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    quot;AND no; said Lucy, quot;do please tell us umnus.”

    quot;As bad,quot; said Mr Beaver, s;ts a very, very  bad business.

    t aken off by t t from a bird w done.”

    quot;But o?quot; asked Lucy.

    quot;ell, t seen and  means.”

    quot;No, ,quot; said Susan. Mr Beaver shook his head in a very gloomy  fashion.

    quot;Im afraid it means taking o ; he said.

    quot;But o ; gasped Lucy.

    quot;ell,quot; said Mr Beaver, quot;you cant exactly say for sure. But t  many taken in t ever comes out again. Statues. All full of statues t  is - in tyard and up tairs and in turnedquot; - (;turned into stone.”

    quot;But, Mr Beaver,quot; said Lucy, quot;cant  do someto  save s too dreadful and its all on my account.”

    quot;I dont doubt youd save ; said Mrs Beaver, quot;but  youve no cting into t

    alive.”

    quot;Couldnt agem?quot; said Peter. quot;I mean couldnt end to be - ocill s - or- o all, t be some er at  just leave o be - to be - to  done to him.”

    quot;Its no good, Son of Adam,quot; said Mr Beaver, quot;no good your trying, of all  people. But no Aslan is on the move-”

    quot;Oell us about Aslan!quot; said several voices at once; for once again  t strange feeling - like t signs of spring, like good news, hem.

    quot;; asked Susan.

    quot;Aslan?quot; said Mr Beaver. quot; you kno often and. Never in my time or my  fatime.

    But t  t. tle te Queen all rig is  you, t umnus.”