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the horse and his boy_c·s·刘易斯-第章

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but a deafening bray from the donkey and a well…aimed kick at one of the  guards made it clear that these kindly offers were ungratefully received。

and here; to get him out of the way; id better finish off the story of  rsh。 he (or it)

was duly sent back by boat to tashbaan and brought into the temple of tash  at the great autumn festival; and then he became a man again。 but of course four or five  thousand people had seen the transformation and the affair could not possibly be  hushed up。 and after the old tisrocs death when rsh became tisroc in his place he  turned out the most peaceable tisroc calormen had ever known。 this was because; not daring  to go more than ten miles from tashbaan; he could never go on a war himself: and  he didnt want his tarkaans to win fame in the wars at his expense; for that is the  way tisrocs get overthrown。 but though his reasons were selfish; it made things much more  fortable for all the smaller countries round calormen。 his own people never forgot  that he had been a donkey。 during his reign; and to his face; he was called rsh  the peacemaker; but after his death and behind his back he was called rsh the  ridiculous; and if you look him up in a good history of calormen (try the local library) you will  find him under that name。 and to this day in calormene schools; if you do anything  unusually stupid; you are very likely to be called 〃a second rsh〃。

meanwhile at anvard everyone was very glad that he had been disposed of  before the real fun began; which was a grand feast held that evening on the lawn  before the castle; with dozens of lanterns to help the moonlight。 and the wine flowed and  tales were told and jokes were cracked; and then silence was made and the kings poet with  two fiddlers stepped out into the middle of the circle。 aravis and cor prepared  themselves to be bored; for the only poetry they knew was the calormene kind; and you know now what  that was like。 but at the very first scrape of the fiddles a rocket seemed to go up  inside their heads; and the poet sang the great old lay of fair olvin and how he fought the  giant pire and turned him into stone (and that is the origin of mount pire … it was a two …headed giant)

and won the lady liln for his bride; and when it was over they wished it  was going to begin again。 and though bree couldnt sing he told the story of the fight  at zalindreh。

and lucy told again (they had all; except aravis and cor; heard it many  times but they all wanted it again) the tale of the wardrobe and how she and king edmund  and queen susan and peter the high king had first e into narnia。

and presently; as was certain to happen sooner or later; king lune said if  was time for young people to be in bed。 〃and tomorrow; cor;〃 he added; 〃shalt e over  all the castle with me and see the estres and mark all its strength and weakness:  for it will be thine to guard when im gone。鈥

〃but corin will be the king then; father;〃 said cor。

〃nay; lad;〃 said king lune; 〃thou art my heir。 the crown es to thee。鈥

〃but i dont want it;〃 said cor。 〃id far rather…鈥

〃tis no question what thou wantest; cor; nor i either。 tis in the course  of law。鈥

〃but if were twins we must be the same age。鈥

〃nay;〃 said the king with a laugh。 〃one must e first。 art corins elder  by full twenty minutes。 and his better too; lets hope; though thats no great mastery。〃  and he looked at corin with a twinkle in his eyes。

〃but; father; couldnt you make whichever you like to be the next king?鈥

〃no。 the kings under the law; for its the law makes him a king。 hast no  more power to start away from thy crown than any sentry from his post。鈥

〃oh dear;〃 said cor。 〃i dont want to at all。 and corin … i am most  dreadfully sorry。 i never dreamed my turning up was going to chisel you out of your kingdom。鈥

〃hurrah! hurrah!〃 said corin。 〃i shant have to be king。 i shant have to  be king。 ill always be a prince。 its princes have all the fun。鈥

〃and thats truer than thy brother knows; cor;〃 said king lune。 〃for this  is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every  desperate retreat; and when theres hunger in the land (as must be now and then in bad years) to  wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land。鈥

when the two boys were going upstairs to bed cor again asked corin if  nothing could be done about it。 and corin said:  〃if you say another word about it; ill … ill knock you down。鈥

it would be nice to end the story by saying that after that the two  brothers never disagreed about anything again; but i am afraid it would not be true。 in reality they  quarrelled and fought just about as often as any other two boys would; and all their  fights ended (if they didnt begin) with cor getting knocked down。 for though; when they had both  grown up and bee swordsmen; cor was the more dangerous man in battle; neither he  nor anyone else in the north countries could ever equal corin as a boxer。 that  was how he got his name of corin thunder…fist; and how he performed his great exploit  against the lapsed bear of stormness; which was really a talking bear but had gone back  to wild bear habits。 corm climbed up to its lair on the narnian side of stormness  one winter day when the snow was on the hills and boxed it without a time…keeper for  thirty…three rounds。 and at the end it couldnt see out of its eyes and became a  reformed character。

aravis also had many quarrels (and; im afraid; even fights) with cor; but  they always made it up again: so that years later; when they were grown up; they were  so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on  doing it more conveniently。 and after king lunes death they made a good king and queen  of archenland and ram the great; the most famous of all the kings of  archenland; was their son。 bree and hwin lived happily to a great age in narnia and both got  married but not to one another。 and there werent many months in which one or both of them  didnt e trotting over the pass to visit their friends at anvard。

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