“Ah！” roared Aslan. “You have quered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of ynity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me ooable （and it was then, though you have long fotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice）, you shall have your tail again.”
Before Aslan had finished speaking the ail was in its place. Then, at Aslan’s and, Peter bestowed the Knighthood of the Order of the Lion on Caspian, and Caspian, as soon as he was knighted, himlf bestowed it on Trufflehunter and Trumpkin and Reepicheep, and made Doctor elius his Lord cellor, and firmed the Bulgy Bear in his hereditary offiarshal of the Lists. And there was great applau.
After this the Telmarine soldiers, firmly but without taunts or blows, were taken across the ford and all put under lod key iown of Beruna and given beef and beer. They made a great fuss about wading in the river, for they all hated and feared running water just as much as they hated and feared woods and animals. But in the end the nuisance was over, and then the parts of that long day began.
Lucy, sitting clo to Aslan and divinely fortable, wondered what the trees were doing. At first she thought they were merely dang； they were certainly going round slowly in two circles, one from left tht and the other frht to left. Theiced that they kept throwing something down in the ter of both circles. Sometimes she thought they were cutting off long strands of their hair； at other times it looked as if they were breaking off bits of their fingers—but, if so, they had plenty of fio spare and it did not hurt them. But whatever they were throwing down, when it reached the ground, it became brushwood or dry sticks. Then three or four of the Red Dwarfs came forward with their tinder boxes and t light to the pile, which first crackled, and then blazed, and finally roared as a woodland bonfire on midsummer night ought to do. And everyo down in a wide circle round it.