So they lived in great joy and if ever they remembered their life in this world it was only as one remembers a dream. And one year it fell out that Tumnus （who was a middle.aged Faun by now and beginning to be stout） came down river and brought them news that the White Stag had once more appeared in his parts.the White Stag who would give you wishes if you caught him. So these two Kings and two Queens with the principal members of their court， rode a.hunting with horns and hounds in the Western Woods to follow the White Stag. And they had not hunted long before they had a sight of him. And he led them a great pace over rough and smooth and through thick and thin， till the horses of all the courtiers were tired out and thesefour were still following. And they saw the stag enter into a thicket where their horses could not follow. Then said King Peter （for they talked in quite a different style now， having been Kings and Queens for so long）， “Fair Consorts， let us now alight from our horses and follow this beast into the thicket； for in all my days I never hunted a nobler quarry.”
“Sir，” said the others， “even so let us do.”
