peter.
"There's something moving among the trees over there to the left."
They all stared as hard as they could, and no one felt very comfortable.
"There it goes again," said Susan presently.
"I saw it that time too," said Peter. "It's still there. It’s just gone behind that big tree."
"What is it?" asked Lucy, trying very hard not to sound nervous.
"Whatever it is," said Peter, "it's dodging us. It's something that doesn't want to be seen."
"Let's go home," said Susan. And then, though nobody said it out loud, everyone
suddenly realized the same fact that Edmund had whispered to Peter at the end of the last
chapter. They were lost.
"What's it like?" said Lucy.
"It's - it's a kind of animal," said Susan; and then, "Look! Look! Quick! There it is."
They all saw it this time, a whiskered furry face which had looked out at them from
behind a tree. But this time it didn’t immediately draw back. Instead, the animal put its
paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are
signalling to you to be quiet. Then it disappeared again. The children, all stood holding
their breath.
A moment later the stranger came out from behind the tree, glanced all round as if it were
afraid someone was watching, said "Hush", made signs to them to join it in the thicker bit
of wood where it was standing, and then once more disappeared.
"I know what it is," said Peter; "it's a beaver. I saw the tail."
It wants us to go to it," said Susan, "and it is warning us not to make a noise.
"I know," said Peter. "The question is, are we to go to it or not? What do you think, Lu?"
"I think it's a nice beaver," said Lucy.
"Yes, but how do we know?" said Edmund.
"Shan't we have to risk it?" said Susan. "I mean, it's no good just standing here and I feel
I want some dinner."
At this moment the Beaver again popped its head out from behind the tree and beckoned
earnestly to them.
"Come on," said Peter,"let's give it a try. All keep close together. We ought to be a match
for one beaver if it turns out to be an enemy."
So the children all got close together and walked up to the tree and in behind it, and there,
sure enough, they found the Beaver; but it still drew back, saying to them in a hoarse
throaty whisper, "Further in, come further in. Right in here. We’re not safe in the open!"
Only when it had led them into a dark spot where four trees grew so close together that
their boughs met and the brown earth and pine needles could be seen underfoot because
no snow had been able to fall there, did it begin to talk to them.
"Are you the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve?" it said.
"We’re some of them," said Peter.
"S-s-s-sh!" said the Beaver, "not so loud please. We’re not safe even here."
"Why, who are you afraid of?" said Peter. "There's no one here but ourselves."
"There are the trees," said the Beaver. "They're always listening. Most of them are on our
side, but there are trees that would betray us to her; you know who I mean," and it
nodded its head several times.
"If it comes to talking about sides," said Edmund, "how do we know you're a friend?"
"Not meaning to be rude, Mr Beaver," added Peter, "but you see, we’re strangers."
"Quite right, quite right," said the Beaver. "Here is my token." With these words it held
up to them a little white object. They all looked at it in surprise, till suddenly Lucy said,
"Oh, of course. It's my handkerchief - the one I gave to poor Mr Tumnus."
"That’s right," said the Beaver. "Poor fellow, he got wind of the arrest before it actually
happened and handed this over to me. He said that if anything happened to him I must
meet you here and take you on to Here the Beaver's voice sank into silence and it gave
one or two very mysterious nods. Then signalling to the children to stand as close around
it as they possibly could, so that their faces were actually tickled by its whiskers, it added
in a low whisper -
"They say Aslan is on the move - perhaps has already landed."
And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any
more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite
different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says
something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some
enormous meaning - either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare
or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which makes the dream so
beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that
dream again. It was like that now. At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt
something jump in its inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt
suddenly brave and adventurous. Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful
strain of music had just floated by her. And Lucy got the feeling you have when you
wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the
beginning of summer.
"And what about Mr Tumnus," said Lucy; "where is he?"
"S-s-s-sh," said the Beaver, "not here. I must bring you where we can have a real talk and
also dinner."
No one except Edmund felt any difficulty about trusting the beaver now, and everyone,
including Edmund, was very glad to hear the word "dinner".
