“Wherever is this?”said Peter’s voice, sounding tired and pale in the darkness.
“It’s an old hiding-place for beavers in bad times,”said Mr.Beaver.“and a great cret.It’s not much of a place but we must get a few hours’sleep.”
“If you hadn’t all been in such a plaguey fuss when we were starting, I’d have brought some pillows,”said Mrs.Beaver.
It wasn’t nearly such a nice cave as Mr.Tumnus’s, Lucy thought—just a hole in the ground but dry ahy.It was very small so that when they all lay down they were all a bundle of clothes together, and what with that and being warmed up by their long walk they were really rather snug.If only the floor of the cave had been a little smoother！Then Mrs.Beaver handed round in the dark a little flask out of which everyone drank something—it made one cough and splutter a little and stung the throat, but it also made you feel deliciously warm after you’d swallowed it—and everyo straight to sleep.
It emed to Luly the mihough really it was hours and hours later）when she woke up feeling a little cold and dreadfully stiff and thinking how she would like a hot bath.Then she felt a t of long whiskers tig her cheek and saw the cold daylight ing in through the mouth of the cave.But immediately after that she was very wide awake indeed, and so was everyone el.In fact they were all sitting up with their mouths and eyes wide open listening to a sound which was the very sound they’d all been thinking of（and sometimes imagining they heard）during their walk last night.It was a sound of jingling bells.
Mr.Beaver was out of the cave like a flash the moment he heard it.Perhaps you think, as Lucy thought for a moment, that this was a very silly thing to do?But it was really a very nsible one.He knew he could scramble to the top of the bank among bushes and brambles without being en; and he wanted above all things to e which way the Witch’s sledge went.The others all sat in the cave waiting and w.They waited nearly five mihen they heard something that frightehem very much.They heard voices.“Oh,”thought Lucy.“he’s been en.She’s caught him！”