Lucy tried hard to sole him and even screwed up her ce to kiss the scaly face, and nearly everyone said “Hard luck” and veral assured Eustace that they would all stand by him and many said there was sure to be some way of dinting him and they’d have him as right as rain in a day or two. And of cour they were all very anxious to hear his story, but he couldn’t speak. More than on the days that followed he attempted to write it for them on the sand. But, this never succeeded. In the first place Eustaever havihe right books) had no idea how to tell a story straight. And for ahing, the muscles and nerves of the dragon-claws that he had to u had never learo write and were not built for writing anyway. As a result he never got nearly to the end before the tide came in and washed away all the writing except the bits he had already trodden on or actally swished out with his tail. And all that anyone had en would be something like this—the dots are for the bits he had smudged out:
Lucy tried hard to sole him and even screwed up her ce to kiss the scaly face, and nearly everyone said “Hard luck” and veral assured Eustace that they would all stand by him and many said there was sure to be some way of dinting him and they’d have him as right as rain in a day or two. And of cour they were all very anxious to hear his story, but he couldn’t speak. More than on the days that followed he attempted to write it for them on the sand. But, this never succeeded. In the first place Eustaever havihe right books) had no idea how to tell a story straight. And for ahing, the muscles and nerves of the dragon-claws that he had to u had never learo write and were not built for writing anyway. As a result he never got nearly to the end before the tide came in and washed away all the writing except the bits he had already trodden on or actally swished out with his tail. And all that anyone had en would be something like this—the dots are for the bits he had smudged out:
I WO SLEE ... RGOS AGRONS I MEAN DRANGONS CAVE CAUSE IT WAS DEAD AND AINING SO HAR ... WOKE UP AND COU ... GET OFFF MI ARM OH BOTHER...
It was, however, clear to everyohat Eustace’s character had been rather improved by being a dragon. He was anxious to help. He flew over the whole island and found that it was all mountainous and inhabited only by wild goats and droves of wild swine. Of the he brought back many carcass as provisions for the ship. He was a very humane killer too, for he could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn’t knoresumably still doesn’t know) it had been killed. He ate a few himlf, of cour, but always alone, for now that he was a dragon he liked his food raw but he could never bear to let others e him at his messy meals. And one day, flying slowly and wearily but iriumph, he bore bap a great tall piree which he had torn up by the roots in a distant valley and which could be made into a capital mast. And in the evening if it turned chilly, as it sometimes did after the heavy rains, he was a fort to everyone, for the whole party would e and sit with their backs against his hot sides a well warmed and dried; and one puff of his fiery breath would light the most obstinate fire. Sometimes he would take a lect party for a fly on his back, so that they could e wheeling below them the green slopes, the rocky heights, the narrow pit-like valleys and far out over the a to the eastward a spot of darker blue on the blue horizon which might be land.