- 7 weeks ago
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Audiobook - Pt 5/5
Complete unabridged, read by Derek Jacobi
00:00:00 - Chapter 13, Pt 2
00:09:14 - Chapter 14
00:29:30 - Chapter 15
00:50:48 - Chapter 16
Complete unabridged, read by Derek Jacobi
00:00:00 - Chapter 13, Pt 2
00:09:14 - Chapter 14
00:29:30 - Chapter 15
00:50:48 - Chapter 16
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00:00they took some time choosing their seats at the perilous table probably everyone had the same
00:00:10reason but no one said it out loud but it was really a rather nasty choice one could hardly
00:00:17bear to sit all night next to those three terrible hairy objects which if not dead were certainly not
00:00:26alive in the ordinary sense on the other hand to sit at the far end so that you would see them less
00:00:34and less as the night grew darker and wouldn't know if they were moving and perhaps wouldn't see
00:00:38them at all by about two o'clock no it was not to be thought of so they sauntered round and round the
00:00:47table saying what about here and oh perhaps a bit further on or why not on this side till at last
00:00:57they settled down somewhere about the middle but nearer to the sleepers than to the other end it
00:01:04was about ten by now and almost dark those strange new constellations burned in the east lucy would
00:01:13have liked it better if they had been the leopard and the ship and other old friends of the narnian
00:01:18sky they wrapped themselves in their sea cloaks and sat still and waited at first there was some
00:01:26attempt at talk but it didn't come to much and they sat and sat and all the time they heard the waves
00:01:36breaking on the beach after hours that seemed like ages there came a moment when they all knew that
00:01:44they had been dozing a moment before but were all suddenly wide awake the stars were all in quite
00:01:52different positions from those they had last noticed the sky was very black except for the faintest possible
00:01:59grayness in the east they were cold though thirsty and stiff and none of them spoke because now at
00:02:07last something was happening before them beyond the pillars there was the slope of a low hill and now
00:02:15a door opened in the hillside and light appeared in the doorway and a figure came out and the door shut
00:02:22behind it the figure carried a light and this light was really all that they could see distinctly
00:02:28it came slowly nearer and nearer till at last it stood right at the table opposite to them
00:02:36now they could see that it was a tall girl dressed in a single long garment of clear blue which left her
00:02:45arms bare she was bareheaded and her yellow hair hung down her back and when they looked at her they thought
00:02:52that they had never before known what beauty meant the light which she had been carrying was a tall candle in a silver
00:03:00candlestick which he now set upon the table if there had been any wind of the sea earlier in the night it must have died
00:03:07down by now for the flame of the candle burned as straight and still as if it were in a room with the window shut and the
00:03:15curtains drawn gold and silver on the table shone in its light lucy now notice something lying lengthwise on
00:03:23the table which had escaped her attention before it was a knife of stone sharp as steel a cruel looking ancient
00:03:33looking thing no one had yet spoken a word then repeat sheep first and caspian next they all rose to their feet because they felt that she was a great
00:03:44lady travelers who have come from far to aslan's table said the girl why do you not eat and drink
00:03:54madam said caspian we feared the food because we thought it had cast our friends into an enchanted sleep
00:04:03they had never tasted it she said please said lucy what happened to them seven years ago said the girl
00:04:16they came here in a ship whose sails were rags and her timbers ready to fall apart there were a few others
00:04:24with them sailors and when they came to this table one said here is the good place let us set sail and reef sail
00:04:32and row no longer but sit down and end our days in peace and the second said no let us re-embark and
00:04:41sail for narnia and the west it may be that miraz is dead but the third who was a very masterful man
00:04:51leapt up and said no by heaven we are men and tell marines not brutes what should we do but seek adventure
00:05:00after adventure we have not long to live in any event let us spend what is left in seeking the
00:05:06unpeopled world behind the sunrise and as they quarrelled he caught up the knife of stone which
00:05:13lies there on the table and would have fought with his comrades but it is a thing not right for him to
00:05:20touch and as his fingers closed upon the hilt deep sleep fell upon all the three until the
00:05:28enchantment is undone they will never wake what is this knife of stone asked eustace do none of you know
00:05:38it said the girl i i think said lucy i've seen something like it before it was a knife like it that
00:05:49the white witch used when she killed aslan at the stone table long ago it was the same said the girl
00:05:58and it was brought here to be kept in honour while the world lasts edmund who had been looking more and
00:06:06more uncomfortable for the last few minutes now spoke look here he said i hope i'm not a coward
00:06:14about eating this food i mean and i'm sure i don't mean to be rude but we have had a lot of queer
00:06:20adventures on this voyage of ours and things aren't always what they seem when i look in your face i can't
00:06:28help believing all you say but then that's just what might happen with a witch too how are we to know
00:06:36you're a friend you can't know said the girl you can only believe or not after a moment's pause reepy
00:06:49cheap small voice was heard sire he said to caspian of your courtesy fill my cup with wine from that
00:06:57flagon it is too big for me to lift i will drink to the lady caspian obeyed and the mouse standing on the
00:07:08table held up a golden cup between its tiny paws and said lady i pledge you then it fell to one cold
00:07:19peacock and in a short while everyone else followed its example all were very hungry and the meal if not
00:07:27quite what you wanted for a very early breakfast was excellent as a very late supper why is it called
00:07:35aslan's table asked lucy presently it is set here by his bidding said the girl for those who come
00:07:43so far some call this island the world's end for though you can sail further this is the beginning of
00:07:51the end of the end but how does the food keep asked the practical eustace it is eaten and renewed
00:07:59every day said the girl this you will see and what are we to do about the sleepers asked caspian in
00:08:08the world from which my friends come here he nodded at eustace and the pevenses they have a story of a prince or a
00:08:15king coming to a castle where all the people lay in an enchanted sleep in that story he could not
00:08:22dissolve the enchantment until he had kissed the princess but here said the girl it is different
00:08:31here he cannot kiss the princess till he has dissolved the enchantment
00:08:37then said caspian in the name of aslan show me how to set about that work at once
00:08:45my father will teach you that said the girl your father said everyone who is he and where
00:08:54look said the girl turning round and pointing at the door in the hillside they could see it more easily
00:09:01now for while they had been talking the stars had grown fainter and great gaps of white light were
00:09:08appearing in the grayness of the eastern sky
00:09:15chapter 14 the beginning of the end of the world
00:09:21slowly the door opened again and out there came a figure as tall and straight as the girls but not so