They therefore all hurried along behind their new friend who led them at a surprisingly
quick pace, and always in the thickest parts of the forest, for over an hour. Everyone was
feeling very tired and very hungry when suddenly the trees began to get thinner in front
of them and the ground to fall steeply downhill. A minute later they came out under the
open sky (the sun was still shining) and found themselves looking down on a fine sight.
They were standing on the edge of a steep, narrow valley at the bottom of which ran - at
least it would have been running if it hadn’t been frozen - a fairly large river. Just below
them a dam had been built across this river, and when they saw it everyone suddenly
remembered that of course beavers are always making dams and felt quite sure that Mr
Beaver had made this one. They also noticed that he now had a sort of modest expression
on his, face - the sort of look people have when you are visiting a garden they've made or
reading a story they've written. So it was only common politeness when Susan said,
"What a lovely dam!" And Mr Beaver didn’t say "Hush" this time but "Merely a trifle!
Merely a trifle! And it isn't really finished!"
Above the dam there was what ought to have been a deep pool but was now, of course, a
level floor of dark green ice. And below the dam, much lower down, was more ice, but
instead of being smooth this was all frozen into the foamy and wavy shapes in which the
water had been rushing along at the very moment when the frost came. And where the
water had been trickling over and spurting through the dam there was now a glittering
wall of icicles, as if the side of the dam had been covered all over with flowers and
wreaths and festoons of the purest sugar. And out in the middle, and partly on top of the
dam was a funny little house shaped rather like an enormous beehive and from a hole in
the roof smoke was going up, so that when you saw it {especially if you were hungry)
you at once thought of cooking and became hungrier than you were before.
That was what the others chiefly noticed, but Edmund noticed something else. A little
lower down the river there was another small river which came down another small
valley to join it. And looking up that valley, Edmund could see two small hills, and he
was almost sure they were the two hills which the White Witch had pointed out to him
when he parted from her at the lamp-post that other day. And then between them, he
thought, must be her palace, only a mile off or less. And he thought about Turkish
Delight and about being a King ("And I wonder how Peter will like that?" he asked
himself) and horrible ideas came into his head.
"Here we are," said Mr Beaver, "and it looks as if Mrs Beaver is expecting us. I'll lead the
way. But be careful and don't slip."
The top of the dam was wide enough to walk on, though not (for humans) a very nice
place to walk because it was covered with ice, and though the frozen pool was level with
it on one side, there was a nasty drop to the lower river on the other. Along this route Mr
Beaver led them in single file right out to the middle where they could look a long way
up the river and a long way down it. And when they had reached the middle they were at
the door of the house.
"Here we are, Mrs Beaver," said Mr Beaver, "I've found them. Here are the Sons and
Daughters of Adam and Eve’- and they all went in.
The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound, and the first thing she
saw was a kindlooking old she-beaver sitting in the comer with a thread in her mouth
working busily at her sewing machine, and it was from it that the sound came. She
stopped her work and got up as soon as the children came in.
"So you've come at last!" she said, holding out both her wrinkled old paws. "At last! To
think that ever I should live to see this day! The potatoes are on boiling and the kettle's
singing and I daresay, Mr Beaver, you'll get us some fish."
"That I will," said Mr Beaver, and he went out of the house (Peter went with him), and
across the ice of the deep pool to where he had a little hole in the ice which he kept open
every day with his hatchet. They took a pail with them. Mr Beaver sat down quietly at the
edge of the hole (he didn’t seem to mind it being so chilly), looked hard into it, then
suddenly shot in his paw, and before you could say Jack Robinson had whisked out a
beautiful trout. Then he did it all over again until they had a fine catch of fish.
Meanwhile the girls were helping Mrs Beaver to fill the kettle and lay the table and cut
the bread and put the plates in the oven to heat and draw a huge jug of beer for Mr Beaver
from a barrel which stood in one corner of the house, and to put on the frying-pan and get
the dripping hot. Lucy thought the Beavers had a very snug little home though it was not
at all like Mr Tumnus's cave. There were no books or pictures, and instead of beds there
were bunks, like on board ship, built into the wall. And there were hams and strings of
onions hanging from the roof, and against the walls were gum boots and oilskins and
hatchets and pairs of shears and spades and trowels and things for carrying mortar in and
fishing-rods and fishing-nets and sacks. And the cloth on the table, though very clean,
was very rough.
