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e no longer dumb and witless,you need not always be grave.For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
So they all let themselves go.And there was such merriment that the Jackdaw himself plucked up courage again and perched on the cab-horse’s head,between its ears,clapping its wings,and said:
“Aslan ! Aslan ! Have I made the first joke ? Will
everybody always be told how I made the first joke ?”
“No,little friend,”said the Lion.“You have not made the first joke;you have only been the first joke.”Then everyone laughed more than ever;but the Jackdaw didn’t mind and laughed just as loud till the horse shook its head and the Jackdaw lost its balance and fell off,but remembered its wings(they were still new to it)before it reached the ground.
“And now,”said Aslan,“Narnia is established.We must next take thought for keeping it safe.I will call some of you to my council.Come hither to me,you the chief Dwarf,and you the River-god,and you Oak and the He-