00:09:28slender it carried no light but light seemed to come from it as it came nearer lucy saw that it was
00:09:36like an old man his silver beard came down to his bare feet in front and his silver hair hung down to
00:09:43his heels behind and his robe appeared to be made from the fleece of silver sheep he looked so mild and
00:09:50grave that once more all the travelers rose to their feet and stood in silence but the old man came on
00:09:58without speaking to the travelers and stood on the other side of the table opposite to his daughter
00:10:04then both of them held up their arms before them and turned to face the east in that position they
00:10:11began to sing i wish i could write down the song but no one who was present could remember it lucy said
00:10:17afterwards that it was high almost shrill but very beautiful a cold kind of song an early morning kind of
00:10:27song and as they sang the gray clouds lifted from the eastern sky and the white patches grew bigger
00:10:35and bigger till it was all white and the sea began to shine like silver and long afterwards but those two
00:10:44sang all the time the east began to turn red and at last unclouded the sun came up out of the sea
00:10:53and its long level ray shot down the length of the table on the gold and silver and on the stone knife
00:11:02once or twice before the narnians had wondered whether the sun at its rising did not look bigger
00:11:07in these seas than it had looked at home this time they were certain there was no mistaking it and the
00:11:15brightness of its rays on the dew and on the table were far beyond any morning brightness they had ever
00:11:22seen and as edmund said afterwards though lots of things happened on that trip which sound more exciting
00:11:30that moment was really the most exciting for now they knew that they had truly come to the beginning of
00:11:38the end of the world then something seemed to be flying at them out of the very center of the rising sun
00:11:46but of course one couldn't look steadily in that direction to make sure but presently the air became
00:11:52full of voices voices which took up the same song that the lady and her father were singing but in far wilder
00:11:59tones and in a language which no one knew and soon after that the owners of these voices could be seen
00:12:07they were birds large and white and they came by hundreds and thousands and alighted on everything
00:12:15on the grass and the pavement on the table on your shoulders your hands and your head till it looked as
00:12:20as if heavy snow had fallen for like snow they not only made everything white but blurred and blunted all
00:12:28shapes but Lucy looking out from between the wings of the birds that covered her saw one bird fly to
00:12:35the old man with something in its beak that looked like a little fruit unless it was a little live coal
00:12:42which it might have been but it was too bright to look at and the bird laid it in the old man's mouth
00:12:51then the bird stopped their singing and appeared to be very busy about the table when they rose from it
00:12:56again everything on the table that could be eaten or drunk had disappeared these birds rose from their
00:13:02meal in their thousands and hundreds and carried away all the things that could not be eaten or drunk
00:13:09such as bones rinds and shells and took their flight back to the rising sun but now because they were
00:13:17not singing the word of their wings seemed to set the whole air a tremble and there was the table pecked
00:13:25clean and empty and the three old lords of narnia still fast asleep now at last the old man turned to
00:13:35the travelers and bat them welcome sir said caspian will you tell us how to undo the enchantment which
00:13:43holds these three narnian lords asleep i will gladly tell you that my son said the old man to break this
00:13:52enchantment you must sail to the world's end or as near as you can come to it and you must come back
00:13:59having left at least one of your company behind and what must happen to that one asked reepy cheap
00:14:09he must go into the utter east and never return into the world that is my heart's desire said reepy cheap
00:14:19and are we near the world's end now sir asked caspian have you any knowledge of the seas and lands further
00:14:26east than this i saw them long ago said the old man but it was from a great height i cannot tell you such
00:14:37things as sailors need to know do you mean you were flying in the air eustace blurted out i was a long way
00:14:48above the air my son replied the old man i am ramandu but i see that you stare at one another and have not
00:14:58heard this name and no wonder for the days when i was a star had ceased long before any of you knew
00:15:07this world and all the constellations have changed golly said edmund under his breath he's a retired star
00:15:19aren't you a star any longer asked lucy i am a star at rest my daughter answered ramandu when i set for
00:15:30the last time decrepit and old beyond all that you can reckon i was carried to this island
00:15:38i am not so old now as i was then every morning a bird brings me a fire berry from the valleys in the sun
00:15:46and each fire berry takes away a little of my age and when i have become as young as the child that was
00:15:53born yesterday then i shall take my rising again for we are at earth's eastern rim and once more tread the
00:16:04great dance in our world said eustace a star is a huge ball of flaming gas even in your world my son
00:16:16that is not what a star is but only what it is made of and in this world you have already met a star
00:16:24but i think you have been with koriakin is he a retired star too said lucy well not quite the same said ramandu
00:16:36it was not quite as a rest that he was set to govern the duppers you might call it a punishment he might
00:16:45have shone for thousands of years more in the southern winter sky if all had gone well what did
00:16:53he do sir asked caspian my son said ramandu it is not for you a son of adam to know what faults a star can
00:17:04commit but come we waste time in such talk are you yet resolved will you sail further east and come again
00:17:14leaving one to return no more and so break the enchantment or will you sail westward
00:17:22surely sire said reepy cheap there is no question about that it is very plainly part of our quest
00:17:30to rescue these three lords from enchantment i think the same reepy cheap replied caspian and even if it were
00:17:38not so it would break my heart not to go as near the world's end as the dawn treadable take us but i'm
00:17:45thinking of the crew they signed on to seek the seven lords not to reach the rim of the earth if we
00:17:52sail east from here we sail to find the edge the utter east and no one knows how far it is they're brave
00:18:01fellows but i see signs that some of them are weary of the voyage and long to have our prow pointing to
00:18:07narnia i don't think i should take them further without their knowledge and consent and then there's
00:18:13the poor lord roop he's a broken man my son said the star it would be no use even though you wished
00:18:23it to sail for the world's end with men unwilling or men deceived that is not how great unenchantments
00:18:33are achieved they must know where they go and why but who is this broken man you speak of
00:18:41caspian told ram and do the story of roop i can give him what he needs most said ram and do in this
00:18:51island there is sleep without stint or measure and sleep in which no faintest footfall of a dream was
00:18:59ever heard let him sit beside these other three and drink oblivion till your return oh do let's do that
00:19:09caspian said lucy i'm sure it's just what he would love at that moment they were interrupted by the sound of
00:19:17many feet and voices drinian and the rest of the ship's company were approaching they halted in surprise when
