Chapter 1

THe killing of another living thing is too much for him at that point in the novel.

This isn't a chapter one question, and unless my memory is getting awfully bad, there isn't a piglet in the story!

Aslan............. do you have a page number for that; I am sitting with the novel in front of me............ I haven't found a piglet! I'm either blind or brain dead!

Aslan............. do you have a page number for that; I am sitting with the novel in front of me............ I haven't found a piglet! I'm either blind or brain dead!

"They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; .."Pg. 31 Chapter 1 in my copy.

Got it!

They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Its voice was thin, needle-sharp and insistent; The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and thecreepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose from

the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. They were left looking at each other and the place of terror. Jack’s face was white under the freckles. He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down replacing the blade in the sheath. Then they all three laughed ashamedly and began to climb back to the track.