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s，but clean and fresh and deep when they had cleared these away．The remains of a stone pavement ran half-way round it．Then the girls went out to pick some more apples and the boys built the fire，on the dais and fairly close to the corner between two walls，which they thought would be the snuggest and warmest place．They had great difficulty in lighting it and used a lot of matches，but they succeeded in the end．Finally，all four sat down with their backs to the wall and their faces to the fire．They tried roasting some of the apples on the ends of sticks．But roast apples are not much good without sugar，and they are too hot to eat with your fingers till they are too cold to be worth eating．So they had to content themselves with raw apples，which，as Edmund said，made one realize that school suppers weren’t so bad after all—“I shouldn’t mind a good thick slice of bread and margarine this minute，”he added．But the spirit of adventure was rising in them all，and no one really wanted to be back at sc
