chater elve trawberry’ adventure (第2/7页)
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“Yes,sir,”said Digory again.He hadn’t the least idea of how he was to climb the cliff and find his way among all the mountains,but he didn’t like to say that for fear it would sound like making excuses.But he did say,“I hope,Aslan,you’re not in a hurry.I shan’t be able to get there and back very quickly.”
“Little son of Adam,you shall have help,”said Aslan.He then turned to the Horse who had been standing quietly beside them all this time,swishing his tail to keep the flies off,and listening with his head on one side as if the conversation were a little difficult to understand.
“My dear,”said Aslan to the Horse,“would you like to be a winged horse ?”
You should have seen how the Horse shook its mane and how its nostrils widened,and the little tap it gave the ground with one back hoof.Clearly it would very much like to be a winged horse. But it only said:
“If you wish,Aslan-if you really mean-I don’t know why it should be me-I’m not a very clever horse.”
“Be winged.Be the father of all flying horses,”roared Aslan in a voice that shook the ground.“Your name is Fledge.”
The horse shied,just as it might have shied in the old, miserable days when it pulled a hansom.Then it roared.It strained its neck back as if there were a fly biting its shoulders and it wanted to scratch them.And then,just as the beasts had burst out of the earth,there burst out from the shoulders of Fledge wings that spread and grew,larger than eagles’,larger than swans’, larger than angels’ wings in church windows.The feathers shone chestnut colour and copper colour.He gave a great sweep with them and leaped into the air.Twenty feet above Aslan and Digory he snorted,neighed,and curvetted.Then,after circling once round them,he dropped to the earth,all four hoofs together, looking awkward and surprised,but extremely pleased.
“Is it good,Fledge ?”said Aslan.
“It is very good,Aslan,”said Fledge.
“Will you carry this little son of Adam on your back to the mountain—valley I spoke of ?”