This owl imitated Trumpkin’s voice rather well， and there were sounds of owlish laughter all round. The childrenegan to see that the Narnians all felt about Trumpkin as eople feel at school about some crusty teacher， whom veryone is a little afraid of and everyone makes fun of and obody really dislikes.
“How long is the King going to be away？” asked Scrubb. “If only we knew！” said Glimfeather. “You see， there has een a rumour lately that Aslan himself has been seen in he islands.in Terebinthia， I think it was. And the King aid he would make one more attempt before he died to ee Aslan face to face again， and ask his advice about who is o be King after him. But we‘re all afraid that， if he doesn’t eet Aslan in Terebinthia， he‘ll go on east， to Seven Isles nd Lone Islands.and on and on. He never talks about it， ut we all know he has never forgotten that voyage to the orld’s end. I‘m sure in his heart of hearts he wants to go here again.”
“Then there’s no good waiting for him to come back？” aid Jill.
“No， no good，” said the Owl. “Oh， what a to.do！ If only ou two had known and spoken to him at once！ He‘d have rranged everything.probably given you an army to go ith you in search of the Prince.”