Just as the frying-pan was nicely hissing Peter and Mr Beaver came in with the fish
which Mr Beaver had already opened with his knife and cleaned out in the open air. You
can think how good the new-caught fish smelled while they were frying and how the
hungry children longed for them to be done and how very much hungrier still they had
become before Mr Beaver said, "Now we’re nearly ready." Susan drained the potatoes
and then put them all back in the empty pot to dry on the side of the range while Lucy
was helping Mrs Beaver to dish up the trout, so that in a very few minutes everyone was
drawing up their stools (it was all three-legged stools in the Beavers' house except for
Mrs Beaver's own special rockingchair beside the fire) and preparing to enjoy
themselves. There was a jug of creamy milk for the children (Mr Beaver stuck to beer)
and a great big lump of deep yellow butter in the middle of the table from which
everyone took as much as he wanted to go with his potatoes, and all the children thought
- and I agree with them - that there's nothing to beat good freshwater fish if you eat it
when it has been alive half an hour ago and has come out of the pan half a minute ago.
And when they had finished the fish Mrs Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a
great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the
kettle on to the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll the tea was made
and ready to be poured out. And when each person had got his (or her) cup of tea, each
person shoved back his (or her) stool so as to be able to lean against the wall and gave a
long sigh of contentment.
"And now," said Mr Beaver, pushing away his empty beer mug and pulling his cup of tea
towards him, "if you'll just wait till I've got my pipe lit up and going nicely - why, now
we can get to business. It's snowing again," he added, cocking his eye at the window.
"That’s all the better, because it means we shan't have any visitors; and if anyone should
have been trying to follow you, why he won't find any tracks."
A DAY WITH THE BEAVERS
WHILE the two boys were whispering behind, both the girls suddenly cried "Oh!" and
stopped.
"The robin!" cried Lucy, "the robin. It's flown away." And so it had - right out of sight.
"And now what are we to do?" said Edmund, giving Peter a look which was as much as
to say "What did I tell you?"
"Sh! Look!" said Susan.
"What?" said Peter.
"There's something moving among the trees over there to the left."
They all stared as hard as they could, and no one felt very comfortable.
"There it goes again," said Susan presently.
"I saw it that time too," said Peter. "It's still there. It’s just gone behind that big tree."
"What is it?" asked Lucy, trying very hard not to sound nervous.
"Whatever it is," said Peter, "it's dodging us. It's something that doesn't want to be seen."
"Let's go home," said Susan. And then, though nobody said it out loud, everyone
suddenly realized the same fact that Edmund had whispered to Peter at the end of the last
chapter. They were lost.
"What's it like?" said Lucy.
"It's - it's a kind of animal," said Susan; and then, "Look! Look! Quick! There it is."
They all saw it this time, a whiskered furry face which had looked out at them from
behind a tree. But this time it didn’t immediately draw back. Instead, the animal put its
paw against its mouth just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are
signalling to you to be quiet. Then it disappeared again. The children, all stood holding
their breath.
A moment later the stranger came out from behind the tree, glanced all round as if it were
afraid someone was watching, said "Hush", made signs to them to join it in the thicker bit
of wood where it was standing, and then once more disappeared.
"I know what it is," said Peter; "it's a beaver. I saw the tail."
It wants us to go to it," said Susan, "and it is warning us not to make a noise.
"I know," said Peter. "The question is, are we to go to it or not? What do you think, Lu?"
"I think it's a nice beaver," said Lucy.
"Yes, but how do we know?" said Edmund.
"Shan't we have to risk it?" said Susan. "I mean, it's no good just standing here and I feel
I want some dinner."
At this moment the Beaver again popped its head out from behind the tree and beckoned
earnestly to them.
"Come on," said Peter,"let's give it a try. All keep close together. We ought to be a match
for one beaver if it turns out to be an enemy."