00:19:24they saw ram and do and his daughter and then because these were obviously great people every man uncovered his
00:19:31head some sailors eyed the empty dishes and flagons on the table with regret my lord said the king to
00:19:39drinian pray send two men back to the dawn treader with a message to the lord roop tell him that the
00:19:45last of his old shipmates are here asleep asleep without dreams and that he can share it when this
00:19:54had been done caspian told the rest to sit down and laid the whole situation before them when he
00:20:00had finished there was a long silence and some whispering until presently the master bowman got
00:20:07to his feet and said what some of us have been wanting to ask for a long time your majesty is how
00:20:14we're ever to get home when we do turn whether we turn here or somewhere else it's been west and
00:20:21northwest winds all the way barring an occasional calm and if that doesn't change i'd like to know
00:20:27what hopes we have of seeing narnia again there's not much chance of supplies lasting while we row
00:20:34all that way that's landsman's talk said drinian there's always a prevailing west wind in these seas
00:20:42all through the late summer and it always changes after the new year we'll have plenty of wind for
00:20:48sailing westward more than we shall like from all accounts that's true master said an old sailor who
00:20:56was a galmian by birth you get some ugly weather rolling up from the east in january and february
00:21:03and by your leave side if i was in command of this ship i'd say to winter here and begin the voyage home
00:21:10in march what did you eat while you were wintering here asked eustace this table said ramandu will be
00:21:20filled with the king's feast every day at sunset now you're talking said several sailors your majesties
00:21:31and gentlemen and ladies all said ryanelf there's just one thing i want to say there's not one of us
00:21:38chaps as was pressed on this journey we're volunteers and there's some here that are looking very hard at
00:21:45that table and thinking about king's feasts who were talking very loud about adventures on the day we
00:21:52sailed from care paravel and swearing they wouldn't come home till we'd found the end of the world
00:21:58and there were some standing on the key who would have given all they had to come with us it was
00:22:05thought a finer thing than to have a cabin boy's berth on the dawn-treader than to wear a knight's
00:22:10belt i don't know if you get the hang of what i'm saying but what i mean is that i think chaps who set
00:22:17out like us will look as silly as there's those dufflepads if we come home and say we got to the
00:22:23the beginning of the world's end and hadn't the heart to go further some of the sailors cheered at
00:22:31this but some said that that was all very well this isn't going to be much fun whispered edmund to
00:22:39caspian what are we to do if half those fellows hang back wait caspian whispered back i've still got a
00:22:47card to play aren't you going to say anything reap whispered lucy no why should your majesty expect it
00:22:58answered reapercheap in a voice that most people heard my own plans are made while i can i shall
00:23:06sail east in the dawn-treader when she fails me i paddle east in my coracle when she sinks i shall swim
00:23:15east with my four paws and when i can swim no longer if i have not reached aslan's country or
00:23:22shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract i shall sink with my nose to the sunrise
00:23:28and peepy cheek will be head of the talking mice in narnia hear hear said a sailor i'll say the same
00:23:38barring the bit about the coracle which wouldn't bear me he added in a lower voice i'm not going to be
00:23:44outdone by a mouse at this point caspian jumped to his feet friends he said i think you have not
00:23:52quite understood our purpose you talk as if we had come to you with our hat in our hand begging for
00:23:58shipmates it isn't like that at all we and our royal brother and sister and their kinsmen and sir
00:24:05reepy cheap the good knight and the lord drinnian have an errand to the world's edge it's our pleasure
00:24:12to choose from among such of you as are willing those who we deem worthy of so high an enterprise
00:24:19we have not said that any can come for the asking that is why we shall now command the lord drinnian
00:24:25and master rinse to consider carefully what men among you are the hardest in battle the most skilled
00:24:32seamen the purest in blood the most loyal to our person and the cleanest of life and manners and to
00:24:38give their names to us in a schedule he paused and went on in a quicker voice as lands main he exclaimed
00:24:47do you think that the privilege of seeing the last things is to be bought for a song
00:24:52why every man that comes with us shall bequeath the title of dawn-treader to all his descendants and
00:24:58when we land at care padavel on the homeward voyage he shall have either gold or land enough to make him
00:25:04rich all his life now scatter over the island all of you in half an hour's time i shall receive the
00:25:11names that lord drinnian brings me there was rather a sheepish silence and then the crew made their bows and
00:25:20moved away one in this direction and one in that but mostly in little knots or bunches talking
00:25:29and now for the lord roop said caspian but turning to the head of the table he saw that roop was already
00:25:38there he had arrived silent and unnoticed while the discussion was going on and was seated beside the
00:25:45lord argos the daughter of brahmandu stood beside him as if she had just helped him into his chair
00:25:52brahmandu stood behind him and laid both his hands on roop's gray head even in daylight a faint silver
00:26:00light came from the hands of the star there was a smile on roop's haggard face he held out one of his
00:26:08hands to lucy and the other to caspian for a moment it looked as if he were going to say something
00:26:15then his smile brightened as if he were feeling some delicious sensation a long sigh of contentment
00:26:24came from his lips his head fell forward and he slept poor roop said lucy i am glad he must have had
00:26:35terrible times don't let's even think of it said eustace meanwhile caspian's speech helped perhaps by
00:26:47some magic of the island was having just the effect he intended a good many who have been anxious enough
00:26:53to get out of the voyage felt quite differently about being left out of it and of course whenever
00:27:00any one sailor announced that he had made up his mind to ask for permission to sail the ones who
00:27:05hadn't said this felt that they were getting fewer and more uncomfortable so that before the half hour
00:27:11was nearly over several people were positively sucking up to drinian and rinse at least that was
00:27:18what they called it at my school to get a good report and soon there were only three left who didn't
00:27:25want to go and those three were trying very hard to persuade others to stay with them and very shortly
00:27:31after that there was only one left and in the end he began to be afraid of being left behind all on his
00:27:38own and changed his mind at the end of the half hour they all came trooping back to aslan's table and
00:27:47stood at one end while drinian and rinse went and sat down with caspian and made their report
00:27:52and caspian accepted all the men but the one who had changed his mind at the last moment
00:28:00his name was pittencream and he stayed on the island of the star all the time the others were away
00:28:07looking for the world's end and he very much wished he had gone with them he wasn't the sort of man who
00:28:14could enjoy talking to ramandu and ramandu's daughter nor they to him and it rained a good deal
