“Then I looked about me and saw the sky and the wide lands, and smelled the sweetness.And I said, By the Gods, this is a pleasant place, it may be that I am e into the try of Tash.And I began to journey into the strange try and to ek him.
“So I went over much grass and many flowers and among all kinds of wholesome aable trees till lo！in a narrow place between two rocks there came to meet me a great Lion.The speed of him was like the ostrich, and his size was an elephant’s; his hair was like pure gold and the brightness of his eyes like gold that is liquid in the furnace.He was more terrible than the Flaming Mountain of Lagour, and iy he surpasd all that is in the world even as the ro in bloom surpass the dust of the dert.Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion（who is worthy of all honour）will know that I have rved Tash all my days and not him.heless, it is better to e the Lion and die than to be Tisroc of the world and live and not to have en him.But the Glorious O down his golden head and touched my forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art wele.But I said, Alas, Lord, I am no son of thi the rvant of Tash.He answered, Child, all the rvice thou hast doo Tash, I at as rvice doo me.Then by reasons of my great desire for wisdom and uanding, I overcame my fear and questiohe Glorious One and said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash are ohe Lion growled so that the earth shook（but his wrath was not against me）and said, It is fal.Not becau he and I are one, but becau we are opposites, I take to me the rvices which thou hast doo him.For I and he are of such different kinds that no rvice which is vile be doo me, and none which is not vile be doo him.Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward him.And if any man do a cruelty in my hen, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he rves and by Tash his deed is accepted.Dost thou uand, Child?I said, Lord, thou k how much I uand.But I said also（for the truth strained me）, Yet I have been eking Tash all my days.Beloved, said the Glorious One, uhy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly.For all find what they truly ek.