The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2

"GOOD EVENING," said Lucy. But the faun was so busy picking up its parcels that at first it did not reply. When it had finished it made her a little bow.

"Good evening, good evening," said the Faun. "Excuse me - I don't want to be inquisitive - but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?"

"My name's Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.

"But you are - forgive me - you are what they call a girl?" said the Faun.

"Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy.

"You are in fact Human?"

"Of course I'm human," said Lucy, still a little puzzled.

"To be sure, to be sure," said the Faun. "How stupid of me! But I've never seen a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve before. I am delighted. That is to say -" and then it stopped as if it had been going to say something it had not intended but had remembered in time. "Delighted, delighted," it went on. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus."

"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy.

"And may I ask, O Lucy Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "how you have come into Narnia?"

"Narnia? What's that?" said Lucy.

"This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea. And you - you have come from the wild woods of the west?"

"I - I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy.

"Ah!" said Mr Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice, "if only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little Faun, I should no doubt know all about those strange countries. It is too late now."

"But they aren't countries at all," said Lucy, almost laughing. "It's only just back there - at least - I'm not sure. It is summer there."

"Meanwhile," said Mr Tumnus, "it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"

	word	meaning		word	meaning	
1	busy		9	intended		
2	reply		10	introduce		
3	bow		11	meet		
4	inquisitive		12	wild		
5	quite		13	spare		
6	forgive		14	melancholy		
7	puzzled		15	eternal		
8	delighted		16	reigns		

	Question	answer	
1	What was the faun busy doing?		
2	What did it do when it had finished?		
3	What did the faun say at first?		
4	Was the faun pleased to meet Lucy?		
5	What was the name of the faun?		
6	Where did the faun live?		
7	Where had Lucy come from?		
8	Where was the wardrobe?		
9	What is the name of the great castle?		
10	Where is the castle?		
11	Where are the wild woods?		
12	What is on the eastern sea?		
13	What season was it in Narnia?		
14	What season was it in England?		
15	How long had it been winter in Narnia?		

	Lion 2.1	yes	no	
1	The faun was busy picking up its umbrella			
2	The faun was busy dropping its parcels			
3	The faun was busy picking up its parcels			
4	Mr Tumnus was happy to meet Lucy			
5	He was unhappy to meet Lucy			
6	Narnia lies between the lamp-post and the eastern sea			
7	Narnia lies between the eastern sea and the lamp-post			
8	Cair Paravel is in the wild woods of the west			
9	Cair Paravel is on the eastern sea			
10	It was summer in England			
11	It was winter in Australia			
12	It was summer in Narnia			
13	It was winter in England			
14	It was winter in Narnia			
15	Mr Tumnus invited Lucy to his home for a cup of coffee			

I D B G D E O T I N T H R R O
U Q E U Y E V G H T T H E E W
A R U D S L T I D R E O B P E
Y A Q I N Y O H G E E D M L G
P J S G T E P H G R M U L Y T
Q L A N R E T E C I O E W I F
E C U D O R T N I N L F H L W
R E I G N S Q F I Q A E N F J
I N Q U I S I T I V E L D S B
V D B V K V L G P F K R E H C
E O L J E B T Z C K R U A M G
W K P J N O D W E P H X Q P M
D D U X R M J P U Z Z L E D S
X U Y R U R V R G K T Y R H H
Y C S L G E B A C F H P Z Z V

BOW  BUSY  DELIGHTED  ETERNAL  FORGIVE  INQUISITIVE  INTENDED  INTRODUCE
MEET  MELANCHOLY  PUZZLED  QUITE  REIGNS  REPLY  SPARE  WILD

__   __ __ __   __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

It is winter in Narnia

How stupid of me

When it had finished

"Thank you very much, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But I was wondering whether I ought to be getting back."

"It's only just round the corner," said the Faun, "and there'll be a roaring fire - and toast - and sardines - and cake."

"Well, it's very kind of you," said Lucy. "But I shan't be able to stay long."

"If you will take my arm, Daughter of Eve," said Mr Tumnus, "I shall be able to hold the umbrella over both of us. That's the way. Now - off we go."

And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood arm in arm with this strange creature as if they had known one another all their lives.

They had not gone far before they came to a place where the ground became rough and there were rocks all about and little hills up and little hills down. 

At the bottom of one small valley Mr Tumnus turned suddenly aside as if he were going to walk straight into an unusually large rock, but at the last moment Lucy found he was leading her into the entrance of a cave. 

