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“Not he,”said the Dwarf.“I saw the face and I heard the snarl.He only wanted Little Girl for his breakfast.And talking of breakfast,I didn’t want to discourage your Majesties when you said you hoped King Caspian would give you a good one: but meat’s precious scarce in camp.And there’s good eating on a bear.It would be a shame to leave the carcass without taking a bit,and it won’t delay us more than half an hour.I dare say you two youngsters—Kings,I should say—know how to skin a bear?”
“Let’s go and sit down a fair way off,”said Susan to Lucy.“I know what a horrid messy business that will be.”Lucy shuddered and nodded.When they had sat down she said:“Such a horrible idea has come into my head,Su.”
“What’s that?”
“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world,at home,men started going wild inside,like the animals here,and still looked like men,so that you’d never know which were which?”
“We’ve got enough to bother about here and now in Narnia,”
said the practical Susan,“without imagining things like that.”
When they rejoined the boys and the Dwarf,as much as they thought they could carry of the best meat had been cut off.Raw meat is not a nice thing to fill one’s pockets with,but they folded it up in fresh leaves and made the best of it.They were all experienced enough to know that they would feel quite differently about these squashy and unpleasant parcels when they had walked long enough to be really hungry.
On they trudged again stopping to wash three pairs of hands that needed it in the first stream they passed until the sun rose and the birds began to sing,and more flies than they wanted were buzzing in the bracken.The stiffness from yesterday’s rowing began to wear off.Everybody’s spirits rose.The sun grew warmer
and they took their helmets off and carried them.