“What about some grub?—I mean for you, Sir, we two have had our breakfast,”said the boy.
Tirian wondered very much what he meant by“grub,”but when the boy opened a bulgy satchel which he was carrying and pulled out a rather greasy and squashy packet, he uood.He was ravenously hungry, though he hadn’t thought about it till that moment.There were two hard-boiled egg sandwiches, and two chee sandwiches, and two with some kind of paste in them.If he hadn’t been so hungry he wouldn’t have thought much of the paste, for that is a sort of food nobody eats in Narnia.By the time he had eaten all six sandwiches they had e to the bottom of the valley and there they found a mossy cliff with a little fountain bubbling out of it.All three stopped and drank and splashed their hot faces.
“And now,”said the girl as she tosd her wet hair back from her forehead,“aren’t you going to tell us who you are and why you were tied up and what it’s all about?”
“With a good will, daml,”said Tirian.“But we must keep on the march.”So while they went on walkiold them who he was and all the things that had happeo him.“And now,”he said at the end,“I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day.By Aslan’s good will I was not robbed of my keys.In that tower we shall find stores of ons and mail and some victuals also, though er than dry biscuit.There also we lie safe while we make our plans.And now, prithee, tell me who you two are and all your story.”
“I’m Eustace Scrubb and this is Jill Pole,”said the boy.“And we were here once before, ages and ages ago, more than a year ago by our time, and there was a chap called Prince Rilian, and they were keeping this chap underground, and Puddleglum put his foot in—”
“Ha！”cried Tirian,“are you then that Eustad that Jill who rescued King Rilian from his long entment?”
“Yes, that’s us,”said Jill.“So he’s King Rilian now, is he?Oh of cour he would be.I fot—”
“Nay,”said Tirian,“I am the venth in dest from him.He has been dead over two hundred years.”
Jill made a face.“Ugh！”she said.“That’s the horrid part about ing back to Narnia.”But Eustace went on.
“Well now you knoe are, Sire,”he said.“And it was like this.The Professor and Aunt Polly had got all us friends of Narnia together—”
“I know not the names, Eustace,”said Tirian.
“They’re the two who came into Narnia at the very beginning, the day all the animals learo talk.”