Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven

Lucy followed the Lion King out, walked into the corridor, and suddenly saw an old man with bare feet and wearing a red robe.In his white hair he wore a wreath of oak leaves, and his beard hung down to his girdle, and he carried a wonderfully carved walking stick.When he saw Aslan he bowed deeply and said: Your Excellency is welcome. " "Koryagin, are you tired of taking care of such a bunch of stupid things I put in your hands?" "No," said the magician, "they're stupid, but they're not really evil. I've grown to like these monsters. I've been waiting for the day when I can rely on my wits instead of this rough magic." , to govern them, sometimes, perhaps a little impatient to wait."

"It will be all right then, Koryagin," said Aslan. "Yes, in due course, sir," he replied, "are you going to show yourself to them?" "No," said the Lion, growling a little, and Lucy thought it meant something like a laugh, "I'll scare them out. Just when many stars are old and retired on the island, you My men haven't grown up to that yet. I must go and see Trumpkin the Dwarf before sunset today, as he sits in Cair Paravel's castle and counts the arrival of his master Caspian. What about the day. I'll tell him all about you. Don't look so sad, Lucy. We'll see each other soon."

"Excuse me, Aslan," said Lucy, "how long are you talking about?" "It could be anytime soon," said Aslan, and in a moment he was gone, and Lucy was alone with the magician. "Go!" he said. "You and I are very disappointed. It always is, and you can't keep him; he's not like a tame lion. How about my book?" "Some places in the book are really interesting," said Lucy. "Did you always know I was there?" "Well, of course I do. I knew when I made these idiots invisible that you'd be breaking the spell soon. I just couldn't tell. I wasn't on my guard this morning. You see, the spell threw me off. Became invisible too, and it keeps me drowsy when I'm invisible. Hi-ho-look I'm yawning again. Are you hungry?"

"Perhaps I'm a little hungry, after all," said Lucy, "I don't know what time it is." "Come on," said the magician, "for Aslan any time is short; but in my house it is one o'clock whenever I am hungry." He took her a short walk down the corridor and opened a door.After entering the door, Lucy saw herself in a room full of sunlight and flowers.The table was empty, but of course it was a magic table, and the old magician said a spell, and the tablecloth, silverware, plates, glasses, and food appeared. I hope that's what you like to eat," he said, "I've tried to get you food that's more native to your country than you might have eaten recently. "

"It's lovely," said Lucy, isn't it: a piping hot omelet, cold lamb, green peas, a strawberry ice cream, lemonade as a side drink, followed by a glass of chocolate.But the magician himself only drank wine and ate only bread.There was nothing intimidating about him, and Lucy soon chatted with him like old friends. "When does the spell work?" asked Lucy. "Did the fools show themselves right away?" "Yes, they're showing up now. But they're probably still asleep; they always take a rest at noon." "Now that they're all in shape, are you going to get rid of their ugliness? Are you going to restore them to what they were before?"

"Well, that's a rather delicate question," said the magician, "you know, they're the only ones who think they used to be so pretty. They say they've become ugly, but I don't say so. Lots of people can say they've changed." It looks nicer instead.” "Are they all very self-important?" "That's what they are. At least that's what Boss Boo is. He's taught the others to be that way. They always believe everything he says." "We all see that," said Lucy. "Yeah—we'd be better off without him, arguably. Of course, I could turn him into something else, or put a spell on him so they wouldn't believe a word of him. But I don't Willing to do it. Better to let them admire him than to admire no one at all."

"Don't they admire you?" asked Lucy. "Well, it's not my turn," said the magician, "they don't want to admire me." "Why do you make them ugly - I mean, what they call ugly?" "Well, they don't want to do what I tell them to do. Their job is to tend the garden, and grow food--not for me, as they think, but for themselves. If I don't make them do it, They don't want to do it at all. Of course water is necessary to tend the garden. There's a beautiful spring about half a mile up the hill, and from that spring there's a little stream that runs right through the garden. I just want them to get water from that stream, and use it. It’s not like they carry buckets two or three times a day, climb up to the mountain spring to fetch water, and come back exhausted, not to mention that half of the water was spilled on the way. But they don’t understand it, and in the end they simply refuse to quit.”

