“Dead?” said Caspian.
“I think not, Sire,” said Reepicheep, lifting one of their hands out of its tangle of hair in his two paws. “This one is warm and his pul beats.”
“This ooo, and this,” said Drinian.
“Why, they’re only asleep,” said Eustace.
“It’s been a long sleep, though,” said Edmund, “to let their hair grow like this.”
“It must be an ented sleep,” said Lucy. “I felt the moment we landed on this island that it was full of magic. Oh！ Do you think erhaps e here to break it?”
“We try,” said Caspian, and began shaking the of the three sleepers. For a moment everyohought he was going to be successful, for the mahed hard and muttered, “I’ll go eastward no more. Out oars for Narnia.” But he sank back almost at oo a yet deeper sleep than before： that is, his heavy head sagged a few inches lower toward the table and all efforts to rou him again were uless. With the d it was much the same. “Weren’t born to live like animals. Get to the east while you’ve a ce—lands behind the sun,” and sank down. And the third only said, “Mustard, plea,” and slept hard.
“Out oars for Narnia, eh?” said Drinian.
“Yes,” said Caspian, “you are right, Drinian. I think our quest is at an end. Let’s look at their rings. Yes, the are their devices. This is the Lord Revilian. This is the Lord Argoz： and this, the Lord Mavramorn.”
“But we ’t wake them,” said Lucy. “What are we to do?”
“Begging your Majesties’pardons all,” said Rhince, “but why not fall to while you’re discussing it? We don’t e a dinner like this every day.”
“Not for your life！” said Caspian.
“That’s right, that’s right,” said veral of the sailors. “Too much magic about here. The sooner we’re ba board the better.”
“Depend upon it,” said Reepicheep, “it was from eating this food that the three lords came by a ven years’sleep.”
“I wouldn’t touch it to save my life,” said Drinian.
“The light’s going unon quick,” said Rynelf.
“Back to ship, back to ship,” muttered the men.
“I really think,” said Edmund, “they’re right. We decide what to do with the three sleepers tomorrow. We darehe food and there’s no point in staying here for the night. The whole place smells of magid danger.”