The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"I see," said Shasta to himself. "Those are the big mountains between Archenland and
Narnia. I was on the°. other side of them yesterday. I must have come through the pass in
the night. What luck that I hit it! - at least it wasn't luck at all really, it was Him. And now
I'm in Narnia."
He turned and unsaddled his horse and took off its bridle - "Though you are a perfectly
horrid horse," he said. It took no notice of this remark and immediately began eating
grass. That horse had a very low opinion of Shasta.
"I wish I could eat grass!" thought Shasta. "It's no good going back to Anvard, it'll all be
besieged. I'd better get lower down into the valley and see if I can get anything to eat."
So he went on downhill (the thick dew was cruelly cold to his bare feet) till he came into
a wood. There was a kind of track running through it and he had not followed this for
many minutes when he heard a thick and rather wheezy voice saying to him.
"Good morning, neighbour."
Shasta looked round eagerly to find the speaker and presently saw a small, prickly person
with a dark face who had just come out from among the trees. At least, it was small for a
person but very big indeed for a hedgehog, which was what it was.
"Good morning," said Shasta. "But I'm not a neighbour. In fact I'm a stranger in these
parts."
"Ah?" said the Hedgehog inquiringly.
"I've come over the mountains - from Archenland, you know."
"Ha, Archenland," said the Hedgehog. "That's a terrible long way. Never been there
myself."
"And I think, perhaps," said Shasta, "someone ought to be told that there's an army of
savage Calormenes attacking Anvard at this very moment."
"You don't say so!" answered the Hedgehog. "Well, think of that. And they do say that
Calormen is hundreds and thousands of miles away, right at the world's end, across a
great sea of sand."
"It's not nearly as far as you think," said Shasta. "And oughtn't something to be done
about this attack on Anvard? Oughtn't your High King to be told?"
"Certain sure, something ought to be done about it," said the Hedgehog. "But you see I'm
just on my way to bed for a good day's sleep. Hullo, neighbour!"