Chapter 1 Lucy looks into the wardrobe

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Once there were four children whose names are Peter, Susan, Edmund and lucy. This story is about something happened to them when they were sent away from london during a war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife, he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. ( Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much). He himself was an very old man with shaggy white hair, which grew most of his face as well as his head, and they liked him almost at once; but in the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd--looking that lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.

As soon as they had said good night to the professor and goes upstairs on the first night , to boys came into the girls room and they all talked it over.

"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake" Said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."

"I think he is an old dear" said Susan.

"Oh come off it!" said Edmund. who was tried and pretending not to be tried. Which mead him bad - tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."

"Like what?" said Susan. "And anyway, it's time you were in bed."

"Trying to talk like Mother" said Edmund. " And who are you to say when I'm to go to bed ? Go to bed yourself."

"Hadn't we all better go to bed" said lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we're headed talking here."

"No there won't " said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house, where no one's going to mind what we do. Anyways , They won't hear as. It's about ten minutes' walk from here down to that dinning room, any amount of stairs and passages in between."

"What's that noise?"said lucy suddenly. It was a far larger house then she had ever been in before and the thought of all those long passages and rows of doors leading to the empty rooms was beginning to make her feel a little creepy.

"It's only a Bird, 🕊️ silly" Said Edmund.

"It's an owl 🦉" said Peter."This is going to be a wonderful place for Bird's. I shall go to bed now, I say, let's go and explore tomorrow you might find anything in a place like this. Did you see those mountains as we came along? And the woods? There might be stags. there might be eagles. There'll be hawks.

The story will continue 😊😊😊

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