As soon as they were inside she found herself blinking in the light of a wood fire. Then Mr Tumnus stooped and took a flaming piece of wood out of the fire with a neat little pair of tongs, and lit a lamp. 

"Now we shan't be long," he said, and immediately put a kettle on.

Lucy thought she had never been in a nicer place. It was a little, dry, clean cave of reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs ("one for me and one for a friend," said Mr Tumnus) and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire and above that a picture of an old Faun with a grey beard. 

In one corner there was a door which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full of books. 

Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things. They had titles like The Life and Letters of Silenus or Nymphs and Their Ways or Men, Monks and Gamekeepers; a Study in Popular Legend or Is Man a Myth?

"Now, Daughter of Eve!" said the Faun.

And really it was a wonderful tea. There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and then a sugar-topped cake. 

And when Lucy was tired of eating the Faun began to talk. He had wonderful tales to tell of life in the forest. 

He told about the midnight dances and how the Nymphs who lived in the wells and the Dryads who lived in the trees came out to dance with the Fauns; about long hunting parties after the milk-white stag who could give you wishes if you caught him; about feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild Red Dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor.

	word	meaning		word	meaning	
1	wondering		12	neat		
2	ought		13	tongs		
3	toast		14	kettle		
4	sardines		15	dresser		
5	creature		16	mantelpiece		
6	rough		17	shelf		
7	valley		18	gamekeepers		
8	aside		19	boiled		
9	entrance		20	tales		
10	stooped		21	stag		
11	flaming		22	caverns		

	Question	answer	
1	Where was the house of Mr Tumnus?		
2	What did they have for tea?		
3	What was the ground like?		
4	Where did Mr Tumnus turn aside?		
5	Where did he lead Lucy?		
6	Who lit the lamp?		
7	What was on the floor?		
8	How many chairs were there?		
9	What was in the corner?		
10	Where was the shelf of books?		
11	Who lived in the wells?		
12	Who lived in the trees?		
13	What happened if you caught the stag?		
14	Who lived in deep mines and caverns?		
15	Where did the Red Dwarfs live?		

	Lion 2.2	yes	no	
1	Mr Tumnus took Lucy to the zoo			
2	He took her to his home			
3	He took her to the castle			
4	Lucy found herself blinking in the light of the lantern			
5	Lucy found herself blinking in the light of a wood fire			
6	Lucy put a kettle on			
7	Mr Tumnus put on an electric jug			
8	Lucy put on an electric jug			
9	Mr Tumnus put on a kettle			
10	The cave was of purple glass			
11	It was of reddish stone			
12	There was a mantelpiece over the door			
13	There was a mantelpiece over the fire			
14	They ate roast chicken and salad			
15	They ate eggs, sardines, toast, honey and cake			

E S T R H E R E W A S G E A N
V C R I E C D E B R O A N T W
N A E E E S G E G Y D T T O N
E G L I P N S L L N W S R A T
D M N L P E S E N I D R A S H
I A V I E L E C R T O Y N T G
S I O I R Y E K A D O B C A U
A T A E N E K T E V C N E L O
S T O O P E D F N M E T G E L
I X D B H F L N H A A R R S S
X L J G L A M J O B M G N D S
G U U E M B B F B W V C C S S
B O H I C Q Y G A J I T X X H
R S N H F C R E A T U R E K T
G G K E T T L E R G Y X H X Q

ASIDE  BOILED  CAVERNS  CREATURE  DRESSER  ENTRANCE  FLAMING  GAMEKEEPERS  KETTLE  MANTELPIECE  NEAT  OUGHT  ROUGH  SARDINES
SHELF  STAG  STOOPED  TALES  TOAST  TONGS  VALLEY  WONDERING

__ __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __   __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ 

And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood

Mr Tumnus turned suddenly aside

And then about summer when the woods were green and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them, and sometimes Bacchus himself, and then the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. 

"Not that it isn't always winter now," he added gloomily. Then to cheer himself up he took out from its case on the dresser a strange little flute that looked as if it were made of straw and began to play. 

And the tune he played made Lucy want to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep all at the same time. It must have been hours later when she shook herself and said:

"Oh, Mr Tumnus - I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune - but really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes."

"It's no good now, you know," said the Faun, laying down its flute and shaking its head at her very sorrowfully.

"No good?" said Lucy, jumping up and feeling rather frightened. "What do you mean? I've got to go home at once. The others will be wondering what has happened to me." 