So the children all got close together and walked up to the tree and in behind it, and there,
sure enough, they found the Beaver; but it still drew back, saying to them in a hoarse
throaty whisper, "Further in, come further in. Right in here. We’re not safe in the open!"
Only when it had led them into a dark spot where four trees grew so close together that
their boughs met and the brown earth and pine needles could be seen underfoot because
no snow had been able to fall there, did it begin to talk to them.
"Are you the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve?" it said.
"We’re some of them," said Peter.
"S-s-s-sh!" said the Beaver, "not so loud please. We’re not safe even here."
"Why, who are you afraid of?" said Peter. "There's no one here but ourselves."
"There are the trees," said the Beaver. "They're always listening. Most of them are on our
side, but there are trees that would betray us to her; you know who I mean," and it
nodded its head several times.
"If it comes to talking about sides," said Edmund, "how do we know you're a friend?"
"Not meaning to be rude, Mr Beaver," added Peter, "but you see, we’re strangers."
"Quite right, quite right," said the Beaver. "Here is my token." With these words it held
up to them a little white object. They all looked at it in surprise, till suddenly Lucy said,
"Oh, of course. It's my handkerchief - the one I gave to poor Mr Tumnus."
"That’s right," said the Beaver. "Poor fellow, he got wind of the arrest before it actually
happened and handed this over to me. He said that if anything happened to him I must
meet you here and take you on to Here the Beaver's voice sank into silence and it gave
one or two very mysterious nods. Then signalling to the children to stand as close around
it as they possibly could, so that their faces were actually tickled by its whiskers, it added
in a low whisper -
"They say Aslan is on the move - perhaps has already landed."
And now a very curious thing happened. None of the children knew who Aslan was any
more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite
different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says
something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some
enormous meaning - either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare
or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which makes the dream so
beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that
dream again. It was like that now. At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt
something jump in its inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt
suddenly brave and adventurous. Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful
strain of music had just floated by her. And Lucy got the feeling you have when you
wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the
beginning of summer.
"And what about Mr Tumnus," said Lucy; "where is he?"
"S-s-s-sh," said the Beaver, "not here. I must bring you where we can have a real talk and
also dinner."
No one except Edmund felt any difficulty about trusting the beaver now, and everyone,
including Edmund, was very glad to hear the word "dinner".
They therefore all hurried along behind their new friend who led them at a surprisingly
quick pace, and always in the thickest parts of the forest, for over an hour. Everyone was
feeling very tired and very hungry when suddenly the trees began to get thinner in front
of them and the ground to fall steeply downhill. A minute later they came out under the
open sky (the sun was still shining) and found themselves looking down on a fine sight.
They were standing on the edge of a steep, narrow valley at the bottom of which ran - at
least it would have been running if it hadn’t been frozen - a fairly large river. Just below
them a dam had been built across this river, and when they saw it everyone suddenly
remembered that of course beavers are always making dams and felt quite sure that Mr
Beaver had made this one. They also noticed that he now had a sort of modest expression
on his, face - the sort of look people have when you are visiting a garden they've made or
reading a story they've written. So it was only common politeness when Susan said,
"What a lovely dam!" And Mr Beaver didn’t say "Hush" this time but "Merely a trifle!
Merely a trifle! And it isn't really finished!"
Above the dam there was what ought to have been a deep pool but was now, of course, a
level floor of dark green ice. And below the dam, much lower down, was more ice, but
instead of being smooth this was all frozen into the foamy and wavy shapes in which the
water had been rushing along at the very moment when the frost came. And where the
water had been trickling over and spurting through the dam there was now a glittering
wall of icicles, as if the side of the dam had been covered all over with flowers and
wreaths and festoons of the purest sugar. And out in the middle, and partly on top of the
dam was a funny little house shaped rather like an enormous beehive and from a hole in
the roof smoke was going up, so that when you saw it {especially if you were hungry)
you at once thought of cooking and became hungrier than you were before.
That was what the others chiefly noticed, but Edmund noticed something else. A little
lower down the river there was another small river which came down another small
valley to join it. And looking up that valley, Edmund could see two small hills, and he
was almost sure they were the two hills which the White Witch had pointed out to him
when he parted from her at the lamp-post that other day. And then between them, he
thought, must be her palace, only a mile off or less. And he thought about Turkish
Delight and about being a King ("And I wonder how Peter will like that?" he asked
himself) and horrible ideas came into his head.