"Are they that stupid?" asked Lucy. The magician sighed: "You won't believe the trouble they caused me. Two or three months ago, they all went to wash the dishes and knives before meals. Wash it again. Once they were digging the ground, and I saw them planting boiled potatoes, which they said they would not cook until they were eaten. One day the cat slipped into the milkhouse, and they sent out twenty men to get the milk out; Man thought of throwing the cat out. Ah, I see you're done. Let's go see what these chumps look like now." They went into another room, full of incomprehensible instruments and instruments, polished--such as astrolabe for determining the position of celestial bodies, orrery, instantaneous meter for measuring speed, verse calculation table, verse calculation Watches, theodolites, and so on—they went to the window, and the magician said, "Look, here's the fool you're looking at."—

"I can't see anyone," said Lucy. "What are those mushroom things?" She meant something that covered flat grass.It does look like a mushroom, but much bigger—the stem is about three feet high, and the cap is about the same diameter.She took a closer look, only to see that the stalk and the cover of the mushroom were not connected in the middle, but on one side, which looked asymmetrical.At the base of each stalk there was something - a sort of little bundle - lying on the grass.In fact, the more these things look less like mushrooms.As she thought at the beginning, the lid part is not really round, the straight side is longer than the horizontal side, and one end is wider.There are many.There are about fifty more.

The clock struck three. Suddenly a strange thing happened.Every "mushroom" suddenly turned upside down.The little bundle attached to the base turned out to be the head and the body, and the handles turned out to be the legs, but not every body had two legs.There is only one thick leg under each body, and it does not grow on one side like a one-legged person. At the bottom of the leg is an extremely large foot-a thick-toed foot with slightly raised toes, which looks like a human body. A small canoe.In a moment she understood why they looked like mushrooms.They had been lying flat on their backs, each with his single leg stretched out straight up toward the sky, with his big foot stretched just above his body.She learned afterwards that this was their usual way of resting; and since the foot provided shade from the rain as well as the sun, the Cycloped lay under his feet almost as if in a tent.