00:28:22and though there was a wonderful feast on the table every night he didn't very much enjoy it he said it
00:28:28gave him the creeps sitting there alone and in the rain as likely as not with those four lords asleep at
00:28:35the end of the table and when the others returned he felt so out of things that he deserted on the voyage
00:28:41home at the lone islands and went and lived in calumene where he told wonderful stories about his
00:28:47adventures at the end of the world until at last he came to believe them himself so you may say in a
00:28:54sense that he lived happily ever after but he could never bear mice that night they all ate and drank
00:29:04together at the great table between the pillars where the feast was magically renewed and the next
00:29:10morning the dawn-treader set sail once more just when the great birds had come and gone again lady
00:29:18said caspian i hope to speak with you again when i have broken the enchantments
00:29:24and ramandu's daughter looked at him and smiled
00:29:28chapter fifteen the wonders of the last sea
00:29:38very soon after they had left ramandu's country they began to feel that they had already sailed
00:29:43beyond the world all was different for one thing they all found that they were needing less sleep
00:29:50one did not want to go to bed not to eat much nor even to talk except in low voices another thing
00:29:59was the light there was too much of it the sun when it came up each morning looked twice if not three
00:30:06times its usual size and every morning which gave lucy the strangest feeling of all
00:30:14the huge white birds singing their song with human voices in a language no one knew streamed overhead
00:30:22and vanished astern on their way to their breakfast at aslan's table a little later they came flying
00:30:28back and vanished into the east how beautifully clear the water is said lucy to herself as she
00:30:37lent over the port side early in the afternoon of the second day and it was the first thing that she
00:30:44noticed was a little black object about the size of a shoe traveling along at the same speed as the
00:30:51ship for a moment she thought it was something floating on the surface but then there came floating
00:30:57past a bit of stale bread which the cook had just thrown out of the galley and the bit of bread
00:31:03looked as if we're going to collide with the black thing but it didn't it passed above it and lucy
00:31:11now saw that the black thing could not be on the surface then the black thing suddenly got very much
00:31:17bigger and flicked back to normal size a moment later now lucy knew she had seen something
00:31:25just like that happen somewhere else if only she could remember where she held her hand to her head and
00:31:33screwed up her face and put out her tongue in the effort to remember at last she did of course it was like
00:31:44what you saw from a train on a bright sunny day you saw the black shadow of your own coach running along
00:31:50the fields at the same pace as the train then you went into a cutting and immediately the same shadow
00:31:57flicked close up to you and got big racing along the grass of the cutting bank then you came out of the
00:32:03cutting and flick once more the black shadow had gone back to its normal size and was running along the
00:32:09fields it's our shadow the shadow of the dawn treader said lucy our shadow running along the bottom of the
00:32:18sea that time when it got bigger it went over a hill but in that case the water must be clearer than i thought
00:32:28good gracious i must be seeing the bottom of the sea fathoms and fathoms down
00:32:35as soon as she had said this she realized that the great silvery expanse which she had been seeing
00:32:44without noticing for some time was really the sand on the seabed and that all sorts of darker or
00:32:52brighter patches were not lights and shadows on the surface but real things on the bottom at present for
00:32:59instance they were passing over a mass of soft purpley green with a broad winding strip of pale
00:33:06gray in the middle of it but now that she knew it was on the bottom she saw it much better she could
00:33:12see that bits of the dark stuff were much higher than other bits and were waving gently just like trees
00:33:20in a wind said lucy and i do believe that's what they are it's a submarine forest they passed on above
00:33:31it and presently the pale streak was joined by another pale streak if i was down there thought lucy
00:33:40that streak would be just like a road through the wood and that place where it joins the other would be
00:33:46a crossroads oh i do wish i was hello the forest is coming to an end and i do believe the streak really
00:33:57was a road i can still see it going on across the open sand it's a different color and it's marked out with
00:34:06something at the edges dotted lines perhaps they are stones and now it's getting wider but it was not
00:34:17really getting wider it was getting nearer she realized this because of the way in which the
00:34:22shadow of the ship came rushing up towards her and the road she felt sure it was a road now began to go
00:34:29in zigzags obviously it was climbing up a steep hill and when she held her head sideways and looked back
00:34:39what she saw was very like what you see when you look down a winding road from the top of a hill
00:34:45she could even see the shafts of sunlight falling through the deep water onto the wooded valley and in
00:34:51the extreme distance everything melting away into a dim greenness but some places the sunny ones she
00:35:01thought were ultramarine blue she could not however spend much time looking back what was coming into
00:35:08view in the forward direction was too exciting the road had apparently now reached the top of the hill
00:35:14and ran straight forward little specks were moving to and fro on it and now something most wonderful
00:35:22fortunately in full sunlight or as full as it can be when it falls through fathoms of water flashed into
00:35:29sight it was knobbly and jagged and of a pearly or perhaps an ivory color she was so nearly straight
00:35:40above it that at first she could hardly make out what it was but everything became plain when she
00:35:46noticed its shadow the sunlight was falling across lucy's shoulders so the shadow of the thing lay
00:35:52stretched out on the sand behind it and by its shape she saw clearly that it was a shadow of towers
00:36:01and pinnacles minarets and domes why it's a city or a huge castle said lucy to herself but i wonder why they
00:36:14built it on top of a high mountain long afterwards when she was back in england and talked all these
00:36:23adventures over with edmund they thought of a reason and i'm pretty sure it is the true one in the sea
00:36:31the deeper you go the darker and colder it gets and it is down there in the dark and cold the dangerous
00:36:40things live the squid and the sea serpent and the kraken the valleys are the wild unfriendly places
00:36:48the sea people feel about their valleys as we do about the mountains and feel about their mountains as
00:36:54we feel about valleys it is on the heights or as we would say in the shallows that there is warmth and
00:37:02peace the reckless hunters and brave knights of the sea go down into the depths on quests and adventures
00:37:11but return home to the heights for rest and peace courtesy and council the sports the dances and the songs
00:37:18they had passed the city and the seabed was still rising it was only a few hundred feet below the ship
00:37:26now the road had disappeared they were sailing above an open park like country dotted with little groves of
00:37:33brightly colored vegetation and then lucy nearly squealed aloud with excitement she had seen people
00:37:44there were between fifteen and twenty of them and all mounted on sea horses not the tiny little sea
