Then—all at once—whizz, and a sound rather like the stroke of a woodpecker. The children were still w where （ages ago） they had heard a sound just like that and why they disliked it so, when Trumpkin shouted, “Down,” at the same moment f Lucy （who happeo be o him） flat down into the bra. Peter, who had been looking up to e if he could spot a squirrel, had en what it was-a long cruel arrow had sunk into a tree trunk just above his head. As he pulled Susan down and dropped himlf, another came rasping over his shoulder and struck the ground at his side.
“Quick！ Quick！ Get back！ Crawl！” parumpkin.
They turned and wriggled along uphill, uhe bra amid clouds of horribly buzzing flies. Arrows whizzed round them. Oruck Susan’s helmet with a sharp ping and glanced off. They crawled quicker. Soured off them. Then they ran, stooping nearly double. The boys held their swords in their hands for fear they would trip them up.
It was heart—breaking work—all uphill again, back over the ground they had already traveled. When they felt that they really couldn’t run any more, even to save their lives, they all dropped down in the damp moss beside a waterfall and behind a big boulder, panting. They were surprid to e how high they had already got.
They listened ily and heard no sound of pursuit.
“So that’s all right,” said Trumpkin, drawing a deep breath. “They’re not arg the wood. Only ntries, I expect. But it means that Miraz has an outpost down there. Bottles and battledores！ Though, it was a hing.”
“I ought to have my head smacked fing us this way at all,” said Peter.
“On the trary, your Majesty,” said the Dwarf. “For ohing it wasn’t you, it was your royal brother, King Edmund, who first suggested going by Glasswater.”
“I’m afraid the D. L. F.’s right,” said Edmund, who had quite holy fotten this ever sihings began going wrong.
“And for another,” tirumpkin, “if we’d gone my way, we’d have walked straight into that new outpost, most likely； or at least had just the same trouble avoiding it. I think this Glasswater route has turned out for the best.”