CHAPTER ONE
tURE IN tace Clarence Scrubb, and deserved it. s called ace Clarence and masters called tell you o call ;Father”
and quot;Mot;, but a. to-date and advanced people.
tarians, non-smokers and teetotallers and tle furniture and very fehe windows were always open.
Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if tion and ures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
Eustace Clarence disliked er, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. But e glad o stay.
For deep dole person o Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a fig to give people a bad time if you are in your own ors.
Edmund and Lucy did not at all to come and stay Alberta. But it really couldnt be a job lecturing in America for sixteen summer, and Moto go en years. Peter ures long ago in till been in t o stay. But tage o spare. It oo muco take to America, and Susan had gone.
Gro ty one of t sc; far more out of a trip to America tersquot;. Edmund and Lucy tried not to grudge Susan it ts. quot;But its far ; said Edmund, quot;because youll at least o s record stinker, Eustace.”
tory begins on an afternoon es alone togetalking about Narnia, country. Most of us, I suppose, country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy respect. t country ed it t in a game or a dream but in reality. t tting to Narnia. And a promise, or very nearly a promise, self t t back. You may imagine t talked about it a good de