00:37:52horses which you may have seen in museums but horses rather bigger than themselves they must be
00:37:59noble and lordly people lucy thought for she could catch the gleam of gold on some of their foreheads
00:38:05and streamers of emerald or orange colored stuff fluttered from their shoulders in the current
00:38:12then oh bother these fish said lucy for a whole shoal of small fat fish swimming quite close to the surface
00:38:23had come between her and the sea people but though this spoiled her view it led to the most interesting
00:38:30thing of all suddenly a fierce little fish of a kind she had never seen before came darting up from below
00:38:38snapped grabbed and sank rapidly with one of the fat fish in its mouth and all the sea people were sitting
00:38:45on their horses staring up at what had happened they seemed to be talking and laughing and before the
00:38:50hunting fish had got back to them with its prey another of the same kind came up from the sea
00:38:55people and lucy was almost certain that one big seaman who sat on his seahorse in the middle of the
00:39:02party had sent it or released it as if he had been holding it back till then in his hand or on his wrist
00:39:10why i do declare said lucy it's a hunting party or more like a hawking party yes that's it they ride
00:39:19out with these little fierce fish on their wrists just as we used to ride out with falcons on our wrists
00:39:25when we were kings and queens at care panaville long ago and then they fly them or i suppose i should
00:39:32say swim them at the others how she stopped suddenly because the scene was changing the sea people had noticed
00:39:43the dawn treader the shoal of fish had scattered in every direction the people themselves were coming
00:39:50up to find out the meaning of this big black thing which had come between them and the sun
00:39:55and now they were so close to the surface that if they had been in air instead of water lucy could
00:40:02have spoken to them they were men and women both all wore coronets of some kind and many had chains of
00:40:10pearls they wore no other clothes their bodies were the color of old ivory their hair dark purple the king
00:40:20in the center no one could mistake him for anything but the king looked proudly and fiercely into lucy's
00:40:27face and shook a spear in his hand his knights did the same the faces of the ladies were filled with
00:40:34astonishment lucy felt sure they had never seen a ship or a human before and how should they in
00:40:42seas beyond the world's end where no ships ever came what are you staring at lou said a voice close
00:40:51beside her lucy had been so absorbed in what she was seeing that she started at the sound and when she
00:40:57turned she found that her arm had gone dead from leaning so long on the rail in one position drinnian
00:41:05and edmund were beside her look she said they both looked but almost at once drinnian said in a low voice
00:41:14turn round at once your majesty's that's right with your backs to the sea and don't look as if you were
00:41:22talking about anything important why what's the matter said lucy as she obeyed it'll never do for the
00:41:32sailors to see all that said drinnian we'll have men falling in love with a sea woman or falling in love
00:41:40with the undersea country itself and jumping overboard i've heard of that kind of thing happening before
00:41:46in strange seas it's always unlucky to see these people but we used to know them said lucy in the
00:41:56old days at care parable when my brother peter was high king they came to the surface and sang at our
00:42:03coronation i think that must have been a different kind lou said edmund they could live in the air as
00:42:11well as under water i rather think these can't by the look of them they'd have surfaced and started
00:42:17attacking us long ago if they could they seemed very fierce at any rate said drinnian but at that moment
00:42:26two sounds were heard one was a plop the other was a voice from the fighting top shouting mine
00:42:35overboard then everyone was busy some of the sailors had it aloft to take in the sails others had it
00:42:42below to get out the oars and rinse who was on duty on the poop began to put the helm hard over so
00:42:48as to come round and back to the man who had gone overboard but by now everyone knew that it wasn't
00:42:55strictly a man it was reepy cheap rat that mouse said drinnian he's more trouble than all the rest of
00:43:05the ship's company put together if there is any scrape to be got into in he will get he ought to
00:43:11be put in irons keel hoard marooned have his whiskers cut off can anyone see the little blighter
00:43:18all this didn't mean that drinnian really disliked reepy cheap on the contrary he liked him very much
00:43:23and was therefore frightened about him and being frightened put him in a bad temper just as your
00:43:30mother is much angrier with you for running out into the road in front of a car than a stranger would
00:43:35be no one of course was afraid of reepy cheap's drowning for he was an excellent swimmer but the
00:43:41three who knew what was going on below the water were afraid of those long cruel spears in the hands of
00:43:48the sea people in a few minutes the dawn trader had come round and everyone could see the black blob in
00:43:56the water which was reepy cheap he was chattering with the greatest excitement but as his mouth kept
00:44:02on getting filled with water nobody could understand what he was saying you'll blurt the whole thing out
00:44:07if we don't shut him up cried drinnian to prevent this he rushed to the side and lowered a rope himself
00:44:14shouting to the sailors all right all right back to your places i hope i can even mouse up without help
00:44:22and as reepy cheap began climbing up the rope not very nimbly because his wet fur made him heavy
00:44:28drinnian leant over and whispered to him don't tell not a word but when the dripping mouse had reached
00:44:38the deck he turned out not to be at all interested in the sea people sweet he cheeped sweet sweet
00:44:48what are you talking about asked drinnian crossly and you needn't shake yourself all over me either
00:44:56i tell you the water's sweet said the mouse sweet fresh it isn't salt for a moment no one quite took in
00:45:06the importance of this but then reepy cheap once more repeated the old prophecy where the waves grew
00:45:14sweet doubt not reepy cheap there is the utter east then at last everyone understood
00:45:26let me have a bucket rhinelf said drinnian it was handed him and he lowered it and up it came again
00:45:34the water shone in it like glass perhaps your majesty would like to taste it first said drinnian to
00:45:42caspian the king took the bucket in both hands raised it to his lips sipped then drank deeply and raised
00:45:50his head his face was changed not only his eyes but everything about him seemed to be brighter yes he said
00:46:01it is sweet that's real water that i'm not sure that it isn't going to kill me but it is the death i would
00:46:09have chosen if i'd known about it till now what do you mean asked edmund it's it's like light more
00:46:21than anything else said caspian that is what it is said reepy cheap drinkable light we must be very
00:46:30near the end of the world now there was a moment's silence and then lucy knelt down on the deck and drank
00:46:38from the bucket it's the loveliest thing i have ever tasted she said with a kind of gasp but oh it's
00:46:48strong we shan't need to eat anything now and one by one everybody on board drank and for a long time
00:46:59they were all silent they felt almost too well and strong to bear it and presently they began to notice
00:47:06another result as i have said before there had been too much light ever since they left the island of