"Here we are," said Mr Beaver, "and it looks as if Mrs Beaver is expecting us. I'll lead the
way. But be careful and don't slip."
The top of the dam was wide enough to walk on, though not (for humans) a very nice
place to walk because it was covered with ice, and though the frozen pool was level with
it on one side, there was a nasty drop to the lower river on the other. Along this route Mr
Beaver led them in single file right out to the middle where they could look a long way
up the river and a long way down it. And when they had reached the middle they were at
the door of the house.
"Here we are, Mrs Beaver," said Mr Beaver, "I've found them. Here are the Sons and
Daughters of Adam and Eve’- and they all went in.
The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound, and the first thing she
saw was a kindlooking old she-beaver sitting in the comer with a thread in her mouth
working busily at her sewing machine, and it was from it that the sound came. She
stopped her work and got up as soon as the children came in.
"So you've come at last!" she said, holding out both her wrinkled old paws. "At last! To
think that ever I should live to see this day! The potatoes are on boiling and the kettle's
singing and I daresay, Mr Beaver, you'll get us some fish."
"That I will," said Mr Beaver, and he went out of the house (Peter went with him), and
across the ice of the deep pool to where he had a little hole in the ice which he kept open
every day with his hatchet. They took a pail with them. Mr Beaver sat down quietly at the
edge of the hole (he didn’t seem to mind it being so chilly), looked hard into it, then
suddenly shot in his paw, and before you could say Jack Robinson had whisked out a
beautiful trout. Then he did it all over again until they had a fine catch of fish.
Meanwhile the girls were helping Mrs Beaver to fill the kettle and lay the table and cut
the bread and put the plates in the oven to heat and draw a huge jug of beer for Mr Beaver
from a barrel which stood in one corner of the house, and to put on the frying-pan and get
the dripping hot. Lucy thought the Beavers had a very snug little home though it was not
at all like Mr Tumnus's cave. There were no books or pictures, and instead of beds there
were bunks, like on board ship, built into the wall. And there were hams and strings of
onions hanging from the roof, and against the walls were gum boots and oilskins and
hatchets and pairs of shears and spades and trowels and things for carrying mortar in and
fishing-rods and fishing-nets and sacks. And the cloth on the table, though very clean,
was very rough.
Just as the frying-pan was nicely hissing Peter and Mr Beaver came in with the fish
which Mr Beaver had already opened with his knife and cleaned out in the open air. You
can think how good the new-caught fish smelled while they were frying and how the
hungry children longed for them to be done and how very much hungrier still they had
become before Mr Beaver said, "Now we’re nearly ready." Susan drained the potatoes
and then put them all back in the empty pot to dry on the side of the range while Lucy
was helping Mrs Beaver to dish up the trout, so that in a very few minutes everyone was
drawing up their stools (it was all three-legged stools in the Beavers' house except for
Mrs Beaver's own special rockingchair beside the fire) and preparing to enjoy
themselves. There was a jug of creamy milk for the children (Mr Beaver stuck to beer)
and a great big lump of deep yellow butter in the middle of the table from which
everyone took as much as he wanted to go with his potatoes, and all the children thought
- and I agree with them - that there's nothing to beat good freshwater fish if you eat it
when it has been alive half an hour ago and has come out of the pan half a minute ago.
And when they had finished the fish Mrs Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a
great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the
kettle on to the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll the tea was made
and ready to be poured out. And when each person had got his (or her) cup of tea, each
person shoved back his (or her) stool so as to be able to lean against the wall and gave a
long sigh of contentment.
"And now," said Mr Beaver, pushing away his empty beer mug and pulling his cup of tea
towards him, "if you'll just wait till I've got my pipe lit up and going nicely - why, now
we can get to business. It's snowing again," he added, cocking his eye at the window.
"That’s all the better, because it means we shan't have any visitors; and if anyone should
have been trying to follow you, why he won't find any tracks."