The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

Hill, carrying on his back a basketful of rather sea-sick Dwarfs who had accepted his
offer of a lift and were now wishing they had walked instead.
The Bulgy Bears were very anxious to have the feast first and leave the council till
afterwards: perhaps till tomorrow. Reepicheep and his Mice said that councils and feasts
could both wait, and proposed storming Miraz in his own castle that very night.
Pattertwig and the other Squirrels said they could talk and eat at the same time, so why
not have the council and feast all at once? The Moles proposed throwing up
entrenchments round the Lawn before they did anything else. The Fauns thought it would
be better to begin with a solemn dance. The Old Raven, while agreeing with the Bears
that it would take too long to have a full council before supper, begged to be allowed to
give a brief address to the whole company. But Caspian and the Centaurs and the Dwarfs
overruled all these suggestions and insisted on holding a real council of war at once.
When all the other creatures had been persuaded to sit down quietly in a great circle, and
when (with more difficulty) they had got Pattertwig to stop running to and fro and saying
"Silence! Silence, everyone, for the King's speech", Caspian, feeling a little nervous, got
up. "Narnians!" he began, but he never got any further, for at that very moment Camillo
the Hare said, "Hush! There's a Man somewhere near."
They were all creatures of the wild, accustomed to being hunted, and they all became still
as statues. The beasts all turned their noses in the direction which Camillo had indicated.
"Smells like Man and yet not quite like Man," whispered Trufflehunter.
"It's getting steadily nearer," said Camillo.
"Two badgers and you three Dwarfs, with your bows at the - ready, go softly off to meet
it," said Caspian.
"We'll settle 'un," said a Black Dwarf grimly, fitting a shaft to his bowstring.
"Don't shoot if it is alone," said Caspian. "Catch it."
"Why?" asked the Dwarf.
"Do as you're told," said Glenstorm the Centaur.
Everyone waited in silence while the three Dwarfs and two Badgers trotted stealthily
across to the trees on the northwest side of the Lawn. Then came a sharp dwarfish cry,
"Stop! Who goes there?" and a sudden spring. A moment later a voice, which Caspian
knew well, could he heard saying, "All right, all right, I'm unarmed. Take my wrists if
you like, worthy Badgers, but don't bite right through them. I want to speak to the King."
"Doctor Cornelius!" cried Caspian with joy, and rushed forward to greet his old tutor.
Everyone else crowded round.