ster!”

    Every moment tcches of spow grew  smaller.

    Every moment more and more of trees sead of urned from o gold and presently cleared aogets of delicious sunligruck doo t floor and overree tops.

    Soon to a glade of silver bircrees Edmund saions tle yelloer grely tually crossed a stream. Beyond it they found snowdrops growing.

    quot;Mind your o; said t Edmund urned  o look at the rope a vicious jerk.

    But of course t prevent Edmund from seeing. Only five minutes  later iced a dozen crocuses gro of an old tree - gold and purple  and er. Close beside  tree. It tle furt tering and cion, and t of full  song, and es turned ing on branctle quarrels or tidying up their beaks.

    quot;Faster! Faster!quot; said tch.

    trace of te clouds  from time to time. In t breeze sprang up ure from  ts against travellers. trees began to come fully alive. trees  forte,  transparent leaves.

    As travellers  also became green. A bee  buzzed across th.

    quot;t; said topping. quot;t  are o do?

    Your er royed, I tell you! this is Aslans doing.”

    quot;If eition t name again,quot; said tc;antly be killed.”