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“Now，”said Edmund，“what about those sandwiches？”
“Oh，hadn’t we better have them？”said Susan．“We may need them far worse later on．”
“I do wish，”said Lucy，“now that we’re not thirsty，we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty．”
“But what about those sandwiches？”repeated Edmund．
“there’s no good saving them till they go bad．You’ve got to remember it’s a good deal hotter here than in England and we’ve been carrying them about in pockets for hours．”So they got out the two packets and divided them into four portions，and nobody had quite enough，but it was a great deal better than nothing．Then they talked about their plans for the next meal．Lucy wanted to go back to the sea and catch shrimps，until someone pointed out that they had no nets．Edmund said they must gather gulls’ eggs from the rocks，but when they came to think of it they couldn’t remember having seen any gulls’ eggs and wouldn’t be able to cook them if they found any．Peter thought to himself that unless they had some stroke of luck they would soon be glad to eat eggs raw，but he didn’t see any point in saying this out loud．Susan said it was a pity they had eaten the sandwiches so soon．One or two tempers very nearly got lost at this stage．Finally Edmund said:
“Look here．There’s only one thing to be done．We must explore the wood．Hermits and knights-errant and people like that always manage to live somehow if they’re in a forest．They find roots and berries and things．”
“What sort of roots？”asked Susan．
“I always thought it meant roots of trees，”said Lucy．
“Come on，”said Peter，“Ed is right．And we must try to do something．And it’ll be better than going out into the glare and the sun again．”
So they all got up and began to follow the stream．It was very hard work．They had to stoop under branches and climb over branches，and they blundered through great masses of stuff like rhododendrons and tore their clothes and got their feet wet in the stream; and still there was no noise at all except the noise of the stream and the noises they were making themselves．They were beginning to get very tired of it when they noticed a delicious smell，and then a flash of bright colour high above them at the top of the right bank．
