The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

There was a great deal more talk, but it all ended with the agreement that Caspian should
stay and even the promise that, as soon as he was able to go out, he should be taken to see
what Trumpkin called "the Others"; for apparently in these wild parts all sorts of
creatures from the Old Days of Narnia still lived on in hiding.
CHAPTER SIX
THE PEOPLE THAT LIVED IN HIDING
Now began the happiest times that Caspian had ever known. On a fine summer morning
when the dew lay on the grass he set off with the Badger and the two Dwarfs, up through
the forest to a high saddle in the mountains and down on to their sunny southern slopes
where one looked across the green wolds of Archenland.
"We will go first to the Three Bulgy Bears," said Trumpkin.
They came in a glade to an old hollow oak tree covered with moss, and Trufflehunter
tapped with his paw three times on the trunk and there was no answer. Then he tapped
again and a woolly sort of voice from inside said, "Go away. It's not time to get up yet."
But when he tapped the third time there was a noise like a small earthquake from inside
and a sort of door opened and out came three brown bears, very bulgy indeed and
blinking their little eyes. And when everything had been explained to them (which took a
long time because they were so sleepy) they said, just as Trufflehunter had said, that a
son of Adam ought to be King of Narnia and all kissed Caspian - very wet, snuffly kisses
they were - and offered him some honey. Caspian did not really want honey, without
bread, at that time in the morning, but he thought it polite to accept. It took him a long
time afterwards to get unsticky.
After that they went on till they came among tall beech trees and Trufflehunter called out,
"Pattertwig! Pattertwig! Pattertwig!" and almost at once, bounding down from branch to
branch till he was just above their heads, came the most magnificent red squirrel that
Caspian had ever seen. He was far bigger than the ordinary dumb squirrels which he had
sometimes seen in the castle gardens; indeed he was nearly the size of a terrier and the
moment you looked in his face you saw that he could talk. Indeed the difficulty was to
get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer. He welcomed Caspian at
once and asked if he would like a nut and Caspian said thanks, he would. But as
Pattertwig went bounding away to fetch it, Trufflehunter whispered in Caspian's ear,
"Don't look. Look the other way. It's very bad manners among squirrels to watch anyone
going to his store or to look as if you wanted to know where it was." Then Pattertwig
came back with the nut and Caspian ate it and after that Pattertwig asked if he could take
any messages to other friends. "For I can go nearly everywhere without setting foot to
ground," he said. Trufflehunter and the Dwarfs thought this a very good idea and gave
Pattertwig messages to all sorts of people with queer names telling them all to come to a