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“I’d give my beard，”whispered Poggin，“to know whether that brute is only acting or whether it has really found something in there that frightened it!”
“Peace，friend，”said Tirian，for the Captain and the Ape were also whispering and he wanted to hear what they said. He did not succeed，except that he heard the Ape once more whimpering“My head，my head，”but he got the idea that those two were almost as puzzled by the cat’s behaviour as himself．
“Now，Ginger，”said the Captain.“Enough of that noise. Tell them what thou hast seen.”
“Aii-Aii-Aaow-Awah，”screamed the Cat．
“Art thou not called a Talking Beast ？”said the Captain.“Then hold thy devilish noise and talk.”
What followed was rather horrible. Tirian felt quite certain and so did the others that the Cat was trying to say something：but nothing came out of his mouth except the ordinary，ugly cat-noises you might hear from any angry or frightened old Tom in a backyard in England. And the longer he caterwauled the less like a Talking Beast he looked. Uneasy whimperings and little sharp squeals broke out from among the other Animals．
“Look，look!”said the voice of the Bear.“It can’t talk. It has forgotten how to talk! It has gone back to being a dumb beast. Look at its face.”Everyone saw that it was true. And then the greatest terror of all fell upon those Narnians. For every one of them had been taught-when only a chick or a puppy or a cub-how Aslan at the beginning of the world had turned the beasts of Narnia into Talking Beasts and warned them that if they weren’t good they might one day be turned back again and be like the poor witless animals one meets in other countries.“And now it is coming upon us，”they moaned．
“Mercy! Mercy!”wailed the Beasts.“Spare us，Lord Shift， stand between us and Aslan，you must always go in and speak to him for us. We daren’t，we daren’t.”
Ginger disappeared further up into the tree. No one ever saw him again．