00:47:13ramandu the sun too large though not too hot the sea too bright the air too shining now the light grew no
00:47:25less if anything had increased but they could bear it they could look straight up at the sun without
00:47:33blinking they could see more light than they had ever seen before and the deck and the sail and their own
00:47:40faces and bodies became brighter and brighter and every rope shone and the next morning when the sun
00:47:47rose now five or six times its old size they stared hard into it and could see the very feathers of the
00:47:56birds that came flying from it hardly a word was spoken on board all that day till about dinner time
00:48:04no one wanted any dinner the water was enough for them when drinian said i can't understand this there
00:48:13is not a breath of wind the sail hangs dead the sea is as flat as a pond and yet we drive on as
00:48:22fast as if there were a gale behind us i've been thinking that too said caspian we must be caught in some
00:48:30strong current hmm said edmund that's not so nice if the world really has an edge and we're getting
00:48:38near it you mean said caspian that we might be just well poured over it yes yes said reepy cheap clapping
00:48:49his paws together that's how i've always imagined it the world like a great round table and the waters of
00:48:56all the oceans endlessly pouring over the edge the ship will tip up stand on our head for one moment
00:49:04we shall see over the edge and then down down the rush the speed and what do you think will be waiting
00:49:14for us at the bottom eh said drinian hasland's country perhaps said the mouse his eyes shining
00:49:22or perhaps there isn't any bottom perhaps it goes down for ever and ever but whatever it is won't it
00:49:30be worth anything just to have looked for one moment beyond the edge of the world but look here
00:49:38said eustace this is all rot the world's round i mean round like a ball not like a table our world is
00:49:49said edmund but is this do you mean to say asked caspian that you three come from a round world round
00:49:58like a ball and you've never told me it's really too bad of you because we have fairy tales in which
00:50:05there are round worlds and i always loved them i never believed there were any real ones but i've
00:50:11always wished there were and i've always longed to live in one oh i'd give anything i wonder why
00:50:20you can get into our world and we never get into yours if only i had the chance it must be exciting to
00:50:30live on a thing like a ball have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside down
00:50:36edmund shook his head and it isn't like that he added there's nothing particularly exciting about a
00:50:42round world when you're there
00:50:49chapter 16 the very end of the world
00:50:52reepy cheap was the only person on board besides drinian and the two pevensies who had noticed the
00:51:01sea people he had dived in at once when he saw the sea king shaking his spear for he regarded this as
00:51:07a sort of threat or challenge and wanted to have the matter out there and then the excitement of
00:51:13discovering that the water was now fresh had distracted his attention and before he remembered the
00:51:19sea people again lucy and drinian had taken him aside and warned him not to mention what he had seen
00:51:26as things turned out they need hardly have bothered for by this time the dawn-treader was gliding over
00:51:32a part of the sea which seemed to be uninhabited no one except lucy saw anything more of the people
00:51:39and even she had only one short glimpse all morning on the following day they sailed in fairly
00:51:45shallow water and the bottom was weedy just before midday lucy saw a large shoal of fishes grazing on
00:51:52the weed they were all eating steadily and all moving in the same direction just like a flock of sheep
00:52:00thought lucy suddenly she saw a little sea girl of about her own age in the middle of them a quiet lonely
00:52:08looking girl with a sort of crook in her hand lucy felt sure that this girl must be a shepherdess or
00:52:16perhaps a fisher-dess and that the shoal was really a flock at pasture both the fishes and the girl were
00:52:23quite close to the surface and just as the girl gliding in the shallow water and lucy leaning over the
00:52:29bulwark came opposite to one another the girl looked up and stared straight into lucy's face
00:52:35neither could speak to the other and in a moment the sea girl dropped astern but lucy will never
00:52:41forget her face it did not look frightened or angry like the other sea people lucy had liked that girl
00:52:50and she felt certain the girl had liked her in that one moment they had somehow become friends there does
00:52:58not seem to be much chance of their meeting again in that world or any other but if ever they do
00:53:05they will rush together with their hands held out after that for many days without wind in her shrouds
00:53:13or foam at her bows across a waveless sea the dawn-treader glided smoothly east every day and every hour
00:53:23the light became more brilliant and still they could bear it no one ate or slept and no one wanted to but
00:53:31they drew buckets of dazzling water from the sea stronger than wine and somehow wetter more liquid than
00:53:38ordinary water and pledged one another silently in deep drafts of it and one or two of the sailors who
00:53:45who had been oldish men when the voyage began now grew younger every day everyone on board was filled
00:53:53with joy and excitement but not an excitement that made one talk the further they sailed the less they
00:54:00spoke and then almost in a whisper the stillness of that last sea laid hold on them
00:54:08my lord said caspian to drinian one day what do you see ahead
00:54:13sire said drinian i see whiteness all along the horizon from north to south as far as my eyes can
00:54:24reach that is what i see too said caspian and i cannot imagine what it is if we were in higher
00:54:34latitude your majesty said drinian i would say it was ice but it can't be that not here all the same
00:54:43we better get men to the oars and hold the ship back against the current whatever the stuff is we
00:54:50don't want to crash into it at this speed they did as drinian said and so continued to go slower and
00:54:58slower the whiteness did not get any less mysterious as they approached it if it was land it must be very
00:55:06strange land for it seemed just as smooth as the water and on the same level with it when they got
00:55:13very close to it drinian put the helm hard over and turned the dawn treader south so that she was
00:55:19broadside on to the current and rode a little way southward along the edge of the whiteness
00:55:25in so doing they accidentally made the important discovery that the current was only about forty
00:55:31feet wide and the rest of the sea as still as a pond this was good news for the crew who had already
00:55:39begun to think that the return journey to ramandu's land rowing against stream all the way will be pretty
00:55:45poor sport it also explained why the shepherd girl had dropped so quickly astern she was not in the
00:55:53current if she had been she would have been moving east at the same speed as the ship and still no one
00:56:01could make out what the white stuff was then the boat was lowered and it put off to investigate those
00:56:08who remained on the dawn treader could see that the boat pushed right in among the whiteness then they could
00:56:14hear the voices of the party in the boat clear across the still water talking in a shrill and surprised
00:56:19way then there was a pause while ranelph in the bows of the boat took a sounding and when after that
00:56:27the boat came rowing back there seemed to be plenty of the white stuff inside her everyone crowded to
00:56:33the side to the side to hear the news lilies your majesty shouted ranelph standing up in the bows
