chater eleven the ace icken (第3/5页)
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Eustace could never remember what happened in the next two minutes. It was all like a dream the sort you have when your temperature is over 100 until he heard Rishda Tarkaan’s voice calling out from the distance：
“Retire. Back hither and re-form.”
Then Eustace came to his senses and saw the Calormenes scampering back to their friends. But not all of them. Two lay dead，pierced by Jewel’s horn，one by Tirian’s sword. The Fox lay dead at his own feet，and he wondered if it was he who had killed it. The Bull also was down，shot through the eye by an arrow from Jill and gashed in his side by the Boar’s tusk. But our side had its losses too. Three dogs were killed and a fourth was hobbling behind the line on three legs and whimpering. The Bear lay on the ground，moving feebly. Then it mumbled in its throaty voice， bewildered to the last，“I-I don’t understand，”laid its big head down on the grass as quietly as a child going to sleep，and never moved again．
In fact，the first attack had failed. Eustace didn’t seem able to be glad about it：he was so terribly thirsty and his arm ached so．
As the defeated Calormenes went back to their commander， the Dwarfs began jeering at them．
“Had enough，Darkies ？”they yelled.“Don’t you like it ？ Why doesn’t your great Tarkaan go and fight himself instead of sending you to be killed ？Poor Darkies!”
“Dwarfs，”cried Tirian.“Come here and use your swords，not your tongues. There is still time. Dwarfs of Narnia! You can fight well，I know. Come back to your allegiance.”
“Yah!”sneered the Dwarfs.“Not likely. You’re just as big humbugs as the other lot. We don’t want any Kings. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs. Boo!”
Then the Drum began：not a Dwarf drum this time，but a big bull’s hide Calormene drum. The children from the very first hated the sound. Boom-boom-ba-ba-boom it went. But they would have hated it far worse if they had known what it meant. Tirian did. It meant that there were other Calormene troops somewhere near and that Rishda Tarkaan was calling them to his aid. Tirian and Jewel looked at one another sadly. They had just begun to hope that they might win that night：but it would be all over with them if new enemies appeared．
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