“You may be glad enough of it before you taste bread again,”said the Witch.
While he was still chewing away the first dwarf came bad annouhat the sledge was ready.The White Witch ro a out, Edmund to go with her.The snow was again falling as they came into the courtyard, but she took no notice of that and made Edmund sit beside her on the sledge.But before they drove off she called Maugrim and he came bounding like an enormous dog to the side of the sledge.
“Take with you the swiftest of your wolves and go at oo the hou of the Beavers,”said the Witch.“and kill whatever you find there.If they are already gohen make all speed to the Stoable, but do not be en.Wait for me there in hiding.I meanwhile must go many miles to the West before I find a place where I drive across the river.You may overtake the humans before they reach the Stoable.You will know what to do if you find them！”
“I hear and obey, O Queen,”growled the Wolf, and immediately he shot away into the snow and darkness, as quickly as a hor gallop.In a few minutes he had called another wolf and was with him down on the dam sniffing at the Beavers’hou.But of cour they found it empty.It would have been a dreadful thing for the Beavers and the children if the night had remained fine, for the wolves would then have been able to follow their trail-ao one would have overtaken them before they had got to the cave.But now that the snow had begun again the st was cold and even the footprints were covered up.
“You may be glad enough of it before you taste bread again,”said the Witch.
While he was still chewing away the first dwarf came bad annouhat the sledge was ready.The White Witch ro a out, Edmund to go with her.The snow was again falling as they came into the courtyard, but she took no notice of that and made Edmund sit beside her on the sledge.But before they drove off she called Maugrim and he came bounding like an enormous dog to the side of the sledge.
“Take with you the swiftest of your wolves and go at oo the hou of the Beavers,”said the Witch.“and kill whatever you find there.If they are already gohen make all speed to the Stoable, but do not be en.Wait for me there in hiding.I meanwhile must go many miles to the West before I find a place where I drive across the river.You may overtake the humans before they reach the Stoable.You will know what to do if you find them！”