It was， however， clear to everyone that Eustace‘s character ad been rather improved by becoming a dragon. He was nxious to help. He flew over the whole island and found was all mountainous and inhabited only by wild goats nd droves of wild swine. Of these he brought back many arcasses as provisions for this ship. He was a very humane iller too， for he could dispatch a beast with one blow of is tail so that it didn’t know （and presumably still doesn‘t now） it had been killed. He ate a few himself， of course， ut always alone， for now that he was a dragon he liked his ood raw but he could never bear to let others see him at is messy meals. And one day， flying slowly and wearily but great triumph， he bore back to camp a great tall pine ee which he had torn up by the roots in a distant valley nd which could be made into a capital mast. And in the vening if it turned chilly， as it sometimes did after the eavy rains， he was a comfort to everyone， for the whole arty would come and sit with their backs against his hot des and get well warmed and dried； and one puff of his ery breath would light the most obstinate fire. Sometimeshe would take a select party for a fly on his back， so that they could see wheeling below them the green slopes， the rocky heights， the narrow pit.like valleys and far out over the sea to the eastward a spot of darker blue on the blue horizon which might be land.