But a moment later she asked, "Mr Tumnus! Whatever is the matter?" for the Faun's brown eyes had filled with tears and then the tears began trickling down its cheeks, and soon they were running off the end of its nose; and at last it covered its face with its hands and began to howl.

"Mr Tumnus! Mr Tumnus!" said Lucy in great distress. "Don't! Don't! What is the matter? Aren't you well? Dear Mr Tumnus, do tell me what is wrong." 

But the Faun continued sobbing as if its heart would break. And even when Lucy went over and put her arms round him and lent him her handkerchief, he did not stop. 

He merely took the handkerchief and kept on using it, wringing it out with both hands whenever it got too wet to be any more use, so that presently Lucy was standing in a damp patch.

"Mr Tumnus!" bawled Lucy in his ear, shaking him. "Do stop. Stop it at once! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great big Faun like you. What on earth are you crying about?"

"Oh - oh - oh!" sobbed Mr Tumnus, "I'm crying because I'm such a bad Faun."

"I don't think you're a bad Faun at all," said Lucy. "I think you are a very good Faun. You are the nicest Faun I've ever met."

"Oh - oh - you wouldn't say that if you knew," replied Mr Tumnus between his sobs. "No, I'm a bad Faun. I don't suppose there ever was a worse Faun since the beginning of the world."

"But what have you done?" asked Lucy.

"My old father, now," said Mr Tumnus; "that's his picture over the mantelpiece. He would never have done a thing like this."

"A thing like what?" said Lucy.

"Like what I've done," said the Faun. "Taken service under the White Witch. That's what I am. I'm in the pay of the White Witch."

	word	meaning		word	meaning	
1	jollification		8	howl		
2	gloomily		9	distress		
3	flute		10	wringing		
4	shook		11	damp		
5	sorrowfully		12	patch		
6	matter		13	bawled		
7	trickling		14	service		

	Question	answer	
1	Who visited them on his fat donkey?		
2	When did he visit?		
3	What was in the streams?		
4	What did Mr Tumnus take from its case?		
5	Where was the dresser?		
6	What did Mr Tumnus do with the flute?		
7	What did Lucy want to do?		
8	What was the matter with Mr Tumnus?		
9	What trickled down his cheeks?		
10	What did Lucy lend him?		
11	Why was Mr Tumnus crying?		
12	Whose picture was over the mantelpiece?		
13	What had Mr Tumnus done?		
14	Whose service had he taken?		
15	What colour was the witch?		

	Lion 2.3	yes	no	
1	About summer the woods were pink 			
2	About summer the woods were green			
3	Santa Claus would visit them on his fat donkey			
4	Santa Claus would visit them in his sports car			
5	Old Silenus would visit them in his sports car			
6	Old Silenus would visit them on his fat donkey			
7	Mr Tumnus took out a flute from its case on the refrigerator			
8	Mr Tumnus took out a piano from its case on the dresser			
9	Mr Tumnus took out a flute from its case on the dresser			
10	Lucy wanted to cry and laugh and eat lunch			
11	Lucy wanted to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep			
12	Lucy wanted to cry and eat and dance and go to sleep			
13	Lucy's brown eyes had filled with tears			
14	Mr Tumnus's eyes had filled with tears			
15	The donkey's eyes had filled with tears			

J B G U T M T D H E G S F A U
N O C L A O I N T I N O N U E
D S L T O S O B B I I R N G J
C D T L T O V M N G G R U J W
O E A R I X M D L I N O F L X
R Z E M Q F L I G L I W B M X
E S S Z P I I N L K R F K C H
S F L U T E I C S Y W U O E O
G N I B P L X W A A D L O C W
Y M G A K H H H S T R L H I L
V R T C D E L W A B I Y S V W
S C I S E W E W F L U O O R C
H R H U E N I A Q Y X A N E O
T O H P Z G L J F E B V C S Y
V O E V V R P Q O K U A S G S

BAWLED  DAMP  DISTRESS  FLUTE  GLOOMILY  HOWL  JOLLIFICATION
MATTER  PATCH  SERVICE  SHOOK  SORROWFULLY  TRICKLING  WRINGING

__ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

Old Silenus on his fat donkey

The tune he played

The tears began trickling

"The White Witch? Who is she?"

"Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It's she that makes it always winter. Always winter and never Christmas; think of that!"

"How awful!" said Lucy. "But what does she pay you for?"

