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"No, we're not, honestly we're not," said Polly hastily. "We're not at all nice to eat."

"There!" said the Mole. "They can talk. Who ever heard of a talking lettuce?"

"Perhaps they're the Second joke," suggested the Jackdaw.

A Panther, which had been washing its face, stopped for a moment to say, "Well, if they

are, they're nothing like so good as the first one. At least, 1 don't see anything very funny

about them." It yawned and went on with its wash.

"Oh, please," said Digory. "I'm in such a hurry. I want to see the Lion."

All this time the Cabby had been trying to catch Strawberry's eye. Now he did. "Now,

Strawberry, old boy," he said. "You know me. You ain't going to stand there and say as

you don't know me."

"What's the Thing talking about, Horse?" said several voices.

"Well," said Strawberry very slowly, "I don't exactly know, I think most of us don't know

much about any

thing yet. But I've a sort of idea I've seen a thing like this before. I've a feeling I lived

somewhere else - or was something else - before Aslan woke us all up a few minutes ago.

It's all very muddled. Like a dream. But there were things like these three in the dream."

"What?" said the Cabby. "Not know me? Me what used to bring you a hot mash of an

evening when you was out of sorts? Me what rubbed you down proper? Me what never

forgot to put your cloth on you if you was standing in the _ cold? I wouldn't 'ave thought

it of you, Strawberry."

"It does begin to come back," said the Horse thoughtfully. "Yes. Let me think now, let me

think. Yes, you used to tie a horrid black thing behind me and then hit me to make me

run, and however far I ran this black thing would always be coming rattle-rattle behind

me."

"We 'ad our living to earn, see," said the Cabby. "Yours the same as mine. And if there

'adn't been no work and no whip there'd 'ave been no stable, no hay, no mash, and no

oats. For you did get a taste of oats when I could afford 'em, which no one can deny."

"Oats?" said the Horse, pricking up his ears. "Yes, I remember something about that. Yes,

I remember more and more. You were always sitting up somewhere behind, and I was

always running in front, pulling you and the black thing. I know I did all the work."

"Summer, I grant you," said the Cabby. " 'Ot work for you and a cool seat for me. But

what about winter, old boy, when you was keeping yourself warm and I was sitting up