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ht for a year and a day afterwards. He spoke of Moonwood the Hare who had such ears that he could sit by Caldron Pool under the thunder of the great waterfall and hear what men spoke in whispers at Cair Paravel. He told how King Gale,who was ninth in descent from Frank the first of all Kings,had sailed far away into the Eastern seas and delivered the Lone Islanders from a dragon and how,in return,they had given him the Lone Islands to be part of the royal lands of Narnia for ever. He talked of whole centuries in which all Narnia was so happy that notable dances and feasts,or at most tournaments,were the only things that could be remembered,and every day and week had been better than the last. And as he went on,the picture of all those happy years,all the thousands of them,piled up in Jill’s mind till it was rather like looking down from a high hill on to a rich,lovely plain full of woods and waters and cornfields,which spread away and away till it got thin and misty from distance. And