the chronicles of narnia the magician's nephew

This allowed him to tell his former owner, Frank, how unpleasant his life as a cab-horse had been. Thus Strawberry was the one who first (accidentally) chose Narnia as a destination world, starting all contact between Earth and Narnia.ĭuring the creation of Narnia, Strawberry was chosen as one of the first talking beasts by Aslan, giving him the power of speech. The pool was a portal to the newly created world of Narnia, and the whole party was transported there. In the Wood, because he was thirsty, he wandered to the nearest pool of water, pulling the rest of the party with him, and attempted to take a drink. Strawberry turning into the winged horse, Fledge. But because everyone had been touching one another at the time, they had also accidentally transported Strawberry, Frank and Andrew Ketterley into the Wood with them as well. While everyone was trying to apprehend Jadis, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer grabbed hold of her heel, and transported them all to the Wood between the Worlds. However, Jadis had by then leaped onto the horse's back, and said some things to madden him, causing him to start galloping on.Įventually, they were stopped by the police, and Frank tried to calm him down, while trying to get Jadis off him, only for her to call him a dog, and that Strawberry was now her Royal Charger.

They came to a stop, though, when the woman, Jadis, crashed the cab into a lamp-post. In 1900, while he was at work drawing his cab, a strange woman suddenly took him from his owner, and began whipping him harshly, forcing him to quickly gallop through the streets of London. His owner, Frank the cabman (later Frank I of Narnia) used him to pull a Hansom cab in London. His sire was an officer's charger in the English cavalry. Mervyn Stutter (Focus on the Family radio theatre)įledge, originally named Strawberry on Earth, was once Frank the Cabby's horse, and later the first Flying Horse of Narnia.īorn a dumb horse in England, Fledge was originally named Strawberry.

The chronicles of narnia the magician's nephew