00:56:41what did you say asked caspian blooming lilies your majesty said ryan elf same as in a pool or in a garden
00:56:51at home look said lucy who was in the stern of the boat she held up her wet arms full of white petals
00:57:00and broad flat leaves what's the depth ryan elf asked drinnian that's the funny thing captain said
00:57:09rhino it's still deep three and a half fathoms clear they can't be real lilies not what we call
00:57:18lilies said eustace probably they were not but they were very like them and when after some consultation
00:57:27the dawn trader turned back into the current and began to glide eastward through the lily lake or the silver
00:57:33sea they tried both these names but it was the silver sea that stuck and is now on caspian's map
00:57:40the strangest part of their travels began very soon the open sea which they were leaving was only a thin
00:57:48rim of blue on the western horizon whiteness shot with faintest color of gold spread around them on
00:57:55every side except just a stern where their passage had thrust the lilies apart and left an open lane
00:58:02of water that shone like dark green glass to look at this last sea was very like the arctic and if their
00:58:10eyes had not by now grown as strong as eagles the sun or all that whiteness especially at early morning
00:58:18when the sun was hugest would have been unbearable and every evening the same whiteness made the daylight
00:58:24last longer there seemed no end to the lilies day after day from all those miles and leaves of flowers
00:58:34there rose a smell which lucy found very hard to describe sweet yes but not at all sleepy or overpowering
00:58:44a fresh wild lonely smell that seemed to get into your brain and make you feel that you could go up
00:58:52mountains that have run or wrestle with an elephant she and caspian said to one another
00:58:57i feel that i can't stand much more of this yet i don't want it to stop they took soundings very often
00:59:07but it was only several days later that the water became shallower after that it went on getting
00:59:14shallower there came a day when they had to row out of the current and feel their way forward at a
00:59:19snail's pace rowing and soon it was clear that the dawn-treader could sail no farther east indeed it was
00:59:29only by very clever handling that they saved her from grounding lower the boat cried caspian and then
00:59:36call the men aft i must speak to them what's he going to do whispered eustace to edmund there's a queer
00:59:44look in his eyes i think we probably all look the same said edmund they joined caspian on the poop
00:59:52and soon all the men were crowded together at the foot of the ladder to hear the king's speech
00:59:58friends said caspian we have now fulfilled the quest on which you embarked the seven lords are all
01:00:06accounted for and as siripicheep has sworn never to return when you reach ramandu's land you will
01:00:12doubtless find the lords revilion and argos and maveramorn awake to you my lord drinnian i entrust
01:00:20this ship bidding you sail to narnia with all the speed you may and above all not to land on the
01:00:27island of death water and instruct my regent the dwarf trumpkin to give to all these my shipmates the
01:00:33rewards i promised them they have been earned well and if i come not again it is my will that the
01:00:40regent and master cornelius and truffle hunter the badger and the lord drinnian choose a king of narnia
01:00:48with the consent but sire interrupted drinnian are you abdicating i am going with reepicheep to see the
01:00:57world's end said caspian a low murmur of dismay ran through the sailors we will take the boat said
01:01:06caspian you will have no need of it in these gentle seas and you must build a new one in ramandu's island
01:01:13and now caspian said edmund suddenly and sternly you can't do this
01:01:21most certainly said reepicheep his majesty cannot
01:01:26no indeed said drinnian
01:01:30can't said caspian sharply looking for a moment not unlike his uncle miraz
01:01:35pegging your majesty's pardon said ranelf from the deck below but if one of us did the same it would
01:01:44be called deserting you presume too much on your long service right elf said caspian no sire he's
01:01:54perfectly right said drinnian by the main of aslan said caspian i had thought you were all my subjects
01:02:02here not my school masters i'm not said edmund and i say you cannot do this can't again said caspian
01:02:14what do you mean if it please your majesty we mean shall not said reepicheep with a very low bow
01:02:22you are the king of narnia you break faith with all your subjects and especially trumpkin
01:02:29if you do not return you shall not please yourself with adventures as if you were a private person
01:02:36and if your majesty will not hear reason it will be the truest loyalty of every man on board to follow
01:02:42me in disarming and binding you till you come to your senses
01:02:46quite right said edmund like they did with ulysses when he wanted to go near the sirens
01:02:54caspian's hand had gone to his sword hilt when lucy said
01:02:59and you've almost promised ramandu's daughter to go back
01:03:03caspian paused well yes there is that he said he stood irresolute for a moment and then shouted out
01:03:15to the ship in general well have your way the quest is ended we all return get the boat up again
01:03:23sire said reepicheep we do not all return i as i explained before silence thundered caspian
01:03:37i've been lessened but i'll not be baited will no one silence that mouse
01:03:44your majesty promised said reepicheep to be a good lord to the talking beasts of narnia
01:03:50talking beasts yes said caspian i said nothing about beasts that never stop talking
01:03:58and he flung down the ladder in a temper and went into the cabin slamming the door
01:04:04but when the others rejoined him a little later they found him changed he was white and there were
01:04:10tears in his eyes it's no good he said i might as well have behaved decently for all the good i did with
01:04:18my temper and swagger aslan has spoken to me no i don't mean he was actually here he wouldn't fit
01:04:27into the cabin for one thing but that gold lion's head on the wall came to life and spoke to me
01:04:33it was terrible his eyes not that he was at all rough with me only a bit stern at first but it was
01:04:42terrible all the same and he said he said oh i can't bear it the worst thing he could have said
01:04:52you're to go on reap and edmund and lucy and eustace and i'm to go back alone and at once and what is the
01:05:04good of anything caspian dear said lucy you knew we'd have to go back to our own world sooner or later
01:05:16yes said caspian with a sob but this is sooner
01:05:24you'll feel better when you get back to ramandu's island said lucy
01:05:29he cheered up a little later on but it was a grievous parting on both sides and i will not dwell
01:05:37on it about two o'clock in the afternoon well bittled and watered though they thought they would
01:05:43need neither food nor drink and with reepy cheap's coracle on board the boat pulled away from the dawn
01:05:50treader to row through the endless carpet of lilies the dawn treader flew all her flags and hung out her
01:05:58shields to honor their departure tall and big and home-like she looked from their low position
01:06:04with the lilies all around them and before she was out of sight they saw her turn and begin rowing
01:06:12slowly westward yet though lucy shed a few tears she could not feel it as much as you might have expected
01:06:19the light the silence the tingling smell of the silver sea even in some odd way the loneliness itself
01:06:29were too exciting there was no need to row for the current drifted them steadily to the east
