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“Oh no,”said Orruns. “They got up before it was light.”
“Then they must have waited the dickens of a time for breakfast,”said Eustace.
“No，they didn’t,”said Orruns. “They began eating the minute they awoke.”
“Golly ！”said Eustace.“Do they eat a very big breakfast ？”
“Why，Son of Adam，don’t you understand ？ A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omelette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he attends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash，some oats，and a bag of sugar. That’s why it’s such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weekend. A very serious thing indeed.”
At that moment there was a sound of horse-hoofs tapping on rock from the mouth of the cave，and the children looked up. The two Centaurs，one with a black and one with a gol
