The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

grown over their eyes till it almost concealed their, faces, and their beards had grown
over the table, climbing pound and entwining plates and goblets as brambles; entwine a
fence, until, all mixed in one great mat of hair, they flowed over the edge and down to the
floor. And from their heads the hair hung over the backs of their chairs so that they were
wholly hidden. In fact the three men were; nearly all hair.
"Dead?" said Caspian.
"I think not, Sire," said Reepicheep, lifting one of their hands out of its tangle of hair in
his two paws. "This one is warm and his pulse beats."
"This one, too, and this," said Drinian.
"Why, they're only asleep," said Eustace.
"It's been a long sleep, though," said Edmund, "to let their hair grow like this."
"It must be an enchanted sleep," said Lucy. "I felt the moment we landed on this island
that it was full of magic. Oh! do you think we have perhaps come here to break it?"
"We can try," said Caspian, and began shaking the nearest of the three sleepers. For a
moment everyone thought he was going to be successful, for the man breathed hard and
muttered, "I'll go eastward no more. Out oars for Narnia." But he sank back almost at
once into a yet deeper sleep than before: that is, his heavy head sagged a few inches
lower towards the table and all efforts to rouse him again were useless. With the second it
was much the same. "Weren't born to live like animals. Get to the east while you've a
chance - lands behind the sun," and sank down. And the third only said, "Mustard,
please," and slept hard.
"Out oars for Narnia, eh?" said Drinian.
"Yes," said Caspian, "you are right, Drinian. I think our quest is at an end. Let's look at
their rings. Yes, these are their devices. This is the Lord Revilian. This is the Lord Argoz:
and this, the Lord Mavramorn."
"But we can't wake them," said Lucy. "What are we to do?"
"Begging your Majesties' pardons all," said Rhince, "but why not fall to while you're
discussing it? We don't see a dinner like this every day."
"Not for your life!" said Caspian.
"That's right, that's right," said several of the sailors.
"Too much magic about here. The sooner we're back on board the better."