"That's the worst of it," said Mr Tumnus with a deep groan. "I'm a kidnapper for her, that's what I am. Look at me, Daughter of Eve. 

"Would you believe that I'm the sort of Faun to meet a poor innocent child in the wood, one that had never done me any harm, and pretend to be friendly with it, and invite it home to my cave, all for the sake of lulling it asleep and then handing it over to the White Witch?"

"No," said Lucy. "I'm sure you wouldn't do anything of the sort."

"But I have," said the Faun.

"Well," said Lucy rather slowly (for she wanted to be truthful and yet not be too hard on him), "well, that was pretty bad. But you're so sorry for it that I'm sure you will never do it again."

"Daughter of Eve, don't you understand?" said the Faun. "It isn't something I have done. I'm doing it now, this very moment."

"What do you mean?" cried Lucy, turning very white.

"You are the child," said Tumnus. "I had orders from the White Witch that if ever I saw a Son of Adam or a Daughter of Eve in the wood, I was to catch them and hand them over to her. And you are the first I've ever met. 

"And I've pretended to be your friend an asked you to tea, and all the time I've been meaning to wait till you were asleep and then go and tell Her."

"Oh, but you won't, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "You won't, will you? Indeed, indeed you really mustn't."

"And if I don't," said he, beginning to cry again "she's sure to find out. And she'll have my tail cut off and my horns sawn off, and my beard plucked out, and she'll wave her wand over my beautiful cloven hoofs and turn them into horrid solid hoofs like a wretched horse's. 

"And if she is extra and specially angry she'll turn me into stone and I shall be only statue of a Faun in her horrible house until the four thrones at Cair Paravel are filled and goodness knows when that will happen, or whether it will ever happen at all."

"I'm very sorry, Mr Tumnus," said Lucy. "But please let me go home."

"Of course I will," said the Faun. "Of course I've got to. I see that now. I hadn't known what Humans were like before I met you. Of course I can't give you up to the Witch; not now that I know you. 

"But we must be off at once. I'll see you back to the lamp-post. I suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?"

"I'm sure I can," said Lucy.

	word	meaning		word	meaning	
1	thumb		10	moment		
2	kidnapper		11	sawn		
3	innocent		12	plucked		
4	harm		13	cloven		
5	pretend		14	horrid		
6	invite		15	stone		
7	sake		16	statue		
8	lulling		17	horrible		
9	truthful		18	thrones		

	Question	answer	
1	What is the season in Narnia?		
2	What was Mr Tumnus going to do?		
3	What did the witch want?		
4	Who was to catch boys and girls?		
5	How many girls had Mr Tumnus met?		
6	Why did he pretend to be Lucy's friend?		
7	What would happen to his tail?		
8	What would happen to his beard?		
9	What would happen to his hoofs?		
10	What would happen to Mr Tumnus?		
11	Where would the statue be located?		
12	Was Mr Tumnus friendly or unfriendly?		
13	Did he give Lucy up to the witch?		
14	Where did he take her?		
15	Where did she want to go?		

	Lion 2.4	yes	no	
1	In Narnia it is always summer			
2	In Narnia it is never winter			
3	In Narnia it is never summer			
4	In Narnia it is always winter			
5	Mr Tumnus had orders to hand over to the witch any daughter of Eve			
6	Mr Tumnus had orders to hand over to the witch any hippopotamus			
7	Mr Tumnus had orders to hand over to the witch any son of Adam			
8	Mr Tumnus had orders to hand over to the witch any son of Eve			
9	Mr Tumnus began to cry			
10	Lucy began to cry			
11	The White Witch was going to turn him into jelly			
12	The White Witch was going to turn him into stone			
13	The White Witch was going to turn him into ice cream			
14	Lucy wanted to go home			
15	She wanted to go to Cair Paravel			

K M A L W N D L L M A Y S W I
I R N T W E U E U O R A N D D
D A N A K L E E F M V E R I C
N H S C L H L R H E I S R T D
A M U I A B S C T N U R O N T
P L N T I L V H U T O T E C N
P G N R I R I S R H W T A E G
E N R P C C P N T P E S V T Q
R O E T I V N I N R T O E B S
H S E N O R H T P O L K H M L
E K A S F A M A N C C J H U R
O L F Z S F P E C B I E V H S
K D G B U Y I T E J J X N T F
E L I D E O F D I W A U L T N
J Y P M N P G P Y H N B B N J

CLOVEN  HARM  HORRIBLE  HORRID  INNOCENT  INVITE  KIDNAPPER  LULLING
MOMENT  PLUCKED  PRETEND  SAKE  SAWN  STATUE  STONE  THRONES  THUMB
TRUTHFUL

__ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

One that had never

I was to catch them

She'll wave her wand

"We must go as quietly as we can," said Mr Tumnus. "The whole wood is full of her spies. Even some of the trees are on her side."