"Oh, it's funny, it's funny," Lucy laughed loudly, "did you make them like this?" "Yes, yes, I turned these fools into monopods," said the magician, and he laughed too, until the tears ran down his cheeks. "But look," he said again. It's worth a look.Of course these little one-legged men can't walk and run like us.They hop around like fleas or frogs.How they danced!—as if each big foot were a mass of springs.They jumped down hard enough; it was the same thumping sound that had puzzled Lucy yesterday.Now they're bouncing around in all directions, yelling at each other, "Hey buddy! We're showing up again." "We're out," said a man in a red tasseled hat, apparently the leader of the Monopods. "I mean, the guys are out, so we can see each other." "Oh, you're right, you're right, sir," cried the others in unison, "you've hit the nail on the head. Nobody's as clear as you. You can't get it right." "That little girl caught the old man off guard. She's good at it," said the Cyclopedal chief. "We've tricked him this time." "That's what we're going to say," they all sang in unison. "You're better than ever, boss. Go on, go on." "But how dare they say that about you?" said Lucy. "They seemed afraid of you yesterday. Don't they know you might hear them?" "That's another funny thing about those fools," said the magician. "One minute they make me sound like I'm in charge, eavesdropping on everything, and dangerous. And the next they think they're tricks that a baby boy can see through." could have fooled me - my God!" "Must they go back to their old ways?" asked Lucy. "Well, I hope it's not unnatural to let them be like that. Do they really care much? They seem to be quite happy. Why--look at that dance." Bouncing around. What did they look like before?" "Ordinary dwarfs," he said, "are much worse than your Narnian dwarfs." "It's a pity to turn them back," said Lucy. "They're funny, and pretty good. Do you think it would make any difference if I told them?" "If you can get them through to it—I'm sure it will make a difference." "Would you like to try it with me?" "No, no, I'm not there, but it's much better if you say it." "Thank you for inviting me to dinner." Lucy said, turning around and leaving quickly.She ran down the stairs, which she had been going up that morning in a state of agitation, and bumped into Edmund downstairs, where the others were waiting with him, and Lucy saw the anxious faces of all, Knowing that I have forgotten them for a long time, it is not because of restlessness. "It's all right," she cried, "it's all right. The Magician is a good man. I saw him—Aslan." After speaking, she walked into the garden like a gust of wind.The ground in the garden was vibrated by the one-legged jump, and all around they could hear their shouts.When they saw her, they danced and screamed even more vigorously. "Here she comes, she comes," they cried. "Three cheers for the little girl. Ah! She's got the old gentleman completely out of the way, out of it." "We're very sorry," said the Chief Monopod, "that you couldn't show us what we looked like when we weren't ugly. Because you wouldn't believe the difference, it's true, and there's no need to deny it, we're really ugly now, So we will never lie to you." "Oh, you're right, sir, you're right," echoed the others, bouncing high like a lot of toy balloons, "you're right, you're right." "But I don't think you're ugly at all," cried Lucy, at the top of her voice so that everyone could hear, "I think you're very pretty." "She's right, she's right," said the Monopod, "you're right, miss. We're very pretty. You can't find anyone more beautiful." They said without surprise, as if Didn't notice they had changed their minds. "She's saying," said the Chief Cycloped, "how pretty we all were before we were ugly." "Well said, sir, well said," cried the others again and again, "that's what she said. We heard it with our own ears." "I didn't say that," cried Lucy, "I meant you're very pretty now." "She said that, she said that," said the Chief Cycloped, "that we were very pretty." "They're both right, they're both right," said Cycloped, "you see, what a couple. Always right. They couldn't have been better." "But we two said exactly the opposite," said Lucy, stamping her foot impatiently. "It's true, that's what she means, that's what she means," said the Cycloped. "Not at all the opposite. Go on, both of you." "You guys are really good at pestering people. You are crazy about pestering people." Lucy stopped talking after speaking.But Uniped seemed content, and she concluded at once that the conversation had been largely successful. Something happened before everyone went to bed that night, which made them more satisfied with their one-legged status quo.Caspian and all the Narnians got back to shore as quickly as they could, and informed Reines and the rest of the Dawn Treader, who were all in a hurry.Of course the one-legged ones went with them, of course, bouncing around like footballs, singing loudly to each other, until Eustace said, "I wish the wizard hadn't made them invisible." , but become silent." (He regretted it immediately after he finished speaking, because at this time he had to explain to them that being silent is not being able to hear, and although he had spent a lot of time talking, he was still not at all sure Curious if he really got it, and it annoyed him especially when they came and said, "Well, he can't do what he wants like our chief. But you'll know, young man. Listen to the chief." Well. He'll teach you how to talk. Look, what a talker!") When they all got to the beach, Reepicheep had a brilliant idea.It had put down its raft long ago, and was still sitting in it rowing the oars, and the Cyclops watched with great interest.So he stood up in the raft and said, "My dear and wise Mr. One Leg, you don't need a boat. Each of you has one foot for a boat. Just jump on the water as lightly as you can, and see what happens." " The Monopod leader huddled back, warning the others that they would see that the water was drenched, but one or two younger ones tried it almost at once, and then a few more followed, and finally all They all went into the water.The Uniped's big foot could have been a natural raft or boat, and Reepicheep taught them to cut a rough oar for themselves, and they all paddled around the Dawn Treader around the bay, It looked like a fleet of small canoes, with a fat dwarf standing at the stern of each canoe.They also hold competitions, and put bottles of wine on the big ship as prizes for them. The sailors lie on the side of the big ship and watch them, laughing so hard that their stomachs ache. Those fools were also very happy to have the new name of Monopod, and although they couldn't pronounce it right at all, it seemed to them that it was a great name. "That's what we call it," they yelled. "One-horned, one-horned, one-horned. We call ourselves what we call ourselves." But in an instant they were calling it the old man. The name "Stupid" got mixed up, and I finally settled on the name after calling it "Stupid Melon": this name will probably last for hundreds of years. ' That night all the Narnian guests were upstairs dining with the Wizard, and Lucy noticed how different the whole upstairs was, and now she was no longer afraid.The cryptic symbol on the door was still mysterious, but now it seemed kind and friendly, and even the mirror with the beard didn't look scary now, but funny and funny.During the banquet, everyone relied on the power of magic to taste their favorite food and drink.After dinner, the magician performed another very practical and wonderful magic.He spread two blank sheets of parchment on the table, and asked Drinian to give him an accurate account of the entire voyage up to the present: as Drinian spoke, all the details he said were clearly displayed on one side of the paper, and finally each piece of paper It has become a wonderful map of the East Ocean, marking Galma, Tribenzia, the Seven Islands, the Lonely Islands, Dragon Island, Fire Island, Dead Water Island, and the place where the fool lives. The size, location, and direction are all exactly the same .It was the first map ever made of that sea, and it was much better than any since then without magic.Because the towns and mountains marked on these two maps are exactly the same as ordinary maps at first glance, but after the magician lent them a magnifying glass, it can be seen that they are the prototypes of the real originals, so you can see narrow areas. The castle, the slave market, and the streets in Hong Kong, although far away, are very clear, just like things seen from the other end of a telescope.The only flaw is that the coastlines of most of the islands are incomplete, since the map only shows what Drinian saw with his own eyes.When the map was completed, the magician kept one for himself, and gave the other to Caspian, and it still hangs in the Cair Paravel's instrument-house.But the magician could not tell them the conditions of the sea and land further east.However, he told them that seven years ago a Narnia ship sailed into the sea where he was, and there were Lords Ravellian, Argoz, Mavramon, and Rope on board, so they deduced that they saw lying on the boat. The golden man in the stagnant water must be Lord Restima. The next day, the magician used magic to repair the stern of the Dawn Treader that was damaged by the sea snake, and filled the ship with useful gifts.Everyone was very friendly when we parted, and when we set sail at two o'clock in the afternoon, all the idiots followed the boat to the port with oars, and cheered until the boat couldn't hear their cheers.