Caspia sure that he would hate the utor, buy when the utor arrived about a week later he turns out to be the sort of person it is almost impossible not to like. He was the smallest, and also the fattest, man Caspian had ever en. He had a long, silvery, pointed beard which came down to his waist, and his face, which was brown and covered with wrinkles, looked very wi, very ugly, and very kind. His voice was grave and his eyes were merry so that, until you got to know him really well, it was hard to know when he was joking and when he was rious. His name was Doctor elius.
Of all his lessons with Doctor elius the ohat Caspian liked best was History. Up till now, except for Nur’s stories, he had known nothing about the History of Narnia, and he was very surprid to learn that the royal family were newers in the try.
“It was yhness’s aor, Caspian the First,” said Doctor elius, “who first quered Narnia and made it his kingdom. It was he whht all your nation into the try. You are not native Narnians at all. You are all Telmarihat is, you all came from the Land of Telmar, far beyond the Western Mountains. That is why Caspian the First is called Caspian the queror.”
“Plea, Doctor,” asked Caspian one day, “who lived in Narnia before we all came here out of Telmar?”
“No men—or very few—lived in Narnia before the Telmariook it,” said Doctor elius.
“Then who did my great-great-graers quer?”
“Whom, not who, yhness,” said Doctor elius. “Perhaps it is time to turn from History to Grammar.”
“Oh plea, not yet,” said Caspian. “I mean, wasn’t there a battle? Why is he called Caspian the queror if there was nobody to fight with him?”
“I said there were very few men in Narnia,” said the Doctor, looking at the little boy very strahrough his great spectacles.
For a moment Caspian uzzled and then suddenly his heart gave a leap. “Do you mean,” he gasped, “that there were other things? Do you mean it was like iories? Were there—?”
“Hush！” said Doctor elius, laying his head very clo to Caspian’s. “Not a word more. Don’t you know your Nur was nt away for telling you about Old Narnia? The King doesn’t like it. If he fouelling you crets, you’d be whipped and I should have my head cut off.”