CHAPTER EIGHT（第1 / 4页）

quot;AND no; said Lucy, quot;do please tell us umnus.”

quot;As bad,quot; said Mr Beaver, s;ts a very, very bad business.

t aken off by t t from a bird w done.”

quot;But o?quot; asked Lucy.

quot;ell, t seen and means.”

quot;No, ,quot; said Susan. Mr Beaver shook his head in a very gloomy fashion.

quot;Im afraid it means taking o ; he said.

quot;But o ; gasped Lucy.

quot;ell,quot; said Mr Beaver, quot;you cant exactly say for sure. But t many taken in t ever comes out again. Statues. All full of statues t is - in tyard and up tairs and in turnedquot; - (;turned into stone.”

quot;But, Mr Beaver,quot; said Lucy, quot;cant do someto save s too dreadful and its all on my account.”

quot;I dont doubt youd save ; said Mrs Beaver, quot;but youve no cting into t

alive.”

quot;Couldnt agem?quot; said Peter. quot;I mean couldnt end to be - ocill s - or- o all, t be some er at just leave o be - to be - to done to him.”

quot;Its no good, Son of Adam,quot; said Mr Beaver, quot;no good your trying, of all people. But no Aslan is on the move-”

quot;Oell us about Aslan!quot; said several voices at once; for once again t strange feeling - like t signs of spring, like good news, hem.

quot;; asked Susan.

quot;Aslan?quot; said Mr Beaver. quot; you kno often and. Never in my time or my fatime.

But t t. tle te Queen all rig is you, t umnus.”

quot;S turn o stone too?quot; said Edmund.

quot;Lord love you, Son of Adam, o say!quot; ans laug;turn o stone? If sand on and look ll be t s of all to rig says in an old rs: rong teeter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

Youll understand when you see him.”

quot;But s; asked Susan.

quot;er of Eve, ts w I brougo lead you w ; said Mr Beaver.

quot;Is-is ; asked Lucy.

quot;Aslan a man!quot; said Mr Beaver sternly. quot;Certainly not. I tell you Emperor-beyond-t you kno Lion