CHAPTER FIVE PUDDLEGLUM（第4/4頁）

When the meal came it was delicious and the children had two large helpings each. At first the Marsh-wiggle wouldn’t believe that they really liked it，and when they had eaten so much that he had to believe them，he fell back on saying that it would probably disagree with them horribly. “What’s food for wiggles may be poison for humans，I shouldn’t wonder,”he said. After the meal they had tea，in tins（as you’ve seen men having it who are working on the road），and Puddleglum had a good many sips out of a square black bottle. He offered the children some of it，but they thought it very nasty.

The rest of the day was spent in preparations for an early start tomorrow morning. Puddleglum，being far the biggest， said he would carry three blankets，with a large bit of bacon rolled up inside them. Jill was to carry the remains of the eels，some biscuit，and the tinder-box. Scrubb was to carry both his own cloak and Jill’s when they didn’t want to wear them. Scrubb （who had learned some shooting when he sailed to the East under Caspian）had Puddleglum’s secondbest bow，and Puddleglum had his best one；though he said that what with winds，and damp bowstrings，and bad light，and cold fingers，it was a hundred to one against either of them hitting anything. He and Scrubb both had swords—Scrubb had brought the one which had been left out for him in his room at Cair Paravel，but Jill had to be content with her knife. There would have been a quarrel about this，but as soon as they started sparring the wiggle rubbed his hands and said，“Ah， there you are. I thought as much. That’s what usually happens on adventures.”This made them both shut up.

All three went to bed early in the wigwam. This time the children really had a rather bad night. That was because Puddleglum，after saying，“You’d better try for some sleep，you two；not that I suppose any of us will close an eye tonight,”instantly went off into such a loud，continuous snore that，when Jill at last got to sleep，she dreamed all night about road-drills and waterfalls and being in express trains in tunnels.