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The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

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"It's all right," said Peter. "I know what we're all th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g. But I'm sure, quite sure, we<br />

needn't. I've a feel<strong>in</strong>g we've got to the country where everyth<strong>in</strong>g is allowed."<br />

"Here goes, then!" said Eustace. And they all began to eat.<br />

What was the fruit like? Unfortunately no one can describe a taste. All I can say is that,<br />

compared with those fruits, the freshest grapefruit you've ever eaten was dull, and the<br />

juiciest orange was dry, and the most melt<strong>in</strong>g pear was hard and woody, and the sweetest<br />

wild strawberry was sour. And there were no seeds or stones, and no wasps. If you had<br />

once eaten that fruit, all the nicest th<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> this world would taste like medic<strong>in</strong>es after it.<br />

But I can't describe it. You can't f<strong>in</strong>d out what it is like unless you can get to that country<br />

and taste it for yourself.<br />

When they had eaten enough, Eustace said to K<strong>in</strong>g Peter, "You haven't yet told us how<br />

you got here. You were just go<strong>in</strong>g to, when K<strong>in</strong>g Tirian turned up."<br />

"<strong>The</strong>re's not much to tell," said Peter. "Edmund and I were stand<strong>in</strong>g on the platform and<br />

we saw your tra<strong>in</strong> com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>. I remember th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g it was tak<strong>in</strong>g the bend far too fast. And<br />

I remember th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g how funny it was that our people were probably <strong>in</strong> the same tra<strong>in</strong><br />

though Lucy didn't know about it -"<br />

"Your people, High K<strong>in</strong>g?" said Tirian.<br />

"I mean my Father and Mother - Edmund's and Lucy's and m<strong>in</strong>e."<br />

"Why were they?" asked Jill. "You don't mean to say they know about <strong>Narnia</strong>?"<br />

"Oh no, it had noth<strong>in</strong>g to do with <strong>Narnia</strong>. <strong>The</strong>y were on their way to Bristol. I'd only<br />

heard they were go<strong>in</strong>g that morn<strong>in</strong>g. But Edmund said they'd be bound to be go<strong>in</strong>g by<br />

that tra<strong>in</strong>." (Edmund was the sort <strong>of</strong> person who knows about railways.)<br />

"And what happened then?" said Jill.<br />

"Well, it's not very easy to describe, is it, Edmund?" said the High K<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

"Not very," said Edmund. "It wasn't at all like that other time when we were pulled out <strong>of</strong><br />

our own world by Magic. <strong>The</strong>re was a frightful roar and someth<strong>in</strong>g hit me with a bang,<br />

but it didn't hurt. And I felt not so much scared as - well, excited. Oh - and this is one<br />

queer th<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

I'd had a rather sore knee, from a hack at rugger. I noticed it had suddenly gone. And I<br />

felt very light. And then - here we were."<br />

"It was much the same for us <strong>in</strong> the railway carriage," said the Lord Digory, wip<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

last traces <strong>of</strong> the fruit from his golden beard. "Only I th<strong>in</strong>k you and I, Polly, chiefly felt

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