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Chapter IThe Picture in the BedroomThere was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved
it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him
Scrubb. I can\'t tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had
none. He didn\'t call his Father and Mother \"Father\" and \"Mother\", but
Harold and Alberta. They were very up–to–date and advanced people.
They were vegetarians, non–smokers and teetotallers and wore a special
kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture
and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead
and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were books of information
and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing
exercises in model schools.Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies, Peter, Susan,
Edmund and Lucy. But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and
Lucy were coming to stay. For deep down inside him he liked bossing
and bullying; and, though he was a puny little person who couldn\'t have
stood up even to Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a fight, he knew that there
are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own
home and they are only visitors.Edmund and Lucy did not at all want to come and stay with Uncle Harold
and Aunt Alberta. But it really couldn\'t be helped. Father had got a
job lecturing in America for sixteen weeks that summer, and Mother was
to go with him because she hadn\'t had a real holiday for ten years.
Peter was working very hard for an exam and he was to spend the
holidays being coached by old Professor Kirke in whose house these four
children had had wonderful adventures long ago in the war years. If he
had still been in that house he would have had them all to stay. But
he had somehow become poor since the old days and was living in a small
cottage with only one bedroom to spare. It would have cost too much
money to take the other three all to America, and Susan had gone.
Grown–ups thought her the pretty one of the family and she was no good
at school work (though otherwise very old for her age) and Mother said
she \"would get far more out of a trip to America than the youngsters\".
Edmund and Lucy tried not to grudge Susan her luck, but it was dreadful
having to spend the summer holidays at their Aunt\'s. \"But it\'s far
worse for me,\" said Edmund, \"because you\'ll at least have a room of
your own and I shall have to share a bedroom with that record stinker,
Eustace.\"The story begins on an afternoon when Edmund and Lucy were stealing a
few precious minutes alone together. And of course they were talking
about Narnia, which was the name of their own private and secret
country. Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of
us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than
other people in that respect. Their secret country was real. They had
already visited it twice; not in a game or a dream, but in reality.
They had got there of course by Magic, which is the only way of getting
to Narnia. And a promise, or very nearly a promise, had been made them
in Narnia itself that they would some day get back. You may imagine
that they talked about it a good deal, when they got the chance.They were in Lucy\'s room, sitting on the edge of her bed and looking at
a picture on the opposite wall. It was the only picture in the house
that they liked. Aunt Alberta didn\'t like it at all (that was why it
was put away in a little back room upstairs), but she couldn\'t get rid
of it because it had been a wedding present from someone she did not
want to offend.It was a picture of a ship
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