And then the last battle of the last King of Narnia began. What made it hopeless， even apart from the numbers of the enemy， was the spears. The Calormenes who had been with the Ape almost from the beginning had had no spears： that was because they had come into Narnia by ones and twos， pretending to be peaceful merchants， and of course they had carried no spears for a spear is not a thing you can hide. The new ones must have come in later， after the Ape was already strong and they could march openly. The spears made all the difference. With a long spear you canill a boar before you are in reach of his tusks and a unicorn efore you are in reach of his horn； if you are very quick and eep your head. And now the levelled spears were closing on Tirian and his last friends. Next minute they were allghting for their lives.
In a way it wasn‘t quite so bad as you might think. When ou are using every muscle to the full.ducking under a pear.point here， leaping over it there， lunging forward， rawing back， wheeling round.you haven’t much time to el either frightened or sad.