They both got up and left the tea things on the table, and Mr Tumnus once more put up his umbrella and gave Lucy his arm, and they went out into the snow. 

The journey back was not at all like the journey to the Faun's cave; they stole along as quickly as they could, without speaking a word, and Mr Tumnus kept to the darkest places. Lucy was relieved when they reached the lamp-post again.

"Do you know your way from here, Daughter of Eve?" said Tumnus.

Lucy looked very hard between the trees and could just see in the distance a patch of light that looked like daylight. "Yes," she said, "I can see the wardrobe door."

"Then be off home as quick as you can," said the Faun, "and - c-can you ever forgive me for what meant to do?"

"Why, of course I can," said Lucy, shaking him heartily by the hand. "And I do hope you won't get into dreadful trouble on my account."

"Farewell, Daughter of Eve," said he. "Perhaps I may keep the handkerchief?"

"Rather!" said Lucy, and then ran towards the far off patch of daylight as quickly as her legs would carry her. 

And presently instead of rough branch brushing past her she felt coats, and instead of crunching snow under her feet she felt wooden board and all at once she found herself jumping out of the wardrobe into the same empty room from which the whole adventure had started. 

She shut the wardrobe door tightly behind her and looked around, panting for breath. It was still raining and she could hear the voices of the others in the passage.

"I'm here," she shouted. "I'm here. I've come back I'm all right."

	word	meaning		word	meaning	
1	spies		10	trouble		
2	journey		11	account		
3	stole		12	keep		
4	relieved		13	patch		
5	cave		14	presently		
6	forgive		15	brushing		
7	meant		16	empty		
8	heartily		17	adventure		
9	dreadful		18	panting		

	Question	answer	
1	What is the whole wood full of?		
2	Where did they leave the tea things?		
3	Where did they go?		
4	How did they travel along?		
5	What did they say as they travelled?		
6	Where did Mr Tumnus keep to?		
7	When was Lucy relieved?		
8	What could Lucy see?		
9	What did the patch of light look like?		
10	What did Mr Tumnus ask for?		
11	What did Lucy give to the faun?		
12	What did she feel in the wardrobe?		
13	What was under her feet?		
14	Where did she jump?		
15	What could she hear?		

	Lion 2.5	yes	no	
1	The whole wood was full of chocolate			
2	The whole wood was full of the witch's spies			
3	They put away the tea things			
4	They ate the tea things			
5	They left the tea things on the chair			
6	They left the tea things on the table			
7	They strolled along in the brightest places			
8	They stole along quickly in the darkest places			
9	Lucy was angry to see the lamp-post again			
10	Lucy was relieved to see the lamp-post again			
11	Lucy looked very hard and could see a patch of light			
12	Lucy looked very hard and could see a unicorn			
13	Lucy felt coats brushing past her in the wardrobe			
14	Lucy felt horses brushing past her in the wardrobe			
15	Lucy felt spiders brushing past her in the wardrobe			

Y S M E A N T H E S P H U T T
H L E W A R D R O B E A D O O
R T I I G H T L Y H B V T E S
Z F T T R E L I E V E D R C C
X W D X R G O Q J Q E U T M H
D A L R V A B P Y O T A L Q E
Y L T N E S E R P N U B K V Z
A R R S V A N H E A R R I A E
C W O C P P D V J U N G N M A
C K U A P I D F S V R T P E V
O E B V W A E H U O Y T I U Y
U L L E W K I S F L Y Z H N D
N O E B Z N E P K A H N E G G
T T G Y G L A E D Q L E S J K
D S M C X N X Q P I O C E L F

ACCOUNT  ADVENTURE  BRUSHING  CAVE  DREADFUL  EMPTY  FORGIVE  HEARTILY
JOURNEY  KEEP  MEANT  PANTING  PATCH  PRESENTLY  RELIEVED  SPIES  STOLE
TROUBLE 

__ __ __   __ __ __ __   __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __   

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ 

Mr Tumnus once more

Lucy was relieved

Lucy looked very hard