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ve forgotten that funny old Lilygloves,the chief mole,leaning on his spade and saying,Believe me,your Majesty,you’ll be glad of these fruit trees one day. And by Jove he was right.”
“I do! I do!”said Lucy,and clapped her hands.
“But look here,Peter,”said Edmund.“This must be all rot.To begin with,we didn’t plant the orchard slap up against the gate.We wouldn’t have been such fools.”
“No,of course not,”said Peter.“But it has grown up to the gate since.”
“And for another thing,”said Edmund,“Cair Paravel wasn’t on an island.”
“Yes,I’ve been wondering about that.But it was a what-do-you-call-it,a peninsula.Jolly nearly an island.Couldn’t it have been made an island since our time? Somebody has dug a channel.”
“But half a moment!”said Edmund.“You keep on saying since our time.But it’s only a year ago since we came back from Narnia.And you want to make out that in one year castles have fallen down,and great forests have grown up,and little trees we s