01:06:36none of them slept or ate all that night and all next day they glided eastward and when the third day
01:06:44dawned with a brightness you or i could not bear even if we had dark glasses on they saw a wonder ahead
01:06:53it was as if a wall stood up between them and the sky a greenish gray trembling shimmering wall then up
01:07:03came the sun and at its first rising they saw it through the wall and it turned into wonderful rainbow
01:07:12colors then they knew that the wall was really a long tall wave a wave endlessly fixed in one place
01:07:22as you may often see at the edge of a waterfall it seemed to be about thirty feet high and the current
01:07:28was gliding them swiftly towards it you might have supposed they would have thought of their danger
01:07:34they didn't i don't think anyone could have in their position for now they saw something not only behind
01:07:42the wave but behind the sun they could not have seen even the sun if their eyes had not been strengthened
01:07:49by the water of the last sea but now they could look at the rising sun and see it clearly and see things
01:07:57beyond it what they saw eastward beyond the sun was a range of mountains it was so high that either they
01:08:06never saw the top of it or they forgot it none of them remembers seeing any sky in that direction
01:08:14and the mountains must really have been outside the world for any mountains even a quarter of a
01:08:20twentieth of that height ought to have had ice and snow on them but these were warm and green and full
01:08:26of forests and waterfalls however high you looked and suddenly there came a breeze from the east tossing
01:08:34the top of the wave into foamy shapes and ruffling the smooth water all around them it lasted only a
01:08:40second or so but what it brought them in that second none of these three children will ever forget
01:08:46it brought both a smell and a sound a musical sound edmund and eustace would never talk about it
01:08:56afterwards lucy could only say it would break your heart why said i was it so sad sad no said lucy
01:09:11no one in that boat doubted that they were seeing beyond the end of the world into aslan's country
01:09:22at that moment with a crunch the boat ran aground the water was too shallow now for it
01:09:29this said reepy cheap is where i go on alone they did not even try to stop him but everything now felt as
01:09:38as if it had been fated or had happened before they helped him to lower his little coracle then he took
01:09:45off his sword i shall need it no more he said and flung it far away across the lilied sea where it fell
01:09:54it stood upright with the hilt above the surface then he bade them goodbye trying to be sad for their
01:10:02sakes but he was quivering with happiness lucy for the first and last time did what she had always
01:10:12wanted to do taking him in her arms and caressing him then hastily he got into his coracle and took his
01:10:19paddle and the current caught it and away he went very black against the lilies but no lilies grew on the
01:10:28wave it was a smooth green slope the coracle went more and more quickly and beautifully it rushed up
01:10:36the wave's side for one split second they saw its shape and reepy cheeps on the very top then it vanished
01:10:44and since that moment no one can truly claim to have seen reepy cheap the mouse but my belief
01:10:51is that he came safe to aslan's country and is alive there to this day as the sun rose the sight of
01:10:59those mountains outside the world faded away the wave remained but there was only blue sky behind it
01:11:09the children got out of the boat and waded not towards the wave but southward with the wall of
01:11:16water on their left they could not have told you why they did this it was their fate and though they
01:11:23had felt and been very grown up on the dawn-treader they now felt just the opposite and held hands as
01:11:31they waded through the lilies they never felt tired the water was warm and all the time it got shallower
01:11:38at last they were on dry sand and then on grass a huge plain of very fine short grass almost level
01:11:47with the silver sea and spreading in every direction without so much as a molehill and of course as it
01:11:56always does in a perfectly flat place without trees it looked as if the sky came down to meet the grass in
01:12:03front of them but as they went on they got the strangest impression that here at last the sky
01:12:10really did come down and join the earth a blue wall very bright but real and solid more like glass than
01:12:20anything else and soon they were quite sure of it it was very near now but between them and the foot of
01:12:27the sky there was something so white on the green grass that even with their eagle's eyes they could
01:12:32hardly look at it they came on and saw that it was a lamb come and have breakfast said the lamb in its
01:12:43sweet milky voice then they noticed for the first time that there was a fire lit on the grass and fish
01:12:51roasting on it they sat down and ate the fish hungry now for the first time for many days and it was the
01:12:59most delicious food they had ever tasted please lamb said lucy is this the way to aslan's country
01:13:07not for you said the lamb for you the door into aslan's country is from your own world what said edmund is
01:13:21there a way into aslan's country from our world too there is a way into my country from all the worlds said
01:13:29the lamb but as he spoke his snowy white flushed into tawny gold and his size changed and it was aslan
01:13:39himself towering above them and scattering light from his mane oh aslan said lucy will you tell us how to
01:13:50get into your country from our world i shall be telling you all the time said aslan but i will
01:14:00not tell you how long or short the way will be only that it lies across a river but do not fear that
01:14:11for i am the great bridge builder and now come i will open the door in the sky and send you to your
01:14:22own land please aslan said lucy before we go will you tell us when we can come back to narnia again
01:14:31please please and oh do do do make it soon dearest said aslan very gently you and your brother will never
01:14:48come back to narnia oh aslan said edmund and lucy both together in despairing voices
01:14:58you are too old children said aslan and you must begin to come close to your own world now
01:15:13it isn't narnia you know sob lucy it's you we shan't meet you there and how can we live never meeting
01:15:23you but you shall meet me dear one said aslan are are you there too sir said edmund i am said aslan but
01:15:38there i have another name you must learn to know me by that name this was the very reason why you were
01:15:47brought to narnia that by knowing me here for a little you may know me better there and is eustace
01:15:57never to come back here either said lucy child said aslan do you really need to know that come i am opening
01:16:09the door in the door in the sky then all in one moment there was a rending of the blue wall like a
01:16:17curtain being torn and a terrible white light from beyond the sky and the feel of aslan's mane and a
01:16:24lion's kiss on their foreheads and then the back bedroom in aunt alberta's home in cambridge
01:16:32only two more things need to be told one is that caspian and his men all came safely back to ramandu's
01:16:41island and the three lords woke from their sleep caspian married ramandu's daughter and they all
01:16:49reached narnia in the end and she became a great queen and the mother and grandmother of great kings
01:16:56the other is that back in our own world everyone soon started saying how eustace had improved and how
01:17:06you'd never know him for the same boy everyone except aunt alberta who said he had become very
01:17:15commonplace and tiresome and it must have been the influence of those pevensey children
01:17:26for you
Comments